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...Lech Walesa, leader of the Polish workers, who has championed freedom and the rights of his fellow Poles...
Until last week, Lech Walesa and other union leaders had not been able to rein in Solidarity's rank and file. But in response to the Moscow summit, Solidarity warned its local branches not to strike without its authorization. The next major test of his control could come at week's end with the start of observances marking the tenth anniversary of the 1970 Gdansk riots, in which at least 49 Poles were killed. This symbolic occasion could touch off another bout of labor unrest and perhaps force Moscow's hand...
...Lech Walesa, the Solidarity leader, has had increasing difficulty controlling his unruly rank and file. In recent weeks he has been counseling moderation and discipline, arguing that the union should concentrate on organizing instead of spending itself on a series of local skirmishes. He is also worried that the union may be overplaying its hand. As he told workers in Warsaw last week, with an unmistakable warning about the ominous possibility of Soviet intervention, "It will be a great mess if we go on strike . . . Let us not forget that tanks and rockets could be the reply...
...after a short recess, the judge tacked on some amendments to the original charter. To the dismay of union leaders, he inserted the objectionable clause about party supremacy. In a statement read by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, the union denounced the "arbitrary" revision and vowed to be "guided by the charter without the changes made by the court." Outside the courthouse, Walesa told supporters: "They will not do to us things that we do not want done...
...situation. On American television, such unprecedented coverage may have seemed so much like home as not to appear novel: there stood an American correspondent, mike in hand, talking in front of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk exactly as he might outside a struck factory in Akron. Overnight, Strike Leader Lech Walesa-whose appearances on the state-run Polish television were kept to a minimum-became a familiar American-television face. With the usual American gift for hype, Republicans trotted out Walesa's father, who lives in New Jersey but doesn't speak English, to pose for TV cameras...