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...evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. Says Flamini: "I calculate that at least half the people I talked to in Poland are now under arrest...
...Lech Walesa, the most common of men doing the most uncommon things...
...about the same time, police and soldiers were rounding up union radicals elsewhere. The door of one unionist's apartment was smashed as police pushed their way inside. Additional arrests were made in the Baltic port city of Gdansk, where the ruling committee of Solidarity, including its leader, Lech Walesa, had been in stormy session. Also taken into custody were several former government officials, including former Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. Despite the apparent size of the operation, the news blackout had been planned so carefully that even in the capital, few Poles were aware of what was happening...
MONROE ENGEL will find a kettle of "Fish;" To Lech Walesd a serious wish: For a Poland free, happy and fearless, And a Wojciech Jaruzelski who's quite soon Premier-less. John Dowling will sing untroubled ditties, Once Mendonca and Herrrmannn clear his life of committees. Joe Restic will travel o'er hill and o'er dale, To finally score some points against Yale. Tis too bad that Hubel won't quite rhyme with Nobel; Still for him, Nico and Wiesel a Swedish Noel...
...rumors circulated, the whereabouts of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa remained unclear. Polish officials originally said Walesa was free and had been flown from Gdansk to Warsaw to negotiate and attempt to prevent a general strike...