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...year ago this week, Poles were still adjusting to the rigors of martial law. They could not travel, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. More than 5,000 people were interned, the independent Solidarity union was suspended and its leader, Lech Walesa, was being held at a government complex outside Warsaw. During twelve months of martial law, General Wojciech Jaruzelski has succeeded beyond most people's expectations in crushing the overt opposition to Communist rule in Poland. As a sign of its self-confidence, the government last week announced that it was releasing all but seven...
...rumbled through the streets of Polish cities following the anniversary. In Gdansk, the birthplace of the now illegal independent union Solidarity, paramilitary ZOMOS concentrated on sealing off access to the downtown area. In a symbolic confirmation of their victory over Solidarity, the authorities detained the union's leader, Lech Walesa, 39, who had been released from eleven months of government detention only a month...
While Jaruzelski raged, onetime Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released last month from detention, tried to keep out of the public eye. He has written to Jaruzelski, reportedly asking for permission to make a speech at a wreath-laying ceremony at Gdansk this week commemorating Polish workers killed in riots twelve years ago. Walesa will have to choose his words carefully, knowing that any criticism of the government might land him in detention again...
...self-assurance was reflected in its treatment of Walesa's release. A planned television interview with Walesa was unceremoniously shelved, and newspaper reports were limited to nine lines on an inside page. Said Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban: "The information is tailored to the scale of the news. Lech Walesa is a private person...
Perhaps, but to many of his supporters Lech Walesa, or "Leszek" as they affectionately call him, is still the man who has become inextricably linked with the word Solidarity. For three days, hundreds of supporters kept a vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with...