Word: ludu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Press censorship has relaxed to the point where Solidarity publishes its own newspaper, and even the official party paper, Trybuna Ludu, reflects a greater degree of objectivity. People in general enjoy more freedom of expression and movement than at any time since the Communist takeover...
...Polish Premier, Walesa assured Radom Union Leader Andrzej Sobieraj that the offending government officials would be dismissed within a few days. Replied Sobieraj: the Radom chapter would postpone its strike plans, if-but only if-those dismissals actually materialized. At week's end, the Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that one official, the Radom party chief, had secretly resigned ten days earlier...
...Communist power in Warsaw. Last week TASS, the official Soviet news agency, said that "anti-Soviet opposition forces" in Poland increased in the past week and that "the unions are trying to destroy Socialism." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star pointedly reprinted a commentary from Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu warning against the "dangerous game" the Solidarity strikers were playing. Prague's Rude Pravo charged that Walesa had received orders from Pope John Paul II to initiate the latest round of labor unrest...
There were somber reminders, however, that Poland's workers could not expect to wrest many more concessions from the government and the party. In a front-page editorial, the official party daily Trybuna Ludu warned that "the new year will not greet us with prosperity; the decisions to be made will not be accepted by everyone with equal satisfaction." Even New Year's Eve, in fact, was celebrated with unusual sobriety-and without live music. Demanding overtime, the country's pop musicians refused to perform at state-run restaurants and nightclubs...
...same time, the government intensified a propaganda campaign against the strikes. On Wednesday the party daily Trybuna Ludu warned of "national catastrophe" if the walkouts continued and pointedly noted that "our country lies in the direct security zone of the world socialist power-the Soviet Union." Mieczyslaw Rakowski, influential editor of the party periodical Polityka, declared on national television: "I am very frightened. Our country is in a precarious position. Our national survival is at stake...