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...vowed Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa 16 months ago, when asked about the danger of Soviet intervention. He was right, even though the last important strike or sit-in against Poland's three-week-old martial law regime ended at the Piast mine in Silesia last week when 1,100 weary and hungry workers decided to give up their demonstration after occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin, dockworkers were reported to be loading and unloading the same goods over and over again; at the Zeran auto...
...year began, the government announced that nine Solidarity leaders had been given prison sentences of up to seven years for organizing strikes or engaging in other illegal activities. The government also dismissed 90 provincial officials for failing to carry out their duties effectively under martial law. Responding to the challenge of passive resistance, the authorities distributed red-and-black posters calling on Poles to support the military regime by working hard. "Help the forces of law-and-order combat anarchy and lawlessness," declared the signs...
...Follow meticulously the most ridiculous instructions." Every worker, it concluded, should remember these words: "I know only what I need to know." Nobody outside Poland knows to what extent these opposition efforts are succeeding, but even the government admitted last week that production has declined since the imposition of martial...
Outwardly, at least, Poland was calmer than at any time since martial law was imposed. Poles from the countryside told a TIME correspondent that their villages had never really been touched by martial law. But most Poles were still unable to move freely outside the region in which they live, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. Every evening at 10:45 the streets and highways were suddenly transformed into speedways as thousands of Poles rushed toward home to beat the 11 p.m. curfew. A considerable number-5,500 according to the government, and as many as ten times that...
Archbishop Luigi Poggi, a Vatican diplomat-at-large whose primary function is to maintain contact between the Holy See and the Polish government, returned to Rome following a week-long visit to Poland. While there, he had met with Jaruzelski and delivered a papal message urging an end to martial law. Poggi professed to see "some rays of hope" and even "the possibility of a reconciliation." Mediation with the Jaruzelski regime is being conducted not by the church directly but through a "social council" made up of Catholic laymen. Among them is a close friend of the Pope, Jerzy Turowicz...