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...port of Gdansk. Four years ago, the outspoken electrician had scaled the shipyard gates and assumed the leadership of a strike that gave birth to Solidarity, the Communist bloc's first independent trade union. Solidarity was officially suspended in 1981, when the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and detained most of the union's leaders. But as Walesa and his fellow workers showed last Friday, the anniversary of the 1980 Gdansk agreement that legally recognized the union, the spirit of Solidarity was still alive...
...government's decision last July to free 652 political prisoners. The Jaruzelski regime was taking a calculated risk in hopes of boosting its credibility at home and abroad. So far, the gamble has paid off: not only has the U.S. relaxed some of the sanctions it imposed after martial law, but the freed prisoners have shown little of the radicalism espoused during the heady days of Solidarity...
...based partly on the need to take stock of new realities in Poland. Said Jacek Kuron, a leader of the dissident intellectual group KOR: "To make any political evaluations [now] would be irresponsible. The only perspective I have had is that of prison." Moreover, the sometimes bloody experience of martial law has taught dissidents the futility of opposing head-on a regime backed by tanks and guns. "We have learned our lesson," said Seweryn Jaworski, once the vice chairman of Solidarity's Warsaw-based Mazowsze chapter. "We will no longer play into their hands. We know we cannot beat...
...Reagan Administration offered a modest olive branch to Poland last week. Encouraged by Warsaw's decision to free 652 political prisoners, the U.S. decided to lift some of the sanctions it had applied after Polish leaders imposed martial law in 1981. LOT, the Polish airline, will again be permitted to land in the U.S., and scientific exchanges between the two countries will be resumed. Moreover, if the Polish government completely carries out the announced amnesty, the U.S. will go one additional step: it will withdraw its opposition to Poland's desire for membership in the International Monetary Fund...
...violent clashes shattered Marcos' attempt to establish an atmosphere of calm. In a conciliatory speech to the assembly, Marcos promised that martial law would not be reintroduced. Under Amendment Six to the Constitution, the President can bypass the assembly in making crucial decisions during a state of national emergency. The President pointedly warned opposition assemblymen that the country faced a threat of armed insurrection from the outlawed Communist New People's Army. For weeks, defense forces have been waging widely publicized raids on N.P.A. strongholds in the countryside, partly to create public support for the government; Marcos...