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...star witness in Poland's latest courtroom drama arrived wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the logo of Solidarity, the outlawed labor union he helped found. Lech Walesa had been summoned by the prosecution to testify in the trial of three Solidarity supporters, Bogdan Lis, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Adam Michnik, charged with trying to organize strikes to protest food-price increases. Walesa's testimony was as defiant as his dress. "Three innocent people are in the dock," he told the court...
...Gdansk apartment last week. Sitting alongside former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa were other prominent activists of the banned trade union, which has called for a nationwide 15-minute strike on Feb. 28 to protest a proposed increase in food prices. Among those present: Bogdan Lis of Gdansk, Adam Michnik of Warsaw and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk of Wroclaw...
Thirty minutes after the meeting began, policemen burst into the room. Walesa and Activist Jerzy Trzcinski were allowed to go home; Lis, Michnik and Frasyniuk were put under arrest by the Gdansk prosecutor's office. In all, seven men were charged with attending an illegal meeting. On Saturday, Walesa was summoned to the same prosecutor's office for questioning. After 90 minutes he emerged to say that he had refused to respond to the grilling. Walesa was warned that he too would face charges if he continued to back the proposed strike action. His defiant reply: "Our most important task...
Jaruzelski has another reason for this calculated charity: he hopes that it will persuade Washington to lift the U.S. trade sanctions imposed after martial law took effect. But he may be disappointed if he expects clemency to soften opposition inside Poland. Adam Michnik, 37, one of the quartet on trial, has announced that he does not want amnesty. If Michnik still desires his day in court, he will have to break the law after his release...
...official indictment charged the four men who went on trial in Warsaw last week with conspiring to overthrow the Communist system in Poland. That could mean only one thing: they had collaborated with the banned Solidarity movement. So when Intellectuals Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski appeared before a military tribunal, former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa broke off his summer vacation to travel to Warsaw. Although rows of police prevented Walesa from entering the military courthouse, his presence drew cheers and applause from the crowd that had gathered outside...