Word: onyszkiewicz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astounding admission of defeat--two days before the official results of Sunday's voting were to be released--came in a statement at the start of the evening newscast by party spokesperson Jan Bisztyga, who was shown sitting at the elbow of Solidarity national spokesperson Janusz Onyszkiewicz...
...time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated." Declared Janusz Onyszkiewicz, another former Solidarity leader: "This is simply a campaign to diminish the sympathy that the U.S. Administration enjoys in Poland...
...approached the plaque designating the place from which 300,000 Polish Jews were transported from Warsaw to Nazi death camps. After flowers were laid at the memorial, armed militiamen ordered the gathering to leave on the ground that "it is not an official occasion." They arrested Solidarity Spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz, who had pointedly told the crowd that "if the heroes of the ghetto lived today, we firmly believe they would join us in our fight for freedom, truth and human dignity...
...might have little choice but to move against them. But the bitter verbal attacks from Moscow and Warsaw made it difficult for union leaders to back down without losing face-and possibly weakening their control over Solidarity's 9.5 million rank-and-file members. Said Solidarity Spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz: "There is enough fuel now to start up everybody...
...hours until, as planned, a two-hour strike staged by hundreds of thousands of people closed virtually every office and workshop in the city, with the exception of essential services. Before the trucks and buses finally dispersed to the roar of blaring horns and sirens, Solidarity Spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz issued a final taunt to the government: "Those who are afraid of their nation should stay locked up and not disturb us any more...