Word: pakulski
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...building at the University of Lodz, eleven student strike leaders and four government negotiators faced each other over two green cloth-covered tables. On one wall hung a six-foot white paper cross; on the others posters bearing slogans of protest and defiance. At 4 p.m. Sociology Student Krzysztof Pakulski began to read a complicated agreement that had been hammered out and haggled over during two weeks of often hot-tempered negotiations, and which now signaled the end of a spreading student strike. When the accord was signed an hour later, triumphant cheers erupted from the 800 students assembled...
...Pakulski snatched the 45-page document from Higher Education Minister Janusz Gorski, jumped up on the table and waved it over his head like a captured battle flag. The strikers then picked up their sleeping bags, guitars and posters and peacefully left the building they had occupied for 28 days. "We have won," declared Pakulski. "But it is also a success for the government...