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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...
Some twenty days of hard work by the Rumanian Foreign Office ended last week when effeminate Count Alexander ("Lexel") von Hochberg, descendant of the ancient and glorious Piast Kings of Poland, son of the German Prince of Pless, at last-in the words of the official Rumanian communique-"consented to permit the breaking of his engagement with H. R. H. Princess Ileana of Rumania" (TIME...
...ballots, 200 being polled for Count Bninski (Right), and 1 for M. Marek (Socialist), with 63 Deputies abstaining - mostly from the White Russian, Slav, National Workers, and Piast (Peasant) parties...
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