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Poles registered their personal protests in many ways last week during the first elections held since martial law was declared in December 1981. Even so, most of the country appears to have participated in the voting for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local councils, despite calls for a boycott...
Disappointed Solidarity supporters charged that the authorities had inflated the figures by 10% to 15%. They claimed, for example, that at one polling station in the industrial city of Nowa Huta the turnout was a mere 10%. One Pole who was a definite no-show at his polling place was...
This meant that voters who dissented from the approved candidates could easily be identified. Few Poles were predicting that the boycott would be successful, but almost no one expected the government to get the 99% turnout common in East bloc elections.
Though the opposition's top figure, Zbigniew Bujak, 29, remained at large, the capture of Lis depressed efforts to organize a boycott of Sunday's elections for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local posts. Lis had led the campaign, urging Poles to deny the military regime of...
Only about 500 supporters answered Scargill's plea for an even bigger turnout the following day. Then Scargill was arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators...