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At about the same time, police and soldiers were rounding up union radicals elsewhere. The door of one unionist's apartment was smashed as police pushed their way inside. Additional arrests were made in the Baltic port city of Gdansk, where the ruling committee of Solidarity, including its leader...
The regime also suspended work-free Saturdays--a major consession won by Solidarity--and ordered Poles to resume a six-day working week. The government had long wanted to take such action to help lift the country from its economic depression.
Like Solidarity, the men and women who fight in the Democratic Revolutionary Front of El Salvador represent most of their countrymen. Like the Poles, they face repression of the severest sort. In fact, one can argue that the situation in El Salvador, where 12,000 dissidents were murdered last year...
Jan. 10, 1981: Millions of Poles stay off the job to demand an end to Saturday as a workday. Warning strpkes continue periodically.
Dec. 7: Austria reimposes visa requirements on Poles, cutting off the principal avenue of escape for Poles seeking to defect to the West.