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...confirm the message, hundreds of heavy police trucks, vans equipped with water cannons and armored personnel carriers rumbled through the streets of Polish cities following the anniversary. In Gdansk, the birthplace of the now illegal independent union Solidarity, paramilitary ZOMOS concentrated on sealing off access to the downtown area. In a symbolic confirmation of their victory over Solidarity, the authorities detained the union's leader, Lech Walesa, 39, who had been released from eleven months of government detention only a month...
...release from detention, had intended to deliver a memorial speech. Instead, a few hours before his scheduled appearance, half a dozen policemen in full riot gear, equipped with machine guns and crowbars, appeared at Walesa's apartment door. They took him to the local office of the Polish Finance Ministry, where he was interrogated for an hour on alleged financial irregularities in the operations of Solidarity. Walesa was then bundled into an unmarked car by unidentified men and driven aimlessly around Gdansk for eight hours. The reason for the incident, which Walesa later described as a "kidnaping," seemed...
...number of Polish factories will be released from the military supervision that has proliferated since the declaration of martial law. But the same disciplinary rules will continue to prevail, meaning that managers can fire workers without appeal, and that workers cannot resign without management approval. The government also plans to review managers of state enterprises, top government officials and officials in schools of higher learning for both professional competence and "moral character...
Angered at the continuing deadlock in relations with the U.S., Jaruzelski delivered an unprecedented tirade against the Reagan Administration. The normally soft-spoken Polish leader railed against Washington's "anti-Polish obsession" and warned that his government would curtail contacts with Americans...
While Jaruzelski raged, onetime Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released last month from detention, tried to keep out of the public eye. He has written to Jaruzelski, reportedly asking for permission to make a speech at a wreath-laying ceremony at Gdansk this week commemorating Polish workers killed in riots twelve years ago. Walesa will have to choose his words carefully, knowing that any criticism of the government might land him in detention again...