Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years and jailed or driven underground many of its leaders, the party needed the union's help. During several weeks of so-called round-table discussions with the government, Walesa and other union leaders concluded that it was Poland that needed their help. They traded a tacit pledge to refrain from further strikes for legalization of the union, an amended constitution and freer elections than those that had been held since World War II. Solidarity turned itself into a political party -- the first true opposition in the Soviet bloc -- so it could contest all 100 seats in the new Senate...