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Former Union Leader Lech Walesa was in a combative mood last week when three policemen turned up at his apartment in the Polish seaport of Gdansk. The cops wanted to detain him for questioning, but the folk hero of the country's now outlawed Solidarity movement refused to go. His reason: the police could not produce an arrest warrant. Said Walesa: "You should abide by the laws." Momentarily nonplussed, the police retreated, but they returned almost immediately to tell Walesa that they would take him away by force if necessary. Finally, Walesa was whisked to a militia headquarters...
...government campaign seemed at first to have succeeded: an eerie calm settled over most of Poland's cities on the morning of the demonstrations. By midafternoon, however, groups of protesters had begun to gather. In Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born two years ago, 4,000 employees filed out of the Lenin shipyard to lay flowers on a towering, triple-spired memorial to workers killed in the 1970 riots. Police and soldiers ringed the monument to prevent other demonstrators from joining the workers. Suddenly, the paramilitary police force, known as ZOMO, rolled toward the monument in three...
Workers at the Lenin shipyard, in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, laid down their tools on Aug. 14 and refused to leave. As news of the strike spread, an unemployed electrician named Lech Walesa climbed over the shipyard's iron-bar fence and into history. Under his leadership, the workers demanded higher wages, an earlier retirement age, better food supplies and, in a daring political challenge to the regime, the right to organize independent trade unions...
...term debt, and county commissioners believe that is about as much as the county's taxpayers can afford. As a result, if rates do not ease back to more tolerable levels, the commissioners may wind up having to pick and choose among a long list of public projects, from seaport and airport expansion to water and sewer projects and roads, deciding which to shelve and which to go ahead with. Says Stacey Hornstein, the county's capital improvements coordinator: "I can't tell you we won't stop any project...
...Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born in August 1980, the spirit of resistance still burned. More than 200 students and workers were arrested there after clashes with police on Jan. 30. Foreign journalists visited the area last week on a government-organized tour and found many workers unshaken in their loyalty to Solidarity. "We have to have unions as before," said a hull-assembly worker at Lenin Shipyard. "In this country, with its [Communist] system, it is not possible to have a true union that is not political. If the government will not give it to us, then...