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...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 columns of Jeeps, armored personnel carriers...
There have been signs that some fac tions in Solidarity have reluctantly begun to take to heart the government's tough talk. A bulletin issued this month by the leadership of an underground Solidarity chapter at the Lenin shipyard at Gdansk called for calm and restraint so that the government would have time to honor its commitment to continue reform. Economic hardships have clearly blunted the enthusiasm of many supporters for a confrontation with the regime...
...movement quickly inflamed the Polish spirit. Thousands of ordinary citizens began to mass outside the shipyard's main gates, decorating them with flowers, ribbons, papal portraits and red-and-white banners. And before the year was out, Solidarity had finally become a reality, a free trade union, 10 million members strong and powerful enough to transform the political life of Poland...
...signed a national accord two years ago with Solidarity, the true depth of the "invisible" hatred had yet to be measured. However unlikely another outburst of widespread national unrest seemed last week, it still could not be counted out. There is a precedent: two years ago at the Lenin shipyard, when one strike came to an end and another of a totally different sort began...
First Boston Corp., a leading Wall Street investment house; of cancer; at his vacation home near Lisbon, Portugal. Son of a Brooklyn shipyard worker, Woods rose to become what Banker David Rockefeller called "one of the two or three top investment bankers in the U.S. and perhaps the world...