Word: tadeusz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general in the army or police. Except for the white belts that are worn by the W.S.W. (the Military Security Service assigned to keep an eye on members of Poland's 320,000-strong armed forces), the special troops have almost no distinguishing marks on their uniforms. Explains Tadeusz Nowakowski, a prominent Polish writer now living in Munich: "The leadership knows that Poles like Polish soldiers, so they play a trick on them. Poles never know precisely if they are dealing with the army, the special units or the secret police in uniform...
Even as the Communist regime prosecuted its own ex-leaders, the party itself continued to crumble from within. Since the crackdown began, 4,000 party members in Warsaw alone have turned in their cards in protest. Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach, a leading liberal, resigned last week. Many others are likely to be expelled as the party executes what Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski called a "purge of opportunists, careerists and immoral people." Totally discredited in the eyes of the public, the party now has an estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized...
...part expose on the privileges of top Communist officials. In student clubs, journalists' groups and literary unions, there were open discussions of topics that had been forbidden in the universities, such as Poland's history between the world wars. New publications bloomed like wild flowers. Edited by Catholic Intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the weekly Solidarnosc quickly reached a nationwide circulation of 500,000, easily outdistancing the once-prestigious party weekly Polityka (circ...
...first to be detained were hundreds of Solidarity activists, and virtually first among the first was Lech Walesa. Police knocked at his door at 3 a.m. Sunday. He refused to allow them in, demanding the presence of Gdansk Party Secretary Tadeusz Fiszbach, a noted liberal for whom Walesa had respect. As soon as Fiszbach arrived, Walesa gave himself up. He was then taken to the airport and flown to Warsaw, where, according to a government spokesman, "he is being treated with all the respect due the head of Solidarity." Out of his own choice or the government...
...Tadeusz Walendowski, director of the Washington-based Poland Watch Committee, predicted violence--rioting today and a general strike tomorrow, aiming toward an overthrow of the Jaruzelski government...