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Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski told Bush the speech "contained many thoughts permeated with realism." But Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski said his nation was not looking for "a rain of gold...
...West needs to give definition and vigor to a basically sensible approach. It must identify what trends it should encourage, where involvement can have the greatest impact and where initiative would be largely wasted. Poland's Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski, for one, has made it plain to Secretary of State James Baker that he welcomes help: "The United States should not be absent...
...Father Tadeusz Zaleski, a pro-Solidarity priest who was at the strike- committee headquarters in the rolling-mill building, the first target of the attackers, described the assault: "They kept shooting off these blinding flash and deafening percussion grenades. People lost their bearings and began fleeing in panic. They were chased all over the hall and beaten with truncheons." Most of the 18 members of the strike committee were taken into custody. Then a force of at least 2,000 riot police swept through the rest of the mill, rounding up strikers and forcing them to kneel or lie down...
Just before Jaruzelski spoke, the Sejm gave its final approval to an amnesty bill that, claimed Deputy Minister of Justice Tadeusz Skdra, would apply to 190 political prisoners and 465 persons awaiting trial. All women, all persons who were under 21 at the time of their arrest, and anyone serving a sentence of three years or less would be released. Those with prison terms of more than three years would have their sentences cut in half. Not covered are 60 former leaders of Solidarity and of the Committee for Social Self-Defense (K.O.R.), a dissident group...
...liberty, Walesa had kept a fairly low profile, but the April meeting and its subsequent wide publicity appeared to signal a new defiance on the labor chief's part. "It seems to indicated that Walesa is ready and willing to take a more active part in the resistance," observed Tadeusz Szafar, a Polish visiting scholar at the Russian Research Center. "I don't know what it achieves for him, but it's certainly not permission to go to Harvard...