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Early last week Gwiazda blasted the compromise as "a deplorable political mistake" and accused Solidarity's leadership of "no longer talking to the grass roots." Rulewski said that "this union was not created to make compromises, but to smash the totalitarian system in our country." Finally, by a vote of 348 to 189, the delegates reprimanded their leaders for "a violation of the principles of union democracy" because so few people had taken part in the decision. At week's end, however, the delegates overwhelmingly adopted a resolution accepting the new government laws on worker self-management...
...think I'm a fool, or that I am manipulated by the experts," he said, responding to charges that he depended too heavily on his advisers. Walesa berated the radicals for seeking "to destroy the Sejm [parliament] and government, take their place, and become more totalitarian than they are." He added: "This we cannot do-we must protect ourselves from ourselves...
...better to be afraid of unjust laws than to fear lawbreakers? We enthusiastically support Polish civil disobedience, yet we require of our civil servants totalitarian-like oaths that are illegal in the private sector...
...basis of our foreign policy. Not only because we are committed to it but also because we stand for the basic principles that protect man and the humanistic development of the kind of society in which we believe. It's the way to oppose any totalitarian progress. With that goes a defense commitment. We are not members of [the military structure of] NATO. We do not intend to change the former policies. We are not going to be a part of the integrated NATO system. But we'll keep on building and modernizing our defense forces, in particular...
...anti-Semitism," although he also believes that the Argentine publisher was treated more brutally because he is Jewish. "There is no doubt that there are many anti-Semitic trends in Argentina, but not in the Nazi sense," he says. Kissinger agrees with the Reagan Administration that the distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian governments is a valid one, adding, "but that doesn't mean we shouldn't oppose violation of human rights in either place...