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...French Socialists took advantage of the Communists' contradictory positions to try to discredit their junior partners, who lost almost half of their parliamentary seats in last year's elections. "Arrest Marchais-not Walesa," one Socialist loudspeaker trumpeted during a pro-Solidarity demonstration. Nor has the Communist Party's pro-Soviet attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération...
...Change, too, has its limits," charged Bundestag Member Freimut Duve, a member of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. "Lech Walesa should have recognized them long ago." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stated that martial law "isn't bad" if it prevents civil war. George Kennan, a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, suggested that Poland's latest tragedy might have been avoided if only Solidarity had been content "to rest for a while on its laurels" instead of pushing the "semiparalyzed Communist government" to the wall...
Your choice of Lech Walesa for Man of the Year is good, but not best. Anwar Sadat taught the world what Christ meant by forgive and forget. He overlooked historical grudges for the cause of peace...
...equate Walesa's contribution to his country with Bobby Sands' death for the cause of a united Irish republic. Sands would have been my choice...
Jaruzelski had originally hoped to rally worker support by winning the cooperation of moderate union leaders, especially Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa. But Walesa, who is presumably still being held in a government villa near the capital, continued his refusal to negotiate. Although Spokesman Urban said that Walesa "is such a personality that a place will be found for him in future agreements," some Western analysts believe that the authorities have virtually given up hope that he will cooperate...