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...government action against the young fire fighters provoked a heated response from Solidarity locals throughout the country. The movement's leader, Lech Walesa, immediately told his 9.5 million members to get ready for a strike alert. At an emergency meeting of Solidarity's twelve-member presidium in the industrial town of Radom, union leaders accused the authorities of having wrecked all chances of national reconciliation. "By opting for violence," they declared, "the government has jettisoned the possibility of a dialogue with society...
...genuine anger among Solidarity supporters. It also made it more difficult for Solidarity to support the proposal for a "front of national agreement" that had been put forward a month ago by the Premier and party chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The plan, which had been endorsed in part by Walesa and the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, would have established a permanent legal forum for negotiations between Poland's contending forces...
...Radom, Walesa voiced his union's suspicion that the proposed front was a facade erected by the government to control the labor movement. Solidarity was fierce in its denunciation of a bill the government plans to submit to the Polish parliament giving itself sweeping "essential powers." Those include the authority to halt public gatherings except for religious purposes, limit the right of travel inside and outside Poland and ban strikes at times of national emergency...
...Walesa, Jaruzelski and Cardinal Glemp hold an unprecedented "domestic summit" in hopes of paving the way for a broad front of national accord to solve the nation's problems...
...Polish media launch a strong attack on Solidarity, quoting Walesa as telling a private meeting that confrontation with the regime is inevitable. Walesa says his remarks were taken out of context...