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...assault marked the first use of force by police since Poland's labor troubles began last July-and the first serious breakdown in the tenuous recent truce between the government and Solidarity. The nation's workers reacted angrily. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders, who had been trying to stave off strikes and work stoppages elsewhere, rushed to Bydgoszcz to comfort the injured and demand retribution against the police. Addressing an overflow meeting of outraged unionists, Walesa alternately stirred his listeners with attacks on the Communist apparatus and urged them not to react too rashly. "Those bandits...
...Walesa did his best to cool tempers during his visit to Bydgoszcz. "Not all the authorities are swine," the Solidarity leader said. Then he warned them that "you must realize that a general strike would be the end of our struggle. One side has an army and we have none...
...Bydgoszcz protests coincided with the beginning of "Soyuz 81" maneuvers to test Warsaw Pact military communications. The maneuvers were centered at Legnica, headquarters for the 40,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland. They made it even easier for Moscow to move against Solidarity if it wanted to. Thus Walesa was cautiously trying to avoid any confrontation...
...interview started as a trial of strength, as interviews by the volatile Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci inevitably must. Lech Walesa, the Polish union leader, said: "I am a man with a goal to reach so I don't give a damn ... Not for the books, not for the interviews, not for the Nobel Prize and even less for you." Fallaci answers: "Listen, Walesa ... if you don't mind, I am the one who asks. Now let's start." Soon Walesa confesses that "I'm tired, bloody tired, and not only in my body...
...Poland's Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement that is shaking Eastern Europe, sold out? And for $33? Not really. Walesa, 37, has simply turned movie star. In Director Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron, a dramatization of last summer's shipyard strikes and a sequel to his acclaimed Man of Marble, Walesa plays himself. He apparently has no strikes against him. Says Wajda: "He performed without any stage fright and even joked that he might want to join the film company." His one scene yet to be filmed will show Walesa taking a meeting...