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...after a short recess, the judge tacked on some amendments to the original charter. To the dismay of union leaders, he inserted the objectionable clause about party supremacy. In a statement read by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, the union denounced the "arbitrary" revision and vowed to be "guided by the charter without the changes made by the court." Outside the courthouse, Walesa told supporters: "They will not do to us things that we do not want done...
This is no idle boast. The charismatic Walesa, 37, has emerged as a national hero who can mobilize hundreds of thousands of workers. During a five-day tour of southern Poland, he was greeted by large and enthusiastic throngs. The emotional high point came in Cracow, where he was swept up by the crowd and carried on shoulders two miles to the old city's Market Square. There he raised his hand and declared: "I swear that I will not disappoint you in that which we do and intend to do." The gathering of 30,000 responded with chants...
Many Polish workers are restive about official foot dragging on the Gdansk agreement; they have threatened to register their displeasure with a nationwide work stoppage similar to the one that shut factories for an hour on Oct. 3. Walesa and others had argued against such a step, at least for the moment. Said Walesa: "We are aware of the economic losses another strike would entail, but, since this is our weapon, we cannot give up using...
...report that there have been nationalist demonstrations at schools in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, as well as a strike at a tractor factory in the city of Tartu. Students in Tartu held protest rallies, demanding an end to the 40-year-old So viet occupation of their country. Walesa is characteristically defiant about the possibility of Soviet intervention. "Tanks can guard us," he says, "but they cannot make us work...
...American television, such unprecedented coverage may have seemed so much like home as not to appear novel: there stood an American correspondent, mike in hand, talking in front of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk exactly as he might outside a struck factory in Akron. Overnight, Strike Leader Lech Walesa-whose appearances on the state-run Polish television were kept to a minimum-became a familiar American-television face. With the usual American gift for hype, Republicans trotted out Walesa's father, who lives in New Jersey but doesn't speak English, to pose for TV cameras with Ronald...