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...Polish government seemed reluctant to press the matter much further. After his release, Walesa told journalists that he had cited to his interrogators a declaration by official Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, to the effect that meetings with ex-Solidarity leaders were not in themselves illegal unless the purpose was to plan an illegal act. Said the defiant Walesa: "I'll do it again. I will have another meeting...
Ever since his release last November following eleven months of detention, Walesa has been uncharacteristically subdued. Solidarity has been equally quiescent, even though its underground leaders have issued a number of vague appeals for popular defiance to the military rule of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. For its part, the debt-ridden Polish government is eager to project a veneer of normality, a task that is becoming increasingly important with the impending June visit of Pope John Paul...
Last week's game of cat-and-mouse may be a small sign that the veneer is about to crack. Following Walesa's brief detention, Solidarity leaders issued a call for widespread protest demonstrations in Poland on May Day. As the most important festival in the proletarian calendar neared, the question also loomed of whether Polish workers and the Polish "workers' state" were once more on a collision course...
Jozef Pinior, one of five fugitive Solidarity leaders who met with former union chief Lecb Walesa on April 9-11, was taken into custody in his hometown of Wroelaw, according to a dispatch by the official Polish news agency...
...report did not specify when Pinior was arrested. The announcement was made one day before Walesa was to return to his job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where he helped lead the August 1980 strikes that created Solidarity...