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...workers decided to give up their demonstration after occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin, dockworkers were reported to be loading and unloading the same goods over and over again; at the Zeran auto plant in Warsaw, workers were said to be making parts that would not fit together...
...information center was said to be operating at St. Martin's Church in Warsaw, where people could learn what happened to relatives and friends and could even arrange to send them parcels. Priests were being allowed into a few of the camps. Some detainees told horror stories of the brutality of the militia, whose members sometimes carry special steel-cored nightsticks capable of breaking bones...
...WARSAW--Polish authorities yesterday lifted several martial law restrictions, but Pope John Paul II nonetheless condemned his native government for its persecution of the Polish people...
...Poland's tumultuous year drew to a close, the ranking Solidarity leader still at liberty sent a message of "holiday greetings" to members and "to all our friends in Poland and abroad." Zbigniew Bujak, 27, the underground leader of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, appealed to soldiers and policemen to "listen to their consciences" and "not allow themselves to be used in the waging of war against the nation." Then, addressing himself to the families of the detainees, including Walesa's pregnant wife and six children, Bujak expressed a New Year's wish on behalf...
Some phone service was restored within Warsaw, several international flights were scheduled and official censorship was lifted for foreign journalists after almost a month of government interference...