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...state of war" was declared by the Polish government, Correspondents Richard Hornik and Gregory Wierzynski and Photographer Henri Bureau were already in Gdansk, covering what turned out to be the last meeting of the Solidarity union's national commission. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, was in Warsaw. In the capital, at least at first, near normality reigned-sunshine, snow and only a few soldiers. "Getting the right picture to show the mood was extremely difficult," reported Burnett. "There wasn't an overwhelming military presence you could photograph. There was only a growing sense of doom...
...Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. Says Flamini: "I calculate that at least half the people I talked to in Poland are now under arrest...
...train for West Berlin Monday night (see Press). With him went 30 precious rolls of his and Burnett's film. Burnett himself left by train two days later. Correspondent Wierzynski, who arrived in West Berlin by train at week's end, reports that "news gathering in Warsaw came down to finding Polish friends who might know something-an account from a person recently returned from another city or from a worker in one of the big plants outside town." A Polish-born American, Wierzynski says, "I left behind family and a country that only a few days...
...door at 3 a.m. Sunday. He refused to allow them in, demanding the presence of Gdansk Party Secretary Tadeusz Fiszbach, a noted liberal for whom Walesa had respect. As soon as Fiszbach arrived, Walesa gave himself up. He was then taken to the airport and flown to Warsaw, where, according to a government spokesman, "he is being treated with all the respect due the head of Solidarity." Out of his own choice or the government's, not a word has been heard from him publicly since he was seized...
...midweek Walesa met in Warsaw with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, who was attempting to mediate between the government and Solidarity. Glemp had already spoken out against the government's bill seeking broader emergency powers, saying that it could "disturb the internal peace and cause a grave social conflict." Following his talk with Walesa, there were rumors that the two might meet with Jaruzelski. But such a meeting was not arranged, and Walesa returned to Gdansk. For his efforts at peacemaking, the Archbishop received a blast from Moscow, which accused the Polish Catholic Church...