Word: wojciech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time since the imposition of martial law in December 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week took his case directly to the world press. The government invited 122 editors, columnists and reporters from 26 nations who were in Warsaw attending an international conference of East bloc and Western journalists for an unusual evening question-and-answer session. Among the participants at the three-day meeting was TIME Associate Editor John Kohan, who filed this report...
There were also signs that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, whose government has arrested and charged four secret-police officers and suspended a general in the security forces in connection with the kidnaping, may be locked in a battle with hard-liners in the regime who may have staged the abduction to embarrass him. According to the Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu, Jaruzelski received a report on party efforts that would "further strengthen ideological unity" in the Interior Ministry, a sign that he was trying to marshal his forces against hardliners...
...Baltic port of Gdansk. Four years ago, the outspoken electrician had scaled the shipyard gates and assumed the leadership of a strike that gave birth to Solidarity, the Communist bloc's first independent trade union. Solidarity was officially suspended in 1981, when the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and detained most of the union's leaders. But as Walesa and his fellow workers showed last Friday, the anniversary of the 1980 Gdansk agreement that legally recognized the union, the spirit of Solidarity was still alive...
Some Administration officials opposed the policy change on the grounds that it helps legitimize the rigid regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski. Supporters of the Administration move argued that the sanctions have only hurt the Polish people. In the end, said a U.S. official, with an eye on the sizable Polish-American vote, the decision was "80% domestic politics...
...chief spokesman, Jerzy Urban, last week were aimed at the U.S., not for what it had done but for what it had failed to do. What infuriated Urban was Washington's apparent initial tepid response to Warsaw's sweeping amnesty for 652 political prisoners. To Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime, the amnesty clearly lived up to Washington's conditions for lifting an array of painful economic sanctions imposed after Poland declared martial law in 1981. But the Reagan Administration seemed to Warsaw to be dragging its feet. If amnesty is not enough, cried Urban, "what...