Word: wojciech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the most serious outbreak of labor unrest since placing Poland under martial law more than six years ago, the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski seemed oddly uncertain about how to respond, whether to make strategic concessions or to lower the boom. For a while, the government tried a little of both. As the strikes spread to other major industrial centers and the country's universities last week, authorities continued to agree to wage increases in a few cases, acceded to mediation attempts by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in others -- but always with the explicit warning that...
...protests were a direct challenge to the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, 64, who crushed Solidarity and declared martial law in 1981. Since 1987, emulating Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jaruzelski has sought to streamline Poland's creaky economy. On Feb. 1 and April 1 of this year, the government introduced a series of price hikes accompanied by compensatory payments to workers. The result was a first-quarter inflation rate of 45% and bitter complaints that workers could not keep up with the cost of living...
Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski took a tough line on wage demands during ceremonies in Warsaw...
Ironically, what defeated the initiative of Polish Leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski was an electoral provision designed to foil any attempt by opposition forces, however unlikely, to hold a referendum someday on abandoning the Communist system. Under that rule, approval requires a majority not merely of those who actually vote but of everyone eligible to do so. Thus, ( while approximately two-thirds of those who went to the polls voted in favor of both issues on last week's referendum, both were defeated. Only 44% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters responded affirmatively to a question on economic reform...
...ideological chasms separating John Paul from his official hosts were evident from the minute his airplane landed at Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Polish * Leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski, noting that the martial law in effect during the Pope's last visit had been lifted shortly after his departure, warned his guest that the one matter not open to papal "initiative" was "acceptance of the socialist principles of our state." It did not take long for John Paul to disregard that rule. Speaking to a group of academics at the Catholic University of Lublin, he called for a re-examination...