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...days after the Central Committee meeting, Gorbachev flew to Warsaw, where he was greeted by Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski before joining in ceremonies to renew the Warsaw Pact alliance among East bloc countries. At the formal signing ceremonies, where the 30-year-old alliance was extended for 20 years, plus the option of an additional decade, Gorbachev spoke forcefully but broke no new ground. Said he: "More than once we have expressed readiness to dissolve the Warsaw Treaty if NATO should agree to respond in kind. This principled stand continues to be fully valid." What undoubtedly impressed...
...episode recalled the early 1980s, when Solidarity, the independent trade union, wielded its strike weapon to extract concessions from Poland's Communist leaders. Faced with a threatened 15-minute nationwide walkout called by the now banned labor organization, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week postponed planned food-price hikes averaging some 12%. Unlike the old days, both sides claimed victory. The authorities attributed their decision not to Solidarity's walkout plans but to actions by the officially sanctioned All-Poland Trade Union Alliance, which had also come out against the price rises. The government thus sought to turn...
...Gdansk raid came at a sensitive moment for the regime of General Wojciech , Jaruzelski. A week earlier, four Interior Ministry officials had been sentenced by a Toruan court to jail terms ranging from 14 to 25 years for their role in the abduction and murder last October of a pro-Solidarity Roman Catholic priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko. The trial discredited the state security apparatus and suggested the possibility of a plot by Communist hard- liners against Jaruzelski's leadership. As a result, the authorities seemed more intent than ever on containing their opponents...
...murder of Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the banned Solidarity labor union, and the subsequent arrest of the four Polish security officers, had presented the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski with its most formidable challenge since martial law was imposed in 1981. Jaruzelski's decision to prosecute the men publicly offered fellow Poles an unprecedented glimpse into the workings of the country's secret police and defused, at least temporarily, the explosive anger over Popieluszko's death. There is speculation that the murder was engineered by government hard-liners to embarrass Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw...
...radio broadcast at 10:30 every night and listening to the latest installment of death and deception as defense attorneys and prosecutors alike in Torun's Courtroom 40 continue to tolerate a flood of contradictions from the witness stand. Perhaps to divert attention from Torun, early last week Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski paid an unprecedented visit to the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where the banned trade union Solidarity had its roots. There he talked with workers about high food prices while hunching over work benches, shaking hands and kissing women's cheeks...