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...hands high. By an overwhelming vote, they decreed the death of Solidarity, the 9 million-member independent union federation that for 16 months had shaken the entire Soviet bloc with its bold cry for freedom. That vote, approving a sweeping new trade-union law, finished the job that General Wojciech Jaruzelski had begun when he imposed martial law and suspended Solidarity last December...
...their country's local embassy. The terrorists' demands during the siege were hopelessly quixotic: curtailment of martial law in Poland, the release of all political prisoners held in that beleaguered country, and "an end to repression of the Polish "people" by the military regime run by General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...deaths, 148 policemen and 63 demonstrators were reported injured. Although the government insisted that the demonstrations enjoyed no wide popular support, the world had been given vivid proof of the Polish people's determination to win back the freedoms that were crushed by the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Neither side could claim a clear-cut victory in this round. The confrontations seemed likely to continue and to increase...
...Catholic nation's holiest shrine. As the government prepared to clamp down this week on demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the creation of the independent union Solidarity, Glemp seized the occasion to issue one of his strongest statements against the martial-law regime imposed by General Wojciech Jaruzelski eight months...
...martial law almost nine months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...