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...attempts to encourage moderation seem to be having little effect on Warsaw. Hardening their position on the future of Solidarity, Polish authorities launched their first full-scale propaganda attack on Union Leader Lech Walesa, who is still interned in a government villa near the capital. The army daily Zolnierz Wolnosci accused Walesa and other union leaders of deciding in December that "the gallows have to be built" for the Communists. The union leader was personally denounced by the Polish Press Agency as a "front for the anti-Communist crusade" and a traitor to "working-class interests." In an interview with...
...state press and television. As a series of still photographs of Walesa was shown on TV, an announcer intoned, "Do you want to follow this band of revolutionaries, or would you prefer a peaceful national understanding of the kind the government is seeking?" The army newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci called Walesa "a great liar and provocateur" who headed a group of "madmen" who were striving for "anarchy and chaos...
...union claimed that police in Crackow and Chelm detained 15 Solidarity members for putting up strike posters. Nowhere, however, were the printers prevented from striking. The government ran off skeleton newspapers on army presses and managed to put out a sizable run of the armed forces daily, Zolnierz Wolnosci. The Communist Party paper, Trybuna Ludu, printed only 150,000 copies of its normal 1.1 million circulation. Most news vendors obeyed a Solidarity call not to sell papers...
...Poland, the official army newspaper attacked Solidarity for three straight days. The newspaper, Zolnierz Wolnosci, lamented Poland's "lack of order," and underlined its strategic importance as a transportation and communications bridge between the Soviet Union and East Germany, the Warsaw Pact's western flank. Cautioned the paper: "Closing one's eyes to the imperialistic plans would mean suicide." In a tough speech on Saturday, Kania himself declared menacingly that his government had "enough justification and strength to curb the action of open foes of socialism...
WARSAW ZOLNIERZ WOLNOSCI...