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...former leaders appear unwilling to abandon political activism. Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, the union's regional chairman for Lower Silesia from 1980 to 1981, disappeared for three days immediately following his release from prison. After resurfacing, he announced that he had been secretly conferring on future strategy with Zbigniew Bujak, Solidarity's fugitive Mazowsze branch leader. Possibly to hinder such activities, authorities last week detained Frasyniuk and Jozef Pinior, another former local union official, immediately after they laid flowers before a Solidarity commemorative plaque in Wroclaw. The pair were sentenced to two months' detention for disturbing public order. Dozens...
...official indictment charged the four men who went on trial in Warsaw last week with conspiring to overthrow the Communist system in Poland. That could mean only one thing: they had collaborated with the banned Solidarity movement. So when Intellectuals Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski appeared before a military tribunal, former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa broke off his summer vacation to travel to Warsaw. Although rows of police prevented Walesa from entering the military courthouse, his presence drew cheers and applause from the crowd that had gathered outside...
Though the opposition's top figure, Zbigniew Bujak, 29, remained at large, the capture of Lis depressed efforts to organize a boycott of Sunday's elections for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local posts. Lis had led the campaign, urging Poles to deny the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski the opportunity to claim it had the support of the people...
...existence of a CIA pipeline to the mujahedin has long been an open secret. President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, publicly took credit for setting up the arms flow to the Afghan rebels in 1979. Shortly before his death in 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat acknowledged that the U.S. was using Egypt to ship weapons to Afghanistan. During a visit to Pakistan last year, Secretary of State George Shultz went so far as to tell several thousand Afghan refugees, "You fight valiantly, and your spirit inspires the world. I want you to know that...
...under Communist control, Chernenko is not unknown in the West. Still, a number of Westerners who have met him are unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski believes, is probably advantageous to the U.S. and perhaps for East...