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Lech Walesa, meanwhile, was reportedly refusing to negotiate with authorities except in the presence of Glemp, Solidarity's three legal advisers and the entire union presidium. Walesa's wife is said to have visited him several times and to have confirmed that he is in good health and relaxed enough to joke with his guards about trying to escape. But he eats only the food that visitors bring him, fearing that he might be drugged by his captors. Denying widespread reports that Walesa had been sent to a monastery, Wieslaw Gornicki, a Jaruzelski adviser, last week stated that...
Walesa, who had taken no part in shaping the offending resolutions, concentrated on defusing the self-management issue before the second half of the congress met at the end of September. On the eve of that session, he and three other members of Solidarity's twelve-man presidium accepted a compromise version of the government's self-management bill. It would give workers' councils the right to choose managers at most enterprises; the state could veto nominees it found objectionable. Parlament passed the plan into law the day before the union delegates returned to Gdansk. A dangerous union-government showdown...
...government action against the young fire fighters provoked a heated response from Solidarity locals throughout the country. The movement's leader, Lech Walesa, immediately told his 9.5 million members to get ready for a strike alert. At an emergency meeting of Solidarity's twelve-member presidium in the industrial town of Radom, union leaders accused the authorities of having wrecked all chances of national reconciliation. "By opting for violence," they declared, "the government has jettisoned the possibility of a dialogue with society...
DIED. Charles Parlin, 83, former co-president of the World Council of Churches and former president of the World Methodist Council; in New York City. A staunch ecumenist, Parlin was the first American layman to be named to the six-member presidium of the World Council of Churches, where he served from 1961 to 1968. A lawyer, he defended Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated charges in 1953 that Oxnam had a Communist Party affiliation...
Echoing Walesa's calls for restraint, Solidarity's national presidium telexed union locals at week's end to demand a halt to wildcat strikes. But the protests continued to spread. In the city of Zyrardow, near Warsaw, 12,000 textile workers entered the third week of a sit-in to demand more food. In Zielona Gora province, 150,000 workers continued their week-old strike to protest the firing of a local Solidarity farm manager. In Tarnobrzeg province, 180,000 stayed off the job because of inadequate food supplies. And in southern Sosnowiec, near Katowice, angry miners...