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...also released an earlier interview with an unidentified woman who said, from Walesa's Gdansk home. "He will be unable to travel there for well-known reasons.... He is simply not sure that he would be able to cross the Polish border in both directions...
Meanwhile, the independent union's former leader, Lech Walesa, who was released in November after eleven months of detention, returned last week to the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where Solidarity was born. "I am your employee," Walesa told an official, "so I came to work." But shipyard personnel stopped the former electrician at an office just inside the gate and told him he could not be reinstated until he obtained a letter certifying that he was not employed elsewhere. They also asked him to respond to government accusations of irregularities in Solidarity's finances. As police moved into...
...confirm the message, hundreds of heavy police trucks, vans equipped with water cannons and armored personnel carriers rumbled through the streets of Polish cities following the anniversary. In Gdansk, the birthplace of the now illegal independent union Solidarity, paramilitary ZOMOS concentrated on sealing off access to the downtown area. In a symbolic confirmation of their victory over Solidarity, the authorities detained the union's leader, Lech Walesa, 39, who had been released from eleven months of government detention only a month...
...Walesa's apartment door. They took him to the local office of the Polish Finance Ministry, where he was interrogated for an hour on alleged financial irregularities in the operations of Solidarity. Walesa was then bundled into an unmarked car by unidentified men and driven aimlessly around Gdansk for eight hours. The reason for the incident, which Walesa later described as a "kidnaping," seemed to be to avoid any possible disturbances as a result of Walesa's scheduled speech, even though the bland text, released in advance to foreign correspondents, did little more than counsel Polish workers...
While Jaruzelski raged, onetime Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released last month from detention, tried to keep out of the public eye. He has written to Jaruzelski, reportedly asking for permission to make a speech at a wreath-laying ceremony at Gdansk this week commemorating Polish workers killed in riots twelve years ago. Walesa will have to choose his words carefully, knowing that any criticism of the government might land him in detention again...