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Poles Face Bleak Christmas as Martial Law Tightens
An AP dispatch from Warsaw reports a cold Christmas with short rations and dwindling fuel under martial law. Thousands suffer in detention camps while protests against the crackdown on Solidarity persist, with hints of a reconstituted union under new leadership.
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Associated Press
Solidarity
Warsaw
Solidarity Labor Union
Communist Party
Poland
Thomas W. Netter
Poznan
Krakow