Letters: Jan. 19, 1981

Poland's Plight

To the Editors:

Three cheers for Lech Walesa and the leaders of Solidarity in Poland [Dec. 29]. With the Soviets threatening their homeland more and more each day, they have stood calmly defiant in support of their ideals and their legitimate demands for a free union system. Their message to Moscow is not only making the Soviets squirm, but is also informing anticapitalist idealists right here in the U.S. that Communism is not working.

John A. Heldt Eugene, Ore.

By scaling the gates of the strikebound Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk last August to lead what may be the most remarkable workers' revolt in...

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