So vowed Solidarity's Walesa last week as the food crisis worsened
As it built up slowly, purposefully, the demonstration threatened to become the violent clash that Poland had been dreading—and miraculously avoiding—through a precarious year of labor unrest and political change. About 100 trucks, buses and taxis wound their way through downtown Warsaw early last week. The vehicles in the convoy were draped with red and white national flags and banners proclaiming A HUNGRY NATION CAN EAT ITS BOSSES and GIVE US BREAD. Then, suddenly, traffic policemen halted the lead drivers as they...
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