The World - News from Jan. 1, 1985
Solidarity activists by the hundreds ignored the government’s New Year’s amnesty deadline and will continue working underground against Poland’s Communist authorities, the outlawed union’s founder, Lech Walesa, said. The government had guaranteed immunity from prosecution for Solidarity members who surrendered before the deadline. Meantime, Ryszard Kalinowski, 34, a former deputy chairman of Solidarity, fled to Norway with his wife and daughter and sought political asylum there, Norwegian officials announced.
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