The World - News from Oct. 13, 1985
Police police detained three top Solidarity trade union activists in Warsaw and dozens of dissidents in other cities for urging Poles to boycott today’s parliamentary elections, dissident sources said. Jacek Kuron, adviser to Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, Zbigniew Romanszewski, in charge of underground Radio Solidarity, and Janusz Onyszkiewicz, a former press spokesman for the outlawed union, were picked up for questioning and had not returned by Saturday evening, relatives said. Walesa said at least 35 people were picked up in his hometown of Gdansk.
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