The World - News from Dec. 3, 1986
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Poland lodged a formal protest with Sweden after a Swedish truck driver was stopped over the weekend at the Polish border carrying 84 copying machines, 12 printing machines and a radio transmitter. Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, implying that the equipment was destined for the outlawed Solidarity union, said the seizure proved that Western nations were helping the union’s underground. Since it was outlawed in 1981, the Solidarity union has been operating printing works around the country that reportedly turn out about 1,000 illegal newspapers. A Swedish Embassy official said the equipment was apparently in transit through Poland to a third country.
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