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Talk With Solidarity Members
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   On Nov.3, three Polish Solidarity members were invited to UT and
had a seminar with a group of Chinese students.  Mr. Gilewski, the repre-
sentative of Solidarity at Toronto and a member of Canadian Labour
Congress, who just came back from a visit to Poland and Hungary, intro-
duced what he has seen inside Poland. Mr. Kusiba, a jouralist, answered
many questions about Polish people and culture. And Mr. Kubiak, a Ph.D
student at UT, made many complementary explainations.

   Chinese students were very interested in recent dramastic changes 
in Eastern European countries and anxiously asked many questions about
the backgroud of Polish Solidarity. Those questions covered: The
political and economical background of Polish reform, the foundation
of Solidarity, the historical and cultural background of Polish people,
the religious influence on Polish and the local and global relationships
of Polish reform and other countries. 

   The Solidarity members also expressed their deep concerns about China
and its reform. 
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