Not surprisingly, the 10 million Solidarity members represented a wide range of attitudes, from confrontational to conciliatory.

This virtually assured that a Solidarity member would become prime minister.

The organizers were a mixed group of former Solidarity members and younger workers pressing for higher pay in the face of stiff price increases.

To win, the general must obtain a majority of legislators present, so the departure of some Solidarity members would lower the number needed to win.

Still, after the aggressive questioning today, it appears increasingly unlikely that any Solidarity members will vote for him.

Nonetheless, Solidarity members and activists continued to be persecuted and discriminated, if less so than during the early 1980s.

The group did not put forward candidates for election to union posts (though many Solidarity members became shop stewards and some became officials).

Today was for the Solidarity members a day of quiet but full triumph.

After all, these are the people who had worked with the authorities under martial law, while Solidarity members and the independent-minded had lost their jobs.

As a result, 7 Solidarity members invalidated their ballots, while 11 stayed away.