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- DIED. Piotr Jaroszewicz, 82, communist Prime Minister of
- Poland from 1970 to 1980; and his wife Alicja Solska, a former
- journalist; he by strangulation, she from a rifle shot; in
- Warsaw. Authorities believe the deaths resulted from "actions
- by a third party." Jaroszewicz imposed policies that brought
- Poland's economy to collapse and sparked the 1980 strikes
- leading to the creation of the Solidarity trade union movement.
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