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 | | During 1988 the nation's shipyards, coalmines, ports, and steelworks were paralyzed by a wave of Solidarity-led strikes for higher wages to offset the effect of recent price rises. |
 | | With its economic strategy in tatters, the government of prime minister Zbigniew Messner resigned, being replaced in December 1988 by a new administration headed by the reformist communist Mieczyslaw F Rakowski, and the PUWP's politburo was infused with a new clutch of technocrats. |
 | | After six weeks of PUWP-Solidarity -church negotiations, a historic accord was reached in April 1989 under which Solidarity was relegalized, the formation of opposition political associations tolerated, legal rights conferred on the Catholic church, the state's media monopoly lifted, and a new `socialist pluralist´ constitution drafted. |
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