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The World - News from June 1, 1988

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Poland’s Solidarity union announced that it will boycott nationwide elections June 19 for local and provincial councils. “The boycott will be an expression of our resistance to the deprivation of our rights,” the outlawed Solidarity said in a communique. The vote will be the first held under a new election law that requires at least two candidates for each seat and secret ballots. But the balloting still is structured so that the Communist Party is guaranteed a majority of the seats.

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