At 23, Olek joined the ruling Polish United Workers' Party, as the communists called themselves, only under pressure he says as a student at Gdansk University who simply wanted to get on.

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The company reinstated them last fall after a third-party arbitrator sided with the United Auto Workers, which had filed a grievance on their behalf.

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The fact that one of the women was a founding member of the PKK, the Kurdish Workers' Party -- a group viewed by Turkey, the United States and others as a terror organization -- led to heightened speculation.

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