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Mon 04 Apr 2007Poles vow to boycott 'Orwellian' witch-huntPOLAND:A new law in Poland requires public figures to say if they were ever spies, writes Daniel McLaughlinin WarsawPoland's first post-communist prime minister and one of its leading members of the European Parliament are spearheading defiance of a new law that threatens some 700,000 Poles with the sack unless they prove that they did not spy for the communist secret police.