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...national protest, Warsaw was generally calm, but military forces were again seen everywhere. Helmeted police using shields and batons dispersed crowds that gathered in Warsaw's Old Town and on the steps of the Church of the Holy Cross to talk and to sing the national anthem. By 7 p.m. the streets were empty. That night, in its first admission of casualties, Warsaw radio reported in somber tones that seven Poles had been killed and hundreds wounded in a clash between miners, fighting with picks and axes, and troops at a coal mine near Katowice, in southern Poland. In addition...
...POLES," Walesa (and for that matter Jagielski) repeats several times in the course of the negotiations; when the bargaining is over, they solemnly rise to sing the national anthem. The devotion of Solidarity to its nation is obvious (though in a country with its own pope, much nationalism is subsumed in religious fervor), Clearly, though, the hopes of union members for reform go well beyond the boundaries of Gdansk, and, more important, well beyond the boundaries of the working class. Again and again Walesa that there shall be no agreement unless dissident intellectuals are released; if harassment continues, "We will...
Local politicians, ex-Football Star Roosevelt Grier, and Evangelists Rex Humbard and Pat Robertson attended. Barbara Mandrell sang the national anthem. There was a congratulatory letter from President Reagan. The festivities in Tulsa last week preceded not the kickoff of a football game but the opening of the City of Faith, the $150 million medical complex that Evangelist Oral Roberts claims he built on direct orders from...
...once again, the government blinked. Instead of using force against the union, Jaruzelski denounced the strike in a tough speech to an emergency session of the Central Committee. "Poland has not yet perished," he said, echoing the words of the national anthem, "but it is perishing. Time is running out. This blockade must be lifted." Addressing parliament at week's end, the general asked the deputies to pass a resolution "firmly demanding the immediate halt of all strikes." If that call went unheeded, Jaruzelski warned, the government would resort to "extraordinary means of action for the protection of citizens...
...greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each one's national anthem was played and howitzers blasted an ear-splitting salute...