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...funnel in information. Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, having returned from Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. Says Flamini: "I calculate that at least half the people I talked to in Poland are now under arrest...
...travel and communications imposed special hardships. Rumors flourished?that Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Primate of Poland, had been arrested, that a top Solidarity leader had committed suicide?and could not be checked. Messages about sicknesses and funerals could not be sent. "I will die now," said a woman in Warsaw matter-of-factly. She had been scheduled for brain surgery in the U.S. this week, and now could not leave. At her side, her doctor sadly agreed. Because of the curfew, nurses and doctors could keep their hospitals open 24 hours a day only by taking up residence inside. Said...
...midweek Walesa met in Warsaw with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, who was attempting to mediate between the government and Solidarity. Glemp had already spoken out against the government's bill seeking broader emergency powers, saying that it could "disturb the internal peace and cause a grave social conflict." Following his talk with Walesa, there were rumors that the two might meet with Jaruzelski. But such a meeting was not arranged, and Walesa returned to Gdansk. For his efforts at peacemaking, the Archbishop received a blast from Moscow, which accused the Polish Catholic Church...
...Polish archbishop Jozef Glemp issued a communique Tuesday attacking the "numerous excesses" perpetrated against striking workers, intellectuals and students. "Our suffering is that of the entire nation terrorized by military force," Glemp said...
Born in eastern El Salvador to a middle-class family, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was by his own admission a conservative. In the months after his appointment as archbishop of the church in El Salvador, though, Romero watched the right kill several of his priests. And he read his Bible again. And soon he was speaking out so loud that the pathetic "men" running his nation had not choice but to kill him. The day before he died, Romero said this from the pulpit--"It is time that you come to your senses and obey your conscience...