Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the most serious outbreak of labor unrest since placing Poland under martial law more than six years ago, the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski seemed oddly uncertain about how to respond, whether to make strategic concessions or to lower the boom. For a while, the government tried a...
At midweek the crisis seemed to be abating. The Catholic bishops authorized five prominent laymen to serve as mediators in the dispute, evidently with the government's consent. But by the time the laymen arrived at Nowa Huta and Gdansk, the course of action was about to change drastically.
As police came in, they set off percussion grenades, terrorizing the "paralyzed, defenseless and sleeping people," said Krzystof Kozlowski, a senior Roman Catholic journalist in Krakow.
Riot squads stormed Nowa Huta just one day after Roman Catholic church mediators had persuaded plant directors to negotiate with the strikers.
If the food and ambience at Mirano's restaurant are spartan, they mirror life in Pantasma, a garrison and farming town in Nicaragua's Jinotega province that has been as close to the center of the brutal six-year war as any other town in the country. Pantasma's 4...