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...Waldemar Chmielewski, a former lieutenant of the Polish secret police, stood up in the defendants' box, a nervous tic on the right side of his face caused his dark mustache to twitch uncontrollably. Chmielewski and three other members of the security forces went on trial two weeks ago in the city of Toruan, 100 miles northwest of Warsaw. They have been charged in last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a militant supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. It was Chmielewski's turn to testify last week, and the thought that his life might...
...accused men have been reduced to the rank of private, including the kidnapers' confessed ringleader, Grzegorz Piotrowski, a former captain. Chmielewski supported previous testimony by his co-defendant, Leszek Pekala, that Piotrowski had summoned them to discuss taking "actions to frighten Father Popieluszko." Chmielewski said that after he raised questions about whether the priest, who had a weak heart, could survive such harsh treatment, Piotrowski consulted with his superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock, about what to do if Popieluszko died. Later, Piotrowski explained that it had taken some time for the colonel...
According to the indictment, Secret Police Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, 33, the suspected ringleader, allegedly recruited two lieutenants from the security forces, Leszek Pekala, 32, and Waldemar Chmielewski, 29, to silence Popieluszko. The officers believed that they would be protected by their superiors. Pekala claimed in court that "one of the deputy ministers--I do not know which one--spoke of interrupting Popieluszko's activities." The action, he said, was "to take place outside the law." The prosecution named Secret Police Colonel Adam Pietruszka, 47, as the man who gave the orders; he pleaded innocent to the accusation that he aided...
...said he had no evidence to back up the assertion that the priest had been murdered. Kisczak identified the two other kidnappers as Lts. Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala...
...investors missed the market slide. An Atlanta woman sold her stocks in May and put the $23,000 proceeds into underdeveloped land. "I won't have to worry about it every day," she says. Thomas H. Chmielewski, 29, a business planner at General Electric in Manhattan, has minimized his losses by buying in the Japanese stock market as well as on Wall Street. Last spring he put $6,000 into Nomura Securities Co., an investment banking house, and $4,000 into Ikegai Iron Works, a machine-tool company. Ikegai has risen slightly; Nomura declined, but nowhere near as much...