Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lange made headlines recently when he refused to let a U.S. destroyer dock in New Zealand because the Navy would not carrying nuclear weapons...
...week trial, finally broke down and wept last week. Moments before, Judge Artur Kujawa had sentenced Piotrowski to 25 years in prison for the brutal murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. As Kujawa dryly explained his conduct of the trial, Piotrowski dropped his head to the wooden railing of the dock and wept...
...terms of other local issues, Law says he is committed to supporting the lobsterman's cooperative, a union which is being squeezed out of the Boston harbor, and has pledged the archdiocese's resources to finding a permanent dock location for these workers...
...secret police. But although he said that at one time he had mistakenly believed the orders to abduct Popieluszko came from "the top," he allowed the stain of complicity to go no further than his immediate superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock. Like two of his co-defendants, former Lieutenants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, who testified two weeks ago, Piotrowski said he assumed that the idea to abduct the priest was sponsored by people senior enough to shield him from prosecution. "All the time, I was certain that this cannot be Adam...
...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 to go "to the top" for approval. Chmielewski told the court that "by the top, I understood one of the department directors of the Interior Ministry or a deputy minister." Chmielewski...