Word: gora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jasna Gora monastery, the most sacred shrine in Poland, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski last week blasted grow ing Communist efforts to curtail church activities. Speaking to groups of the more than 100,000 pilgrims gathered to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, the cardinal cited a government ban on organized pilgrimages and pro tested against roadblocks where some pilgrims had been harassed during the trip to the shrine, enduring their own "Way of the Cross." Ostensibly, the ban resulted from a smallpox outbreak in the vicinity, but there was no inter ference with nonreligious tourists...
...Silesian city of Zielona Gora-which was Germany's Grünberg until Poland took it over after World War II-a truckload of town laborers pulled up one morning last week before a onetime German Evangelical Church, used since the Polish takeover as a Catholic parish house. As the workmen set about tossing out furniture to convert it to a community center, beshawled women clutching their rosary beads gathered and shouted imprecations. Soon husbands and sons came up, and a crowd of 5,000 was marching on the police headquarters. When somebody began to throw stones...
...both Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and Catholic Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Zielona Gora outburst-the second spontaneous flare-up of church-state conflict in five weeks (TIME, May9)-was a grave embarrassment. Each is aware that ultimately Christ or the Commissar must back down in Poland, but each also dreads anything that might spark a nationwide uprising and thereby provoke the Soviets to give Warsaw the Budapest treatment. But in troubled Poland, the hands of both leaders are increasingly being forced...