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...windows or on balconies, their faces reflected sullen amazement, fearful wonder and, finally, bittersweet joy. In an extraordinary pageant of the spirit, they gathered a million strong for Mass in a Warsaw stadium. When John Paul went to Czestochowa a million more covered the grassy slopes around the Jasna Gora monastery. Some Poles held banners in red and white, indiscriminately mixing religion and politics in messages such as HOPE-SOLIDARITY and YOU ARE THE REAL FATHER OF SOLIDARITY. Others laid flowers along the papal path or held up plain wooden crosses as tokens of what their nation had suffered...
...trip. But the thought of the Black Madonna's "tear-filled and sad" eyes said John Paul moved him to reflect again on Poland's recent troubled history. While a crowd of a million people listened from the open fields and woods below the Jasna Gora shrine, the Pope described the creation of Solidarity in August...
Last week the Soviets struck back. They barred American diplomats from bathing at Nikolina Gora beach, an hour's drive west of Moscow on the Moskva River. "It is unfortunate that the Soviet government has taken this position," said Mayor Parente, "but I will have no further comment until I meet with the State Department." Talks between Glen Cove and Foggy Bottom officials were scheduled for next week. Complained State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg, as much to Moscow as to Mayor Parente: "The U.S. Government is making every effort to have the prohibition by the Glen Cove authorities lifted...
...national presidium telexed union locals at week's end to demand a halt to wildcat strikes. But the protests continued to spread. In the city of Zyrardow, near Warsaw, 12,000 textile workers entered the third week of a sit-in to demand more food. In Zielona Gora province, 150,000 workers continued their week-old strike to protest the firing of a local Solidarity farm manager. In Tarnobrzeg province, 180,000 stayed off the job because of inadequate food supplies. And in southern Sosnowiec, near Katowice, angry miners launched an open-ended strike to protest a bizarre incident...
Meanwhile, it appeared that a new cycle of labor calm might ease the rising tensions. In southwestern Jelenia Gora, workers ended a two-day general strike after the government agreed to convert a party sanitarium into a public hospital. After Jaruzelski's dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with...