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...Alone. Carloads of students quickly brought word of Warsaw's defiance to other university cities. At the country's oldest seat of higher learning, Cracow's 14th century Jagellonian University, some 10,000 students surged through Old Market Square carrying placards that promised "Warsaw is not alone." Shouting down professors who called for calm, they cut classes and jostled with police the next day. In Lublin, at the Communist bloc's only Roman Catholic university, several students were arrested after clashing with police. Elsewhere, bitter but nonviolent protest flared-in Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The View from Headquarters | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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