Word: jozef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jozef Pinior, one of five fugitive Solidarity leaders who met with former union chief Lecb Walesa on April 9-11, was taken into custody in his hometown of Wroelaw, according to a dispatch by the official Polish news agency...
Although 50 Polish bishops were at St. Peter's, the country's Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, stayed at home because of his fear of civil unrest. He celebrated an outdoor Mass at Niepokalanow (City of the Immaculate), a friary founded by Kolbe 25 miles west of Warsaw. John Paul, in a noontime address following the canonization, denounced the dissolution of the independent union Solidarity as "a violation of the fundamental rights of man and society." (Poland's state radio and television censored this criticism in its coverage of the ceremonies.) Next day, facing an audience...
...take some comfort in the knowledge that Poles themselves are keeping the faith, even in the face of death. As Archbishop Jozef Glemp said Sunday in response to the banning. "We know that what is just, what is an ideal, cannot fall. Structures can be abolished, but no idea can disappear...
...extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect the presence of Polish Attaché Jozef Matusiak, who was concealed in an attic. Eventually, Matusiak managed to crawl through a window onto the shingled embassy roof, and Swiss commandos standing by with ladders hauled him to safety...
...Free Walesa, or make it possible for him to speak as a free man." When Archbishop Jozef Glemp uttered those words from a balcony of the medieval monastery at Czestochowa last week, more than 350,000 worshipers burst into prolonged cheers and applause, many of them raising their hands in victory signs. The pilgrims had come from every corner of Poland to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the "Black Madonna," the Roman Catholic nation's holiest shrine. As the government prepared to clamp down this week on demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the creation of the independent...