Word: lis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southern neighborhood of Orunia one night, 200 troops and antiterrorist police swooped down on a four-story apartment house and began a floor-by-floor sweep of the building. Residents who did not respond had their doors broken down. On the roof, police cornered their quarry: Bogdan Lis, 31, a former leader of Solidarity, the outlawed trade union, and the No. 2 man in the antigovernment underground. He had been in hiding since martial law was declared...
Though the opposition's top figure, Zbigniew Bujak, 29, remained at large, the capture of Lis depressed efforts to organize a boycott of Sunday's elections for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local posts. Lis had led the campaign, urging Poles to deny the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski the opportunity to claim it had the support of the people...
Polish authorities announced that Lis was captured with several incriminating documents, including a letter from a Solidarity leader in Brussels indicating that the AFL-CIO, the giant U.S. labor organization, had contributed $200,000 to the under ground and suggesting that more money might be forthcoming if the election boy cott was successful. Lis was charged with failing to end his role in Solidarity when the trade union was suspended, founding an illegal organization, entering into agreements with foreign organizations and using false identity documents...
...accessories. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, a bickering pair of tourists (James Stewart and Doris Day) allow their son to wander off into a kidnaper's clutches, as a dying man's guilty secret sticks to Stewart ike the swarthy makeup that comes off in lis hands...
PRINCETON (61)--Karen Konigsberg 0-2-2; Lis Lester 1-1-3; Lois Hatzenbeller 2-0-4; Margaret Nilemann 3-5-11; Sarah Tantillo 0-0-0; Kate Delhagen 9-1-19; DeVoe 6-2-14; Lisa Greenberg 4-0-8; Totals...