Word: lubin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spartan school looks luxurious compared with the St. Lucia School of Medicine, opened with great fanfare last September by Edward Antar, owner of a New York discount electronics chain called Crazy Eddie's. "They had nothing," says Cornelius Lubin, an official in St. Lucia's Ministry of Health. "No labs, no cadavers." The school quietly closed in March. Closed less quietly was the Centre de Investigacion y Formacion Social. CIFAS was one of two Dominican medical schools shut down in May as part of the local government's effort to clear the rep utation of its university...
...David Lubin...
Government forces responded with barrages of tear gas, crippling blasts from mobile water cannons and, in the southwestern town of Lubin, a lash of bullets that left at least two workers dead and twelve wounded. Another demonstrator died of bullet wounds in the nearby city of Wroclaw, while a 22-year-old man was found dead following disturbances in Gdansk. They were Poland's first fatalities in political demonstrations since Dec. 16, when nine striking miners were shot by security forces at the Wujek colliery after the imposition of martial law. In the wake of the rioting, the government...
...bloodiest clash erupted in Lubin when a squad of policemen were confronted by enraged demonstrators, who allegedly hurled rocks and gasoline bombs. After firing blanks as a warning, the police unleashed a volley of lead. Officials reported two deaths, although some local witnesses put the total at five...
Following the rioting, a strict curfew was clamped down on Lubin and six other towns and cities. Lubin protesters, however, skirmished with police for two more days, burning at least one building to the ground. The government reacted to the disturbances with strong hints that Solidarity might soon be banned outright. Government Spokesman Urban told foreign reporters that "the entire leadership of Solidarity cannot be considered as worthy partners for negotiations." From now on, he said, the regime would plead its case directly with the workers, whose "hearts and minds," he claimed, were now closer to the government...