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Maciej Kuron has said that he will seek admission to the Roman Catholic University of Lublin, the only independent University in Poland. The Chronicle of Higher Education
...Swidnik took a walk during the 5 o'clock news broadcast. Frustrated officials finally lifted the curfew, and after a month of newswalks, Swidnik's citizens decided they had made their point and stayed home-but not before their unique piece of resistance had spread to Olsztyn, Lublin, Bialystok, even Warsaw. Explained a Swidnik news-walker: "Every contact between the people and the authorities can be used to show dissatisfaction with martial law and everyone...
...northeastern village of Zuzela and was ordained in 1924. He later wrote extensively on labor and rural problems and earned the affectionate nickname of the "worker priest." Active in the anti-Nazi resistance as an underground army chaplain in World War II, he was consecrated as the Bishop of Lublin in 1946. Two and a half years later, Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, an appointment that also made Wyszynski, at 47, the Primate of Poland-leader of the nation's church hierarchy...
...three hours the crowd swelled with new arrivals: miners from Silesia wearing their traditional long black coats and plumed czaka, railway workers from Lublin, bus drivers from Pulawy. Hundreds of thousands strong, they spilled out into side streets, waiting patiently in the early twilight while the tender strains of a Chopin piano concerto wafted from a loudspeaker. They had come to Gdansk to honor the memory of 45 workers killed by police and army bullets ten years before in riots along the Baltic coast. At long last a monument had been built: three slender trunks of steel crowned by crosses...
...Gdansk upheaval capped a seven-week wave of strikes in Poland, most of them protesting the sharp rise in meat prices since July 1. More than 200 factories and enterprises have been affected by unrest in such cities as Warsaw, Lublin, Lodz and Wroclaw. Since the strikes began, the government has offered pay increases totaling some $117 million, but has refused to lower meat prices...