Word: martialled
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...people bitterly resentful of rights consistently denied them and ready to battle for them. Walesa wrote of a country just beginning to shake off its feeling of resignation, and just starting to realize the importance of fighting for freedom. He conceded that "the introduction of martial law brutally demonstrated the limits of progress attainable in Poland today...
...Exiled Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung announced that he will come to Harvard as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs next year. A former South Korean presidential candidate and a long-time opponent of the Korean martial law government, Kim came to the United States last December after years of imprisonment and harassment. (For a look at Harvard as a haven for international refuges, see page...
...political views would hold enormous appeal to virtually every member of the hodgepodge Commencement audience, from the most outspoken student radical to the stodgiest reactionary alumnus. Moreover, his very presence on campus would be an international event, marking Walesa's first trip outside Poland since Communist authorities there imposed martial law in December 1981, and his first visit to the United States ever...
...largest public gatherings since martial law was imposed 17 months ago, nearly 60,000 people thronged the church for the funeral services and joined in the hour-long procession to the cemetery. Fastened to the front of the casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality...
Przemyk was the son of Barbara Sadowska, a poet who had been briefly interned after the imposition of martial law in December 1981. She later became active in a committee set up by Poland's Primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, to assist martial law prisoners and their families. Earlier this month, she was one of several people beaten when hoodlums invaded the committee's offices in a Warsaw convent; she suffered bruises and a broken finger when she was hit with a chair. Four other workers were dragged to a truck and later dumped in a suburban forest...