Word: militiamen
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...told a group of P.L.O. officers in Syria that "effective war is the only available means for redrawing the political map [of the Middle East]." Nor has the war restored Lebanon to the relative stability it once enjoyed. Beirut is again threatened by violence between long-feuding Christian Phalangist militiamen and Druze fighters. Worse, Gemayel's bold decision to go ahead with the Israeli agreement places him on a collision course with a newly rearmed and perhaps overly confident Syria...
...read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...Warsaw's Old Town to celebrate, following a school examination. When they came out, they were stopped by a militia patrol. Przemyk was seized and severely beaten. An official statement later said he had been involved in a drunken brawl and had to be "forcibly calmed" when the militiamen took him to a first-aid station. Przemyk's friends denied the charge. Przemyk died two days later, after undergoing emergency surgery. In an emotional letter to Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poet Wiktor Woroszylski wrote that "the surgeons who opened up the boy's abdomen had nothing more...
...government's response underscored a harsh reality for supporters of Solidarity: the banned movement has never recovered from the beating it took a year ago, when militiamen first began to crack down on demonstrators. In the meantime, the government has been quietly encouraging thousands of former union activists to leave Poland for the West. Since last July, the U.S. has felt obliged to admit about 1,200 former internees and their families for humanitarian reasons...
...detained, although most were released within 48 hours. Only one person died: a printshop worker whose body was found outside a restaurant in downtown Nowa Huta, a mile from the site of the nearest demonstrations. A second round of protests, two days later, was broken up by police and militiamen with equal ease. In a particularly brutal incident, "hooligans" believed to have been recruited by the secret police invaded St. Martin's Church in Warsaw and beat up a number of volunteer workers who were serving on a committee to help the city's unemployed...