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...believe "myths, legends and half-truths." It was a clear reference to John Paul's homily in Czestochowa, in which he cited examples of heroic self-sacrifice from Poland's 1,000-year history. Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski blamed "Western countries and their media" for turning the papal visit into an "antisocialist demonstration." Equally blunt criticism came from Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, who hinted that "relations between church and state" might be damaged by the Pope's visit. Said he: "We did not rent him the country for a week...
...this place and pay homage," in a reference to a memorial to Polish workers slain in Poznan during riots in 1956. The monument, which consists of two intertwined crosses next to a stylized Polish eagle, was erected during the Solidarity era and was conspicuously omitted from the list of papal stops in the city...
...hope of catching just a glimpse of the waving Pontiff as he sped by in his Popemobile. If John Paul could not visit the Poznan memorial, a crowd of several hundred people managed to avoid police blockades and rally by the twin crosses. A lonely yellow-and-white papal banner was left behind in the empty torch of an eternal flame that was extinguished soon after the military crackdown in December...
...Upper Silesian coal-mining region. The heavy downpour did little to dampen the spirit of the crowd of 1.2 million that was waiting for John Paul under a forest of umbrellas in a vacant airfield outside the city. When the Silesians spotted the Pope stepping from the papal helicopter, they let loose with a boisterous chorus of Sto Lat (May You Live a Hundred Years), all but drowning out a brass band of black-suited miners...
...Pope John Paul II, a story of potent political import. As it turned out, Poland performed impressively for an Iron Curtain country. There were few overt obstacles to coverage, except a lack of open, informed sources and an enforced distance from the main events. Lamented one photographer: "Every papal trip, I have to get a bigger lens because I am farther away...