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There were other signs that the Polish people had not abandoned their yearning for freedom. At midweek about 1,000 farmers attended a special Mass in Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral to commemorate the official registration one year ago of Rural Solidarity, the now suspended agricultural union...
David Sullivan and William Walsh don't agree on much of anything concerning Cambridge city politics. In fact, the two men have become symbolic of the diametrically opposed poles of opinion that now dominate debates over the honest political issue in the city: housing policy. But City Councilor Sullivan, a...
During the dark days after General Wojciech Jaruzelski's imposition of martial law last December, a defiant slogan appeared on walls and in underground publications: "The winter is yours, the spring will be ours." Last week, as tulips bloomed in Lazienki Park and the sun streamed down on the...
In Warsaw, the riots erupted two days after more than 20,000 residents had marched through the capital's old city in a counterdemonstration aimed at the official May Day parade that was passing through the city's major thoroughfares. Anxious not to cast a pall on a...
The date had special significance for history-conscious Poles. It commemorated the liberal 1791 constitution that had given Poland a bill of rights. As thousands of people, most of them young, gathered in Castle Square, militiamen in padded uniforms massed in squads of 100 or more at the entrances to...