Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to the Polish government, there had been demonstrations in 20 cities. About 1,000 people were 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...
...ground that this would not be "beneficial to public order." At week's end police seized former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and several aides in Warsaw. The "charge": meeting secretly with other members of the banned labor union and attempting to draft a letter to the Polish parliament. Police promptly drove Walesa to his home in Gdansk, 220 miles away, where they increased the security around his apartment and prevented him from making phone calls...
DIED. Bronislau Kaper, 81, Polish-born composer of scores for such MGM films as San Francisco, Gaslight, both versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (with Clark Gable in 1935 and Marlon Brando in 1962) and Lili, for which he won an Oscar in 1953; of cancer; in Beverly Hills...
...most controversial example of this alleged duality occurred earlier this year when the Yale Glee Club--at the insistence of Giamatti and several other administrators--turned down a State Department invitation to record the Polish Solidarity Union anthem for broadcast on Voice of America...
...netwomen had entered the doubles competition in front, 4-2, and needed only one victory to polish off the Tigers for a while it seemed as if the number one doubles tandem of sophomore Elizabeth Evans and junior Maria Pe would play the role of match winners, as they turned in a flawless set of tennis, blanking Joy Cummings and Jan Shel burne, 6-0, in the first...