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Relations with allies are if anything more vexing for the U.S.S.R. than for the U.S. This is particularly true of Poland. The Polish Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, is determined to keep the country Communist. But he must contend with a deeply religious people for whom the Roman Catholic Church is more a symbol of national identity than is the government, and an outlawed Solidarity leadership has been brilliantly successful at keeping protest alive. So far, Jaruzelski has been performing his high-wire balancing act with great skill, at some cost to Communist orthodoxy: the current trial of members...
...Peter Mansfield, heard her hectoring Olga nearly every day when the girl was home for summer vacation and - on weekends. "We could hear her even when we turned the television up and closed the windows," Mrs. Mansfield says. "Once she carried on for hours because Olga had put red polish on her toenails...
Voice firm and eyes unyielding, the former captain of the Polish secret police recalled the night of the murder. It was, he said, the first time he had struck a man "in my adult life." He said: "I hit him at least two, most probably three or four times, in the area of the head. I have the impression I put something into his mouth. I don't know if it was really like that or if it is a scene from a dream." Pausing briefly, Grzegorz Piotrowski, the 33-year- old, soft-spoken former high school mathematics teacher declared...
Piotrowski and three other members of the Polish secret police--two lieutenants and a colonel, all now reduced to privates--are on trial for last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a priest who was an unyielding supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. As Piotrowski took the witness stand last week in Room 40 of the courthouse in the city of Torun, many expected the ex-captain to confirm the prosecution's original claim that the slaying was carried out with the knowledge and support of high-ranking members of the Internal Affairs Ministry, which...
...testimony came none too soon for Poland's Communist government. Although Polish Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski has promised the trial will not be a whitewash, many Poles believe that the government will now be able to declare that justice has been served and that a widespread investigation is unnecessary. While Piotrowski's confession shielded the powerful, it increased the chance that he would receive the death sentence. He appeared ready and willing to drag Pietruszka down with...