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...official concern for the Pope's safety seemed exaggerated, the Polish police had good reason to fear an outbreak of antigovernment demonstrations. After the Pope left St. John's Cathedral, Solidarity supporters rallied in front of the Royal Palace and began to march through downtown Warsaw to the headquarters of the Communist Party Central Committee. Soon the crowd had swelled to 30,000. Gray-haired grandmothers walked resolutely alongside teenagers. Little girls riding on the shoulders of their fathers flashed the victory sign. If the procession, at times, had the air of a carnival, there were also moments...
...demonstrators shouted their slogans even louder: "No freedom without Solidarity," "Freedom of speech," "We want truth." When a group of priests waved from a church balcony, the crowd picked up the chant, "The priests are with us. The Pope is with us." Crucifixes bobbed alongside Solidarity banners and Polish flags. Said a Warsaw University student: "The Pope's presence gives the people courage to say what they think. What you see here is the real Poland...
...arrival, underground union activists had pulled off a daring propaganda ploy. At about 7:30 p.m., Radio Solidarity suddenly broke into officially controlled air waves to broadcast an old recording of John Paul praising the ideals of the banned union. Before the clandestine program could be drowned out, Polish listeners heard a message for the Pope from Zbigniew Bujak, who, as the fugitive former leader of Warsaw's Solidarity branch, is high on the government's "most wanted" list. Said Bujak: "We welcome you amid the continuing struggle for our union's rights, for freedom for those...
...somewhere along the route to greet the Pope." Despite the bravado, the estimated 50 members of the underground are in a quandary about what to do next. As the spontaneous display of support in Warsaw last week illustrated, Solidarity still commands the allegiance of a substantial part of the Polish population. But none of that translates into real political
...Warsaw's Tenth Anniversary soccer stadium for an open-air Mass on the second day of the Pope's visit. Some of them had arrived more than 24 hours early in order to greet the Pontiff. The crowd included delegations from Gdansk, Poznan, Radom, Lublin and other Polish cities. There were uniformed boy scouts, nurses in white tunics, peasant women in brightly colored scarves, and Silesian miners in black uniforms and tall hats topped with black feathers. Farmers from Lowicz, 50 miles southwest of Warsaw, were dressed in their native costume: straw hats with blue ribbons, elaborately embroidered...