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...Waldemar Chmielewski, a former lieutenant of the Polish secret police, stood up in the defendants' box, a nervous tic on the right side of his face caused his dark mustache to twitch uncontrollably. Chmielewski and three other members of the security forces went on trial two weeks ago in the city of Toruan, 100 miles northwest of Warsaw. They have been charged in last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a militant supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. It was Chmielewski's turn to testify last week, and the thought that his life might...
...REAL THING. Aristocrats of style polish their epigrams and tiptoe into one another's penthouse souls in Tom Stoppard's Cowardian comedy. And Actor Jeremy Irons finds an intelligent heart throbbing with domestic passion...
...Brigid's Church in Gdansk last week, carrying a bouquet of red and white carnations, the former Solidarity leader hoped to walk peacefully to the monument of three crosses half a mile away. It was the 14th anniversary of the food riots of 1970, in which dozens of Polish workers were killed by troops and police, and Walesa and some 3,000 followers planned to lay flowers and wreaths at the memorial erected in honor of the martyrs. Linking arms with Bogdan Lis, a former Gdansk Solidarity leader, Walesa strode off, and the crowd fell in behind...
Switching to domestic issues, Jaruzelski maintained that Poland had made "a giant step forward," considering the "catastrophic" situation that the country had faced only three years ago. The Polish Premier once again ruled out talks with the opposition but made no direct mention of Solidarity or former Union Leader Lech Walesa. Still, the general admitted that if he could do everything over again, "tactically, many decisions could have been carried out with greater accuracy." Said Jaruzelski: "There has never been a case where the forces leading a country have engaged in such profound self-criticism...
...pitched voice betrayed a note of emotion when he discussed the Popieluszko case and Western charges that he had been involved in the murder. "No one is more interested than we are that no unclear elements remain in this case. Such doubts do harm to the Polish authorities," he said. The leader declared that the "hideous crime" had been investigated with "energy and firmness" and that the investigation had already "dug deeply into the internal-affairs apparatus and uncovered a rotten cell...