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Swiss commandos lift the bizarre siege of a Polish embassy...
...commando-style operation unfolded in typically Swiss fashion: it was a combination of precise timing and meticulous efficiency. At 10:42 a.m. last Thursday, a young, casually dressed, plainclothes policeman placed an aluminum container on the front doorstep of a three-story, white stucco mansion that houses the Polish embassy in the leafy Kirchenfeld neighborhood of Bern. Then the policeman climbed back into his beige Volkswagen and slowly drove away. Seconds later, the parcel exploded. The front door of the residence dissolved in smoke and flame, and some 20 members of an elite Bern police squad burst into the building...
...ended a bizarre siege in which members of a selfstyled, inchoate Polish "Independent Home Army" imposed a brief reign of terror upon their country's local embassy. The terrorists' demands during the siege were hopelessly quixotic: curtailment of martial law in Poland, the release of all political prisoners held in that beleaguered country, and "an end to repression of the Polish "people" by the military regime run by General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...assault marked the first time that Communist Poland's martial-law troubles have spilled over into violent protest in the West. It gave Poland's government an opportunity to vilify the suspended Solidarity trade union, only a week after a harsh crackdown on tens of thousands of Polish demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate the second anniversary of Solidarity's founding. Said Warsaw's Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu: "Solidarity extremists are now switching, as proved by numerous facts, to terrorist activities." But the terrorist action was energetically denounced by spokesmen for Solidarity, who disclaimed...
DIED. Wladyslaw Gomulka, 77, Polish leader who retained a fierce loyalty to traditional Communist dogma despite his "Polish road to socialism" approach that irritated the Kremlin; of cancer; in Warsaw. Once considered one of the most influential leaders in the Communist world, Gomulka insisted that Communist countries should retain a degree of independence in domestic matters, even while supporting the general Soviet policy line, a view that resulted in his removal in 1948 as Poland's leader. Jailed from 1951 to 1954 for opposing Stalinist economic collectivization, he returned to power in 1956 following the Poznan "bread and freedom...