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...security precautions seemed grimly ironic, considering the fact that the four men who were brought to trial in handcuffs last week were, like the policemen outside, employees of the Ministry of the Interior. The four, all secret policemen, are charged in the plot to abduct and murder Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, a Roman Catholic priest who was an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union. His bound and beaten body was discovered last October in a reservoir 85 miles north of Warsaw...
...week earlier, the Polish leader's efforts to thaw relations with the West had suffered a serious setback. West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had postponed a visit to Warsaw, largely because Polish officials told him it would be inappropriate to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union who was abducted and killed in October. The Jaruzelski government has been hurt by revelations that at least four secret-police officers were involved in the murder. The "Jablonna V" International Meeting of Journalists provided a timely opportunity for Jaruzelski...
Jaruzelski's low-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...
Jerzy Urban, the government's press spokesman, gave a few new details of the Popieluszko autopsy report last week. He said that the priest died from strangulation rather than from any injuries he sustained in a beating and was dead when his body was tossed into a reservoir 90 miles northwest of Warsaw. Earlier reports had said that Popieluszko might still have been alive when he was thrown into the water. Urban also confirmed that the four police officers arrested in the case will go on trial soon and that the proceedings will be open to the foreign press...
...month since Popieluszko was buried, his tomb in the graveyard of Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka church has been turned into a makeshift shrine, decked with wreaths and Solidarity banners. Early last week more than 30,000 Poles jammed streets surrounding the church to hear the monthly "Mass for the Fatherland" that Popieluszko began shortly before the imposition of martial law. The parish priest at St. Stanislaw Kostka, Father Teofil Bogucki, delivered a tough homily charging that 40 years after the imposition of Communism in Poland, "society is paralyzed with terror and people are worn out by hopelessness...