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...spectacle of a secret-police officer being called to account for crimes against a dissident priest was a unique event in a Soviet-bloc country. But as the courtroom drama unfolded, questions remained about just how far the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski was prepared to go if testimony implicates high officials in the regime. Said a skeptical former activist for Solidarity: "Those who really put Father Popieluszko to death will not sit on the defendants' bench...
...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...
...conspirators apparently devised three different plans against Popieluszko, ranging from harassment and torture to murder. Pekala also revealed that the priest almost escaped his captors when they stopped in a hotel parking...
...Sandinistas suffered some embarrassments of their own last week. After five years of warnings, the Society of Jesus expelled Fernando Cardenal Martinez when the priest refused to resign as Nicaragua's Education Minister. Jesuit officials in Rome cited a 1983 canon law that forbids priests to hold posts that carry civil powers. In a 19-page open letter, Cardenal defended his job as a "pact with the poor." There was no word from the Vatican on the three other priests in the Nicaraguan government, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
...French settlers are opposed by the native Melanesians, or Kanaks, who claim sovereignty over the territory and want only Kanaks to vote in the referendum on self-determination, which France had slated for 1989. The Kanaks have already installed Jean-Marie Tjibaou, 48, a former Roman Catholic priest, as provisional President. In order to prevent further violence, Pisani is expected to seek a speedier solution. Said a French government official: "It's obvious that we must move quickly...