Word: radom
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...some 70 localities, demonstrators marched through the streets, staged sit-down strikes, even overturned a locomotive and tore up tracks on the main line from Warsaw to the west. The most violent outbreak occurred in Radom, a factory town of 180,000 in central Poland, where at least 75 policemen as well as hundreds of workers were injured and the Communist Party headquarters was set afire...
Gierek quickly backed down and canceled the price increases. But that was only a temporary maneuver. In a show trial designed to brand the Radom protesters as vandals, six carefully chosen defendants-all had criminal records-were sentenced to four to ten years at hard labor on charges of looting and destruction of state property. At the same time nearly 700 ordinary Radom workers were hauled into summary trials held in secret. About 80% of them reportedly were given sentences of six months to five years at hard labor. Most of the others were dismissed from their jobs, which...
...gain the full confidence of Poland's disgruntled workers. He is replacing unpopular local party officials with men and women from the factories. He continues to send ministers and high party officials scurrying throughout the country to talk with workers and farmers. Last week he personally visited Radom, Kielce and Katowice, matter-of-factly explaining to workers the impoverished state of the economy and appealing for understanding and help...
...technically impartial position, openly urged Poles to vote against the Communist-dominated Government. The Government thundered back: "The Vatican is a friend of the Germans!" Anti-Semitic terrorists circulated stories that the Government had allowed Jews to torture and kill 160 non-Jewish Poles imprisoned in the city of Radom. The extreme rightist underground paper Honor & Fatherland proclaimed that, unless the U.S. and Britain eventually severed relations with the Government, Poland's only hope was a future war between the great powers...
...then in another. He had supervised the advance of the East Prussian divisions which, in the first days of the war, drove straight for Warsaw, only to be held up momentarily at Pultusk and Plonsk. These obstacles overcome, he shifted to the scene of the next most stubborn resistance, Radom-and Radom fell. Three days later he was directing operations against Kutno, the only place west of Warsaw where the Poles were still holding out-and Kutno also fell. This week he was reported in the South, directing the swift drive through the Ukraine to Rumania that would tighten Poland...