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...streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour riot: two dead, nine injured and more than 500 arrested...
Daunting too were the three days of continuous celebrations. To extend a royal welcome, Queen Elizabeth II joined the 800 returning scholars and 600 spouses for a vast outdoor garden party. In the intermittent sunshine of an English June, the Queen circulated amiably through a riot of improbable hats and tropical colors rivaling those at Ascot; then she tucked into tea, eclairs and watercress sandwiches under a striped marquee...
...Pope traveled the next day to Wroclaw, an industrial city in southwestern Poland that has also been the scene of heated clashes between riot police and Solidarity demonstrators. Security officials were afraid that an unguarded word from John Paul would spark renewed street violence. On the eve of the visit, convoys of blue and gray military and police vehicles patrolled the city. Helicopters hovered ominously above as pilgrims made their way in the early-morning light to the city's race track for an open-air Mass...
When the marchers arrived at Central Committee headquarters, they found their route blocked by several hundred riot policemen. For a few tense moments they waited in front of the phalanx armed with shields and clubs. But security officials had apparently been told to avoid a confrontation at all cost; with uncharacteristic courtesy, they used their bullhorns to announce: "We are kindly asking you to please disperse." The spontaneous protest ended peacefully, but not before Solidarity supporters had taunted the riot squad with the cry: "See you tomorrow...
...Poland, more trouble lies ahead this week. On Monday the Pope visits Poznan and Katowice, an industrial city where steelworkers and coal miners put up stiff resistance to martial law. Then John Paul moves on to Wroclaw, scene of some of the most violent clashes between Solidarity demonstrators and riot police. His trip will end with a sentimental return to his home town of Cracow...