Word: szczecin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone." Shouting down professors who called for calm, they cut classes and jostled with police the next day. In Lublin, at the Communist bloc's only Roman Catholic university, several students were arrested after clashing with police. Elsewhere, bitter but nonviolent protest flared-in Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin in the west, in Gdansk on the Baltic and in Lodz, near Warsaw...
...moderate at all. Snarled the daily Zycie Warszawy: "Who in Poland empowered the Polish bishops to repent and forgive? On whose behalf have they done it? On behalf of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and Maidanek?" Other government papers chimed in, while "students" and "workers" rallied in Lodz, Szczecin and Warsaw to accuse the prelates of meddling in foreign affairs and sabotaging the national interest...
...Holstein resigned in protest; the Socialist chairman of the Expellees' Federation cried out against the offense to Heimatsrecht. Swastikas sprouted on walls in normally progressive Berlin. Evangelical Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover received scores of hate letters, and Berlin Editorialist Karl Silex (himself a native of Stettin, now Szczecin), who welcomed the memorandum as a departure from "taboos and legal claims," found the front door of his house in flames-the work of Hetmat-righteous zealots...
...test pilot stationed in northeast Poland, Major Obacz received official clearance to log extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When...