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Fearing that the tragic news might spark street demonstrations and clashes with police, church leaders and Solidarity activists appealed for calm. During his weekly audience at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II urged his countrymen not to disturb "the great moral eloquence of this death." Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa asked Poles to observe "the silence of mourning." Said he: "They wanted to kill, and they killed not only a man, not only a Pole, not only a priest. They wanted to kill the hope that it is possible in Poland to avoid violence in political life...
WARSAW, Poland--Solidarity leader Lech Walesa urged supporters yesterday to avoid being provoked into "bloody revolution" by the kidnapping of a pro-Solidarity priest, who the Interior Ministry says was abducted and possibly killed by three of its own officers...
...anybody pull us into brawls in which we will lose," said Walesa, contacted by telephone at his apartment in the northern port of Gdansk. "We simply cannot let anybody manipulate us into any situation...
...Walesa, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, said he appealed for restraint in a speech to worshipers following a Mass at St. Brygida's Church in Gdansk...
...somebody assumed it would be a revolution, I won't give him a bloody revolution." Walesa said. "I am for peaceful evolution...