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...cloud of thick gray smoke and the pungent scent of burning wax wafted above the jumble of gravestones in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last Thursday. It was All Saints' Day, and thousands of Poles had crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of the dead. This year the solemn tradition had a special poignancy. The photograph of a frail, youthful man in clerical collar had been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial...
Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer entertained an audience of more than 600 in Sanders Theater last night by reading two of his short stories on life in a Warsaw ghetto...
Though a member of the seven-nation Warsaw Pact, Rumania does not permit stationing of Soviet troops or nuclear weapons on its soil. Ceauşescu declared that the European countries "bear a special responsibility for peace in Europe." Kohl, however, refused to endorse the visitor's call for opening U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks to participation by other countries...
Popieluszko, of Warsaw, had been one of the Polish Roman Catholic church's most outspoken defenders of the Solidarity free trade union movement, which was Outer wed under martial...
...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...