Word: wroclaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jaruzelski government through some anxious hours during his first days in 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...
Government forces responded with barrages of tear gas, crippling blasts from mobile water cannons and, in the southwestern town of Lubin, a lash of bullets that left at least two workers dead and twelve wounded. Another demonstrator died of bullet wounds in the nearby city of Wroclaw, while a 22-year-old man was found dead following disturbances in Gdansk. They were Poland's first fatalities in political demonstrations since Dec. 16, when nine striking miners were shot by security forces at the Wujek colliery after the imposition of martial law. In the wake of the rioting, the government...
...even bigger demonstration took place in Wroclaw, where up to 20,000 people turned out in the face of a formidable array of police and army units. According to one report, the authorities had sent some 15,000 extra police troops to Wroclaw in anticipation of major trouble. The main battle started in front of the city opera house. As in Gdansk, demonstrators erected barricades and hurled Molotov cocktails at police vans, setting at least one on fire. Some residents even dropped flowerpots and bottles from their windows on passing ZOMO troops...
...Bialoleka detention camp no doubt had that ambiguity in mind when they dressed a snowman in a general's cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. The repercussions were recounted in From Day to Day, an underground Solidarity bulletin that was closed down by security forces in Wroclaw last week...
...father, Lech Walesa, 38, was far away, interned by the Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would be allowed to participate by the hard-line government, the archbishop can offer only a prayer...