Word: wyszynski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many observers familiar with the Polish events of 1980 doubt that the Pope would have engaged in shuttle diplomacy on Solidarity's behalf just when the head of the Polish church, the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, was publicly calling on workers to scale down their demands. And even if such intercession did take place in August 1980, why should the Soviets try to kill the Pope nine months later, when Solidarity was already well established? Finally, if the Soviets were so concerned about papal intervention, why didn't that prevent them from ordering a Polish-executed crackdown last...
...armed camp and quickly dispersed a crowd of 200 young demonstrators. In Warsaw, several hundred Poles braved water cannons to add flowers, greenery and pictures of Walesa and Pope John Paul II to the now famous cross laid out in Victory Square to honor the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. But late last week authorities sealed off the square with a sturdy 6-ft.-high gray wooden fence. Still, as one veteran Western diplomat in Warsaw said of these latest acts of derring-do: "This is what Poles do best. But what does it gain them...
There were other such reminders on that anniversary day. In the early morning hours, the authorities moved into Warsaw's Victory Square and, for the fifth time since May, swept away the 40-ft. flower cross that serves as a popular memorial to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. By the time official military ceremonies began at noon at the adjacent Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing...
...Council of Ministers unspecified "special powers." It did not take long for Poles to see for themselves that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw's Victory Square to honor Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate who died last year. It was the fourth time that the authorities had swept away the cross. Later in the day, as special honor guards marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Square, squads of the ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used...
Every evening, rain or shine, a crowd forms around a huge cross of flowers lying in the center of Warsaw's Victory Square. This floral tribute to Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last year, has become the most potent political symbol in Poland today. Three times the government has swept it away, and three times it has been rebuilt by the crowds who come to pray and intone hymns. The cross is tended by a group of women who patiently replace wilted flowers every day under the watchful eyes of militiamen. Late each night the police move...