Word: zenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tightened the reins on critics, the government purged the Interior Ministry. Government Spokesman Urban said that General Zenon Platek, the immediate superior of the four men convicted at Toruan, would remain suspended from duty and that his department would be broken up. Urban announced the suspension of Warsaw Police Colonel Leszek Wolski, who had allegedly known in advance of the Popieluszko plot...
Jaruzelski's trip notwithstanding, there was no shortage of drama at the trial. General Zenon Platek, 58, the suspended official of the Interior Ministry assigned to monitor church activities, made the surprising claim that the ministry was aware of a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his 1983 visit to Poland and that several people with explosives were arrested. A Vatican spokesman said last week that he was not aware of such a plot, as did Warsaw's official spokesman, Jerzy Urban. Platek also claimed that just before Popieluszko's murder, the priest was to be dispatched...
...directors of the Interior Ministry or a deputy minister." Chmielewski claimed that Piotrowski told him after the murder that they had no reason to fear the investigating commission set up in the Interior Ministry. Piotrowski said that it would be made up of the "right people" and mentioned General Zenon Platek, director of the religious affairs department, and secret-police colonel Zbigniew Jablonski...
...trade could severely weaken, rather than bolster, international commerce. It fosters bilateral agreements at the expense of multilateral trade and can reduce over all world commerce. Says Franklin Root, head of the Wharton School's international business program: "Such arrangements are anathema to the free market." Others disagree. Zenon Carnapas, head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, says that countertrade deals are "a solution of last resort" for struggling LDCS. Still, no one disputes that postwar prosperity was built on the foundation of free and growing trade among nations...