Solidarity Leaders Deny Gdansk Court Accusations
Three Solidarity leaders Bogdan Lis Adam Michnik and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk told a Gdansk court they are innocent on charges of inciting unrest and illegal union activity The trial began May 23 and a verdict was promised for Friday Walesa warned the trial could reopen political repression in Poland and the defendants did not seek acquittal to protest proceedings
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Poland
Solidarity
Bogdan Lis
Adam Michnik
Wladyslaw Frasyniuk
Krzysztof Zieniuk
Frasyniuk
Michnik
Lis
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Lenin
Lis, Michnik
Wroclaw
Soviet Bloc
Agca testifies on prisoner escape promise in papal shooting case
Mehmet Ali Agca told an Italian court he delayed cooperation for a year after alleged co conspirators promised to secure his prison escape or kidnapping. He named Vassilev Kolev or Oral Celik, and discussed the disappearance linked to freeing him. The Vatican messenger’s daughter Emanuela Orlandi’s fate was also raised.
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Mehmet Ali Agca
John Paul II
Agca
St. Peter’s Square
John Paul
Severino Santiapichi
Santiapichi
Vassilev Kolev
Oral Celik
Celik
Zhelya Kolev Vassilev
Bulgaria
Emanuela Orlandi
Vatican
Controversial education reforms target academic freedoms
Poland plans to rewrite the education law giving the education minister power to dismiss professors transfer staff reject courses and expel students. Sources say changes aim to tighten Communist Party control over universities triggering warnings from dissident Edward Lipinski about annihilating academic self governance.
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Poland
Free Trade Union
Solidarity
Edward Lipinski
Polish Academy of Sciences
Soviet Ship Mikhail Somov Trapped in Antarctic Ice
The Soviet research ship Mikhail Somov remains immobile on an ice floe near Antarctica after being trapped since March. An icebreaker is en route but not due for three weeks. Seventy seven people were evacuated by helicopter to safety and the mission to resupply the Soviet station continues.
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England
U.S. Air Force
U.S
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Fresno
Calif
London
Mikhail Somov
Antarctic
Antarctica
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