Poland Reopens Murder Case Involving Solidarity Priest
Arrests target two former police generals alleged to ordered the 1984 killing of Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko in a case long seen as closed. Authorities also charge a former interior minister and six others with taking gold and jewelry bribes dating to 1971 as Poland heads into a presidential race amid Democratic reform.
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
Old Guard
Jerzy Popieluszko
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Lech Walesa
Smolar
Mandela visits prisons with news of prisoner releases
Nelson Mandela returns to Pollsmoor and Robben Island to announce government plans to free political prisoners. He recalls Robben Island hard labor and describes emotional meetings with ANC comrades as enthusiasm and unity fill the rooms. He says a date by end of April 1991 targets all political prisoners for release.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
African National Congress
Mandela
Pollsmoor
Robben Island
ANC
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Mazowiecki
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Interior Ministry
Popieluszko
Fourth Department
Kim Dae Jung
Roh Tae Woo
Roh
Westdale Mall
Cedar Rapids
At Mercy Medical Center
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Mercy Medical Center
Marion
Patty Wooten
Nancy Nurse
Ms. Wooten
Mercy Education Center
Old Capitol Center