Word: piotrowski
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...ASAT program involves launching an 18-ft. satellite buster from a high- flying F-15 aircraft, but it is plagued by problems. Moreover, the Air Force now expects the fledgling system to cost $5.3 billion -- more than an aircraft carrier. Nonetheless, argues U.S. Vice Chief of Staff General John Piotrowski, "there's no question in my mind that we have a compelling need to deter the Soviets from attacking our satellites...
...Grzegorz Piotrowski, the cashiered secret-police captain who was in turn arrogant and stony-faced during the six-week trial, finally broke down and wept last week. Moments before, Judge Artur Kujawa had sentenced Piotrowski to 25 years in prison for the brutal murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. As Kujawa dryly explained his conduct of the trial, Piotrowski dropped his head to the wooden railing of the dock and wept...
...remorse but relief, for he could have fared much worse: the state prosecutor had requested the death penalty. Also sentenced to long terms for aiding Piotrowski in the abduction and killing of Popieluszko last October were two subordinates in the security forces, Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. Pekala, who drove the kidnap car, received 15 years, and Chmielewski, whose stuttering, tear-filled testimony gave the trial some of its most dramatic moments, got 14 years. Adam Pietruszka, the former colonel who flatly denied Piotrowski's accusations that he had encouraged the killing, received a 25-year jail term...
...Kujawa, sitting beneath a heraldic eagle of Poland, sentenced Pietruszka, the defendant stared impassively. "They have brought shame on the state, the citizens and the system," declared Kujawa solemnly. "They have slandered the good name of Poland." In announcing the sentences, Kujawa drew a distinction between Pietruszka and Piotrowski, whom he described as the decision makers, and their subordinates. Kujawa explained that he chose not to order Piotrowski hanged because Polish law states that punishment should seek to educate and frighten the criminal, not simply avenge the crime. Indeed, lawyers representing Popieluszko's family and his driver, Waldemar Chrostowski...
...murder was engineered by government hard-liners to embarrass Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. But the carefully controlled trial left many unanswered questions and the pervasive feeling that the authorities may have protected high-ranking officials from being implicated in the killing. Some Poles believed that - Piotrowski deserved the death penalty, and there was widespread skepticism that the four men would be made to serve out their sentences...