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This is no idle boast. The charismatic Walesa, 37, has emerged as a national hero who can mobilize hundreds of thousands of workers. During a five-day tour of southern Poland, he was greeted by large and enthusiastic throngs. The emotional high point came in Cracow, where he was swept up by the crowd and carried on shoulders two miles to the old city's Market Square. There he raised his hand and declared: "I swear that I will not disappoint you in that which we do and intend to do." The gathering of 30,000 responded with chants...
...round out the story's political and historical background. Kohan normally covers Religion for TIME. But he speaks Polish (and Russian) and has visited both countries three times in the past five years. For a month in 1979 he studied Polish language and culture at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. This year he spent five weeks reporting from Moscow for our special edition on the Soviet Union. For this week's story Kohan worked his Polish contacts in the U.S., including some who are in touch with members of the Polish opposition, and combed his own personal files for pertinent facts...
Work stoppages also broke out at the massive Nowa Huta steel complex, near Cracow. There were even reports of strike activity in the mining region of Silesia, Gierek's birthplace and political stronghold. At the Gdansk shipyard, which remained the nerve center of the Baltic upheaval, workers set up a central committee that claimed to represent the striking factories and enterprises along the coast...
...Amateur Athletic Union. "No college scholarships, no fancy cars. What we can offer them is a chance to see the world." Surkien fought back tears as he spoke: he had just learned that 14 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team, flying from New York City to matches in Cracow and Katowice, had died in the crash of a Polish IL-62 jetliner near Warsaw's Okecie Airport. The disaster, which took the lives of all 77 passengers and ten crew members, was the worst air crash in Poland's history...
...bestselling items, however, was the genuine article. Infinity Records, an appropriately named division of MCA, last week released 1 million copies of Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong. The recording was made in June when the Pope returned to Cracow, Poland, to take part in the sacred-music festival he had founded eleven years earlier as Karol Cardinal Wojtyla. When he sang along spontaneously with the Sacrosong singers, the Pope's voice was captured on a master tape that MCA obtained. Rock stations last week were playing the Pope in the company...