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Word: modzelewski (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That same evening three miles away, thousands of Poles congregated in a church courtyard. After saying Mass, Warsaw Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski solemnly blessed the dark marble tombstone that marks the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a revered priest who was murdered by secret police in October 1984. Earlier, the crowd of 8,000 waved the red-and-white banners of the outlawed Solidarity trade union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Friends Indeed | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...patriots." Declared a former soldier in Poland's Home Army: "Those Jewish nationalists made a bloodbath. Let us block the way to power of the next generation of Zionists." Handbills with the slogan KEEP SOLIDARITY POLISH named the alleged Zionists: KOR Activist Adam Michnik and Solidarity Spokesman Karol Modzelewski, both identified as Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Scapegoats | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...dependent union federation. The whole country seemed to realize that a campaign of cooperation was Poland's last, best hope of consolidating its bold experiment in socialist "renewal" and avoiding the ultimate disaster of a Soviet invasion. Summing up the increasingly conciliatory national mood, Solidarity Spokesman Karol Modzelewski told the daily Zycie Warszawy that the new government "created a genuine chance for rolling back a dangerous course of events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Back from the Brink | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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