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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...
...been common knowledge to many Poles for months. Then last week, the Polish Communist Party made it official: General Miroslaw Milewski, 57, the man who was in charge of the security police at the time of the slaying of Father Jerzy Popieluszko last fall, had been forced to resign from both the ruling Politburo and the Central Committee. Milewski is the highest-ranking official to fall from power as a result of the pro-Solidarity priest's murder. Earlier this year, three secret-police officers were found guilty of the killing, and a fourth was convicted of instigating...
...Warsaw 7,000 Solidarity supporters gathered outside the church of St. Stanislaw Kostka, where Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest murdered last year by security police, once preached and now lies buried. This time there was no violence. They marched for almost two hours until riot police blocked their progress. On Friday the Polish government expelled two American diplomats, William Harwood, a first secretary of the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, and David Hopper, the consul in Cracow. The diplomats, accused of participating in a protest outside Cracow, insisted they were merely observers. In retaliation, Washington expelled four Polish diplomats...
Urban drew special attention to Warsaw's Father Stanislaw Malkowski, 40, who is well known for his antigovernment blasts. Malkowski was described by one of the Toruan defendants as the initial target of the Popieluszko operation. Since then, Malkowski's outbursts have become even more virulent. "Today's empire of evil," he said recently, "is the country of the red dragon, the Communist state...
...Government Spokesman Urban said that General Zenon Platek, the immediate superior of the four men convicted at Toruan, would remain suspended from duty and that his department would be broken up. Urban announced the suspension of Warsaw Police Colonel Leszek Wolski, who had allegedly known in advance of the Popieluszko plot...