Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 89, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 December 1981 — Page 3

Polish church warned not to lead opposition

By The Associated Press Roman Catholic priests reportedly have been beaten and arrested in Poland, and Communist Party sources say the government has threatened to move against the church if it leads opposition to military rule, according to uncensored dispatches from Poland. Church sources said Sunday that priests were attacked in the cities of Wroclaw and Gdansk, where the church has been heavily involved with the independent labor federation

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Solidarity. There were no details of the incidents. Poles fillet! the churches Sunday the only place they’re allowed to freely assemble under martial law and heard a plea for calm issued by Archbishop Jozef Glemp, Roman Catholic primate for Poland. Glemp said peace is necessary to safeguard the church’s future as well as the country’s. The mood at many churches was somber on the Sunday before Christmas as resistance

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to martial law was reported in various spots around the country. In Warsaw’s Church of the Holy Cross, the scene of massed police assaults on demonstrators Thursday, the priest exorted the faithful to pray for “our murdered brothers” a possible reference to seven miners the government says were shot by police at a coal mine near Katowice last week. However, a Swedish radio report quoting “very reliable sources” set the figure at 200

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dead since martial law was declared Dec. 13. In another Warsaw church, there was a slight but telling difference in the service. In a wellknown Polish church anthem, the priest and parishoners used to intone the words: “0 Lord, please bless our free fatherland." But on Sunday, the words were changed to those traditionally sung at times of foreign domination: “0 Lord, please return us our free fatherland.” Two papal envoys arrived in

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Warsaw on Sunday in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the tense situation. Meanwhile, Romauld Spasowski, 61, Poland’s ambassador to the United States, was granted political asylum in Washington on Sunday and told reporters, “The road to peace is the only road. The Catholic church in Poland represents a great moral force, the soul of the Polish nation.” He called for talks between the church, Solidarity and “the authorities” to end the crisis.

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Spasowski’s defection was reported on Radio Warsaw. Polish officials said he had been suffering bouts of depression and had been called home. They did not report his remarks accusing the government of “brutality and inhumanity.” He said his action was an “expression of solidarity” with Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s now-banned Solidarity movement. Walesa, who so far has refused to cooperate with the authorities, has reportedly been

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moved from a villa south of Warsaw, apparently because his whereabouts had become too well-known. Solidarity sources said they believed he had been moved to general staff headquarters in the capital. In the latest reports from Poland, Church sources said that they have been able to verify the names of 1,100 people who were being held, but they estimated that the total number being detained may be as high as 40,000. Solidarity sources said that

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the government has claimed as many as 2,600 were under arrest. They said they assumed that represented the number that face long-term jail sentences. Some people arrested in the first days of martial law have already been released. Many of the detainees are being held in large camps in the Mazurian Lake district in northeast Poland near the Soviet border. Other detention centers include an enclosded arena built for Nazi rallies in the 1930 s the dispatches said.

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