NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1985
Page 12
Suspect defends murder of priest
By United Press International
TORUN, Poland — A secret police captain said yesterday he killed a pro-Solidarity priest because the state's failure to silence the cleric left him feeling like "a soldier without weapons."
Police Capt. Grzegorz Plotrowski, 33, accused with three other secret police officers in the Oct. 19 kidnapping and murder of Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, testified he carried out the attack because the state's legal system did not dissident clerics from anti-state activities.
Piotrowski stood defiantly and made his final statement in the small crowded courtroom in Toru where the trial began Dec. 27.
"I saw loopholes in the legal system that allowed certain bishops and priests to continue activities aimed at confrontation," said Piotroski, whose accomplices testified he directed the priest's murder.
"I felt like a soldier without weapons on a political battlefield."
PROSECUTORS HAVE recommended Piotrowski be sentenced to death for his part in the killing of the priest, whose anti-state sermons threaten the communist government. A final verdict will be announced Thursday.
"My work acted like a drug on me," Piotrowski said. "My actions were insane and a terrible mistake. My death was not part of our plans."
tions by prosecutors that he had links with the West and may have acted as a double agent in killing the priest.
Piotrowski also rejected sugges-
Pitrowiski's subordinates, Lsls. Waldemar Chmieliewski and Leszek Pekala, in describing their part in killing Popeliuszko and dumping his body in the Vistula River near Torun, where it was found Oct. 30.
"I want to express my feelings of guilt for the magnitude of the wrong I did. It will never be possible to repair the damage." Pekala said.
Prosecutors have recommended the two lieutenants serve 25-year jail terms. The fourth defendant, police Col. Adam Pritseuka, pleaded in to charges of inciting the murder and faces a 25-year jail term.
Libya releases 4 British hostages
By United Press International
LONDON — Libya freed four Britons yesterday that had been hustled in Tripoli since the two nations severed diplomatic ties 10 months ago after the slaying of a British ambassador by the Libyan Embassy in London.
Robin  Plummer, 32; Malcolm Anderson, 27; Alan Russell, 48; and Michael Bardner, 52; were re-elected in 1996 to Tripoli where Libyan officials served
them cake and orange juice in celebration.
"It's an experience I'd like to forget," Russell said during a live British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast of the release.
Russell and Anderson were tried on various espionage charges. The other two were never charged with a crime.
They were released after months of mediation and four trips to Libya by Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury. The four were scheduled to
leave Tripoli Thursday with the archbishop's envoy.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, answering questions in the House of Commons, called the move a "welcome development."
"ILOOK TO the Libyan authorities to complete the normal formalities and ensure the early return of the men with Mr. Wate to their families." Thatchner said, adding she was "deeply grateful" to Runcie for his in securing the men's release.
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Rebels tackle Ethiopian hunger
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UMRAKOBA, Sudan — Ethiopia's Marxist government has stopped sending food to starving people in two war-torn northern provinces, but rebels have mounted attacks. The United Nations official said yesterday.
Ethiopia has told the United Nations it can no longer guarantee distribution of emergency food in Tigre and Eritrea provinces
"It it seems that the people of "Tigre and Eritrea are not simply receiving any help at all from the Ethiopian government and they are starving," said Joel Boultron, spokesman for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees. "That is pretty serious when you consider how much aid the world is sending to that country right now."
BOTROULE SAID convoys of food trucks were regularly sent into Ethiopia from Sudan by the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front, which has been fighting for more than 20 years, and the Tigray Liberation Front, which is also seeking regional autonomy.
"They know the Ethiopian government cannot take care of their people and they send the trucks in at night," he said.
Spokesmen for both organizations said people fleeing Ethiopia were fed at a network of camouflaged guerrilla food stations throughout the two provinces.
The government is moving people by the hundreds in Soviet-operated transport planes to more fertile areas in the west and southwest, but Tigre rebel spokesman Fiseha Afwerki said "they are terrified of resettlement."
FOR THE PAST six weeks, an estimated 3,000 impoverished Ethiopians have crossed into eastern Sudan daily, bringing with them a host of famine-related diseases and horror stories, according to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.
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