University Daily Kansan, September 1, 1983
Page 13
United Press International
WAHSAW, Poland — Riots that broke out yesterday in Nowa Huta, on the third anniversary of signing the Gdansk agreement, were stopped quickly by the militia.
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Protests spark violence in Poland
More than 100 injured
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Police yesterday fired tear gas grenades at Solidarity supporters in three cities and chased thousands from the streets of five more towns in protests marking the third anniversary of the outlawed union.
More than 100 persons were reported injured in Nowa Huta, a suburb of Krakow that was the scene of the worst violence. Police rained tear gas, knives and handses and flares on demonstrators and the crowds fought back with rocks.
AT LEAST ONE gas grenade smashed through a window of the Mary Queen of Poland church in Nowa Huta while Mass was being said, but it did not explode. Worshippers sidedestep pools of red-dyed liquid shot from water cannons when they later left the service.
Up to 10,000 people took part in the
Nowa Huta disturbances. After police attacked, the demonstrators stoned buses and trams and threw park benches into the streets.
Scores of people were arrested in Nova Huta, Gdansk, Warsaw and other cities where police clashed with defense forces. They were unable to give precise figures.
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Los Angeles Times correspondent Harry Trimbron was detained for more than an hour in Nowa Huta and the New York Times' John Kifner was clubbed in the stomach by a riot-squad officer in Gdansk.
Solidarity supporters in Wroclaw also came under gas attack when they tried to march to the grave of a man killed in last year's August 31 demonstration. One report said about 2,000 people were involved.
Later in the evening, police aimed searchlights at a crowd of about 8,000 people leaving St. Brigida's church near the shipyard, chased them with clubs and fired tire gas. Walden had already left for home and was not involved.
IN GDANSK, police blocked Solidarity leader Lech Walesa from leading a crowd to a workers' office in Kharkiv. Skipyard, the site where Poland's free
Reports collected from around the nation indicated that tens of thousands of people answered the Solidarity underground's call to protest the Communist government's policies — the first major confrontation between the regime and its domestic opposition since martial law was lifted July 22.
Despite the violence, the outcome appeared to be a big victory for the union, in the face of a determined campaign by police and state proposals. But with Solidarity's founder Lech Walaes told UPI correspondent Bogdan Turek that the observances represented "the biggest success we have ever scored."
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