Poland announced travel restrictions on American diplomats in retaliation for similar controls on
Jacek Kuron, a leading Polish dissident, said recently that sanctions imposed on Poland by the
Poland announced today that captured underground Solidarity leader Zbigniew Bujak will be charged
Adam Michnik, one of Poland's leading dissident intellectuals, was released from prison Monday under a government amnesty, an opposition activist in Warsaw said.
Polish authorities ordered a seven-man Solidarity council led by the labor union's founder, Lech Walesa, to disband today, saying its operation is illegal and disruptive to peace.
His first papal trip home to Poland in 1979 was a triumph that aroused an oppressed nation and
sanctions against Poland on Thursday but warned the Warsaw government not to retreat on political reforms.
About 15 members of an outlawed Polish peace and ecology movement were released from police custody hours after they were detained, a member of the group said Wednesday.
Poland will soon make "quite revolutionary changes" in its economy, including replacing all top
The United States and Poland agreed today to resume commercial flights this month for the first
The Polish government has outlined plans to raise the prices of most basic food items 12% to 13% but with greater increases for meat products, including as much as 80% for lard.
Polish authorities have formally refused to reopen an investigation into a series of political kidnapings last year in the same area where Father Jerzy Popieluszko was abducted and murdered, according to a leading underground publication.
Poland said today that it briefly detained four American students last week on charges of
The government today revealed an alleged plot to assassinate Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, and a key official suspected of plotting the murder of a pro-Solidarity priest was removed from the ruling Politburo.
Poland retaliated today for the United States' expulsion of four Polish diplomats by suspending air courier service for the U.S.
The U.S. government apologized to Poland on Wednesday for a broadcast by Radio Free Europe that, in
The government has discreetly erected a 12-foot marble cross in memory of 4,000 army officers who died in a World War II massacre officially blamed on the Nazis but blamed by many Poles on Soviet troops, dissident sources said today.
The Polish government Sunday claimed to have won a broad popular mandate in its first parliamentary elections in five years, although many people, including the majority of the influential Roman Catholic clergy, apparently refused to vote.
Late on the night of Saturday, April 26, as Soviet authorities struggled to control a crippled nuclear reactor in the Ukraine, Polish officials 400 miles to the west were making discreet inquiries in at least one central Warsaw hospital about available stocks of iodine.
Poland's Communist authorities, acting under a new law curbing academic freedom, have begun a nationwide purge of university administrators whose political views are deemed unacceptable.