The World - News from June 5, 1985

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, summoned to testify at the trial of three associates, did not appear, saying he was ill. His wife, Danuta, presented a doctor’s certificate to the Gdansk court saying he has a stomach ailment. The three, Adam Michnik, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Bogdan Lis, are charged with inciting public unrest. Dissident historian Michnik was ordered taken from the courtroom for a second day after he asked that the three-judge panel be removed.