The World - News from Oct. 20, 1985
About 20,000 Poles attended a Solidarity-organized church service that marked the first anniversary of the slaying of an activist priest by secret police agents--a murder that shocked Poland and damaged church-state relations. “Our memory about the Rev. (Jerzy) Popieluszko is a confirmation that Solidarity is alive,” said the text of a speech read for Lech Walesa, founder of the trade union movement. Popieluszko, who was 37, had challenged the government’s right to outlaw Solidarity in 1982 and had called for its revival.
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