The World - News from Aug. 1, 1988

Police in Warsaw, wielding truncheons, broke up an anti-Soviet demonstration by about 200 people attempting a march to commemorate the more than 200,000 Poles killed in the 1944 Warsaw uprising against German occupation troops. At least three people were arrested. The demonstrators questioned why nearby Soviet army troops had failed to come to the rescue of Poles when the Germans razed Warsaw in retaliation for the uprising. Supporters of the Confederation for an Independent Poland, an illegal political party, attempted to march to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier carrying posters that said: “We’ll never bow in front of Moscow.” The group’s leader, Leszek Moczulski, was among those detained.