Speaking on tape, a banned Solidarity leader urges resistance
Officially, the ceremony marked the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw uprising, in which 245,000 Poles died trying to drive the Nazi occupiers out of their capital. But the Poles who filed through the neat, birch-lined paths of Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last week also had a message for their present rulers. Gathered at the base of a ten-foot-high monument to the Home Army, the non-Communist resistance group that organized the 1944 revolt, about 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity union sang hymns, raised their hands in V-for-victory signs and called for the liberation...
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