Pro-Solidarity Priest Found Slain
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WARSAW — About 1,000 people attended Mass on Sunday for a pro-Solidarity Roman Catholic priest who was found slain in his apartment Saturday. The circumstances remained unclear.
Stanislaw Niedzielak, 74, a former World War II military chaplain and vocal supporter of the campaign to re-legalize the banned trade union, was found in a pool of blood Saturday morning.
The slaying was viewed by some critics of the government as a provocation against Solidarity, but the official news agency said there were indications that the priest might have been a victim of robbery and murder.
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