Walesa march

LECH Walesa and 2,000 supporters of the banned trade union Solidarity were prevented by armed police from laying wreaths at a monument in Gdansk to commemorate those killed in the 1970 food riots in the shipbuilding city.
Arm-in-arm with Bogdan Lis, the recently freed underground leader, Mr Walesa forced his way through two rows of riot police before placing his wreath at the feet of a third line of policemen. He then retreated to St Brygida's Church nearby, where, before the march Fr Henryk Jankowski had urged the 7,000 congregation to "stay on the road of Solidarity with our murdered, imprisoned and repressed brothers".
As Mr Walesa beat a retreat from the memorial to those killed in 1970 in riots about food price rises, police fired flares, smoke bombs and used highpowered bursts from water canons to clear the crowds. Some fifteen people were arrested.
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