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...MUSIC 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION (Blue Note). JAZZ MASTERPIECES (Columbia). A digital swingfest! Two of the foremost chroniclers of American jazz have opened their vaults to bring some of the most outstanding performances of the past six decades to a new generation of listeners -- as well as to older fans who never heard the originals sound so good. Blue Note's five-volume anthology samples the works of such greats as Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. Columbia's offering, the latest...
...been a bittersweet month for Poland. Behind the elation over unprecedented political reforms and civil liberties lies a sour reminiscence. This month, Poland observes the 50th anniversary of its rape at the hands of the Germans and Soviets. In September 1939, these two countries ruthlessly violated Polish sovereignty and carved up the ancient state between them...
...protesters linked hands to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, which included secret protocols that cleared the way for the annexation of the Baltics by the U.S.S.R. during World War II. In a sharply worded declaration, a coalition of popular-front leaders denounced the Soviet occupation and demanded the right to "restore independent statehood." The day before, a special commission of the Lithuanian parliament had declared that the U.S.S.R.'s annexation of the republic in 1940 was invalid, flatly contradicting Moscow's denial that the protocols had any bearing on absorption...
...move that was interpreted as a victory for reformers. In East Germany the government sought to rid itself of malcontents by handing out unprecedented numbers of exit permits, while thousands of other unhappy citizens simply fled over the Hungarian border. In Poland the Communist Party Politburo marked the 50th anniversary of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact -- whose secret protocols resulted in the partition of Poland at the onset of World War II -- by denouncing the agreement as a violation of "sanctified moral norms of international coexistence." Lest anyone miss the point, Polish opposition leader Lech Walesa spelled...
...50th-anniversary special on World War II concludes this week with a look at the nightmare years that led up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor...