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Operation "Collect," person-to person call to Derek Bak, will...
Censorship in Poland is "arbitrary," he said, citing occasions when the Polish government had allowed to be published material that probably helped bring about the recent political upheavals there. The government allows some work to be published unofficially "to maintain its facade of independence," Jolanta Bak, a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature who did undergraduate work in Warsaw, said. Bak was a member of Baranczak's Committee for Social Self-Defense...
...modern Polish literature addresses contemporary problems instead of romantic or abstract concepts," Bak said. They were part of the revolutionary movements in the country and influenced the lawmakers, she added...
...attempted secession of Katanga, homeland of more than 1.5 million Lunda tribesmen, who also live in northwestern Zambia and eastern Angola. The rebellion was led by Mo'ise Tshombe, whose followers were seeking to preserve their mineral wealth from their enemies, the government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and the Bak-ongo tribes of the lower Congo. In those days the secessionists were thought to be rightists in the hire of the Belgian and French mineowners. Although their successors in the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.N.L.C.), who just attacked Kolwezi, talk vaguely of installing a radical regime in Kinshasa, they...
Faught, of course, supplied the day's spectacular play with a behind-the-bak shot from the right of the crease...