Word: baranczak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, neither U.S. nor Polish officials could confirm that Baranczak had received his passport, but both took optimistic tones...
Harvard officials speculated that the Polish authorities' apparent change of attitude may have come out of liberalizing efforts of labor and intellectual unrest in Poland, although Fanger noted that Baranczak, because of his extensive dissident activity, "was one of the hardest pills for [the government] to swallow...
...government's decision to grant Baranczak a passport should bring to an end more than three years of protracted, complex and often frustrating efforts to secure his arrival here...
President Bok--who could not be reached for comment--sent several protests in 1978 and 1979 to the Polish Embassy in Washington, which responded last summer with a letter suggesting six Polish scholars other than Baranczak for Harvard to invite...
Daniel A. Steiner '54, general counsel to the University who has been handling the matter for Bok, said he would have no comment "unless and until" Baranczak arrives. Dean Rosovsky, who said that he had last year written former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie regarding Baranczak, said he voted be "very delighted" if Baranczak can come here...