Word: baranczak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...developments include the reinstating of Stanislaw Baranczak to the university from which he was fired in 1978, ostensibly for his dissident activities, and the decision by the controlled state press to publish his latest book, a Harvard professor who met with Baranczak this month said yesterday...
...People now think (Baranczak) will be able to leave, possibly in time for the spring semester," he said, adding, "I am rather optimistic that in two to three months, we will...
Donald E. Fanger, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, which offered Baranczak the position, cautioned that there was "no news" on whether the poet would be allowed to leave Poland. Rucjan Nieczkowski, a spokesman for the Polish Embassy in Washington, said he knew of no change in the situation...
...William E. Schaufele Jr., who served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland from 1978 until last month and was actively involved in talks regarding Baranczak, called the decision to allow Baranczak to return to the University of Poznan--apparently at students' requests--"encouraging" and "a good sign...
...very often that the government has done that sort of thing," Schaufele said from New York yesterday. He acknowledged that a deal that would have allowed Baranczak's departure more than a year ago fell through at the last minute, but he declined to give details...