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...until the Western governments understand their mistake? When will they understand that their indifference to the Polish tragedy gives the Soviet totalitarianism full liberty to commit the next crimes? When will they realize that after Budapest, Prague, Kabul and Warsaw, sooner or later the tanks will roll into West Berlin...
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic summon the otherworldliness of Mahler's last completed symphony...
...films and other uplifting programming, such as an interview with a bemedaled old general who said he had known Jaruzelski since the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II. (The man was mistaken; Jaruzelski fought in the Soviet army as it marched through Poland and on to Berlin. See box.) He sang the leader's praises and assured viewers that Jaruzelski was an honest soldier who did not have it in his nature to be a dictator...
...Walesa and his family, an interview that never took place. After scouring Gdansk for details of the mass arrests and strikes, Wierzynski drove to Warsaw, into a setting of total censorship. It was five days after the military takeover that Wierzynski was able to make his way to West Berlin, from where he sent his reports. Among them was this personal look at Poland under siege...
...Gdansk just before martial law was imposed, then made his way back to Warsaw, taking pictures of troop movements through the window of his car. Leaving all his equipment behind, Bureau stuffed 30 rolls of film in his snow boots and rode an unheated train in subzero weather to Berlin with L'Express Correspondent Jacques Renard. Said Bureau: "The East Germans searched everything. They looked under seats with flashlights and brought in ladders to go over the overhead compartments. Then they checked us one by one." The Solidarity leaflets Renard was carrying were confiscated, but he and Bureau were...