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When Lech Walesa stepped from the portal of St. Brigid's Church in Gdansk last week, carrying a bouquet of red and white carnations, the former Solidarity leader hoped to walk peacefully to the monument of three crosses half a mile away. It was the 14th anniversary of the food riots of 1970, in which dozens of Polish workers were killed by troops and police, and Walesa and some 3,000 followers planned to lay flowers and wreaths at the memorial erected in honor of the martyrs. Linking arms with Bogdan Lis, a former Gdansk Solidarity leader, Walesa strode...
...women shouted from the safety of their flat. Among the dozen people detained by the police was Andrzej Gwiazda, once Solidarity's vice chairman and one of the most outspoken of Poland's dissidents; he was later sentenced to three months in prison. Walesa retreated to St. Brigid's, coolly explaining that "we marched as long as it seemed logical to march...
Reporter-Researcher Brigid O'Hara-Forster checked the manuscript's independently verifiable data. Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who has had a major role in preparing nearly all the recent book excerpts that have appeared in TIME, including those from the memoirs of Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter, supervised the Haig project. Says Kriss: "It is practically unprecedented for a former major member of an Administration to publish a controversial book about his experiences while that Administration is still in power. That adds an additional level of newsworthiness to the contents of the book...
Staff Writer Jim Kelly wrote the other main cover story, on the growing awareness and concern among Americans about the threat of nuclear holocaust. He was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, while Brigid O'Hara-Forster and JoAnn Lum worked with Talbott. Presiding over the entire package was National Editor John T. Elson, who was struck by the antinuclear movement's broad base. "The early opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors...
...those involved in the story agreed that joblessness is a devastating psychological experience. Staff Writer Jim Kelly wrote the cover story, with the assistance of Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite and Brigid O'Hara-Forster. Kelly, who lost a night desk clerk's job in a New Jersey hotel while he was in college, says: "It was only a part-time job and by no means the most important thing in my life, but I did wonder, 'What did I do wrong?' " Washington Correspondent Gisela Bolte remembers the struggle to land her first job in post-World...