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Just before Solidarity's meeting, Union Chairman Lech Walesa said in an interview with the Cracow party daily that he was fed up with radicals trying to politicize the organization. Said he: "The truth is that when the tanks move in I will meet them first. They [the radicals] will escape, but I will not. What are they up to?" At the conference, Walesa took no part in the debates over the controversial resolutions. Sitting quietly in his front-row seat, chain-smoking cigarettes, the former electrician said it was "my turn to listen." But he finally spoke...
...Conrad, who rarely dealt with women or love in his books, did manage to have a great and unfulfilled passion for at least one woman, Janina Taube, the first love of his Cracow schooldays. "To the end of his life," writes Tennant, "Conrad would record no other occasion on which his heart leaped or his breath was taken away, and indeed it may be that in a sense this was his deepest sexual experience." Conrad was cooler and more practical in his feelings toward Jessie George, the Englishwoman he married in 1896 and used as a servant for most...
...Jozef Glemp declared that John Paul will "almost certainly" be traveling next year. As it happens, next year Poland will be marking the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the nation's most venerated religious symbol, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, clearly a celebration the former Cardinal from Cracow would move heaven and earth not to miss...
...decree was one too many for the Poles, who must line up as long as 14 hours for basic foodstuffs. Moreover, between 30% and 50% of those standing in the queues go away empty-handed because of shortages of virtually everything. Even in the relatively well-supplied city of Cracow, window displays in grocery stores consist almost entirely of pyramids of packages...
...opening day: "It's hard to be enthusiastic. Society's expectations have been disappointed so many times before." Yet the delegates approached their task with a sense of mission and hope rarely seen in the Eastern bloc these days. Explained Delegate Jozef Gajewicz, the mayor of Cracow: "A great explosion of democracy brought the delegates here. They have come to fight for what they believe...