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...Warsaw doctor and complained of a pain in his head. He had good reason to complain: there was a bullet in his skull. After the slug was removed, police came to Lopuszynskrs bedside and patiently reconstructed his movements of the few previous days. Lopuszynski remembered driving near Cracow with a friend named Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz after a night of heavy drinking. A loud explosion had suddenly awakened him from a snooze. "It's nothing," his companion had said. "I just wanted to scare you with a firecracker...
...lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor of international law at Cracow University and the top legal adviser to the delegation, made his way out from behind the Iron Curtain...
Marek Korowicz, a bachelor with no close relatives in Poland, had spent the last seven years quietly teaching his law classes at Cracow. Although he never joined the Communist Party, he kept his opposition to himself and did not give the regime any trouble. Early this month, he was unexpectedly summoned to the Foreign Ministry, told that he would go to New York as legal adviser and first alternate to the delegation. He decided then to escape, but he waited until he had been formally seated as a member of the delegation before making his break...
...young (33) terrorist visited Cracow, where Lenin, in exile, trying to build up a group of hard-core professional revolutionaries inside Russia, was delighted with him, wrote to Maxim Gorky about his "wonderful Georgian." In Vienna he met Trotsky, who paused to note "the glint of animosity" in "Stalin's yellow eyes." Stalin wrote in Pravda (which he had helped to found): "Trotsky's childish plan for the merging of the unmergeable [Bolsheviks and Mensheviks] has proved him ... a common, noisy champion with faked muscles." In St. Petersburg in 1913, police got wind of Stalin's presence...
...build-up for the move, the Communists in December arrested Cracow's administrator, Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak, and three weeks ago, in the same city, a military court sentenced one priest and two laymen to death after a trumped-up trial. The charge: spying...