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...Jaruzelski and his Soviet backers play a very perfidious game. First came the brutal crackdown with all its atrocities: shooting at striking workers, beating people to death, detaining thousands of people in concentration camps. The West was justly indignant. Now is the time of some "relaxation" and "normalization". The curfew will probably be shortened an hour or two, people will be free to travel within their provinces or make telephone calls within their cities; in the next few weeks maybe several hundreds of detainees will be released. What I fear most is the danger that the West can be deceived...
Including last Saturday night's 4-2 loss to the University of New Hampshire at Durham, a game which several of the top players missed because of a curfew violation on a previous trip, the Eagles ECAC record stands at 4-3 (8-4 overall). Prior to the UNH game, B.C. saw holiday action in the I Love New York Tournament at Lake Placid, bowing in the opening round to Clarkson, 4-3 in overtime and then pasting Division 2 Plattsburg St., 6-2, in the consolation game...
...disintegration of the state has been halted, and an end has been put to anarchy." The government eased its ban on travel within Poland, restored telephone service in some provinces and quietly removed the armored personnel carriers from Warsaw's Victory Square. It also reduced the length of the curfew in the capital and in some other cities, thereby permitting people to attend midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. At the holiday meal, the extra place at the dinner table that is traditionally set for an unexpected visitor had a special meaning in many homes this year: it marked the absence...
...checked. Messages about sicknesses and funerals could not be sent. "I will die now," said a woman in Warsaw matter-of-factly. She had been scheduled for brain surgery in the U.S. this week, and now could not leave. At her side, her doctor sadly agreed. Because of the curfew, nurses and doctors could keep their hospitals open 24 hours a day only by taking up residence inside. Said one doctor: "This is worse than the German occupation. At least then we had telephones...
...public gatherings, including demonstrations, strikes, sports and artistic events, are banned. Exception: religious services inside churches. A curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. is imposed...