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...subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw police for three hours. Meanwhile, an ugly new outburst of anti-Semitic rhetoric was added to the apparent campaign to discredit the independent labor movement (see box). Faced with this array of potential flash points, Walesa and Jaruzelski agreed to resume their high-level dialogue possibly as soon as this week. As Walesa put it, "Let's talk before any fires spread...
Perhaps not. But if the game could be saved at all, union and government leaders would have to work fast to resolve their remaining conflicts. The most immediate potential flash point was Radom, a grimy industrial city 60 miles south of Warsaw. On Thursday, members of the local Solidarity chapter unanimously voted to launch a two-hour work stoppage this week-and a province-wide genera strike on March 23-unless the government begins talks on a set of 19 demands. Foremost among them: the sacking of the provincial governor and other officials responsible for the brutal suppression...
Zalmie is wounded while performing in a USO show during World War One and returns home, maturing into a sort of Vito Corleone. America becomes the battleground, and Al Capone-style gang killings flash left and right, suspended in a vacuum, as "Sweet Georgia Brown" trumpets on the soundtrack. After Zalmie's wife is gunned down, he goes to his son Benny who is playing jazz with blacks, and pleads, "If you won't live my dream, at least live my life"--a characteristically melodramatic clinker that calls embarassing attention to itself...
...hours before they were to take the ice, Santee reflected on their mutual past: "We've known each other from the first competition I ever skated in. We always considered one another to be like brothers." Santee has been the prodigy, a flash who entered senior competitions at 14, only to have his spirit broken by repeated defeats by older skaters. Santee helped revive his confidence by imagining himself as Sylvester Stallone preparing for the big bout in Rocky. He even made the film's sound track his skating music. Now he prepared for one last fight...
After the bomb test at the Trinity site in Almagordo, nothing or no one was the same: it wasn't just the response of one woman who, miles away, couldn't understand why her blind sister could see the brilliant flash: more importantly, it was the reaction of scientists like Oppenheimer, who realized that they had seen the most powerful force in the universe demonstrated before their unbelieving eyes. As Robert Serber, a scientist who worked on the project, said. "It was some kind of beauty." But as the lesson of Hiroshima--where, as brother Frank Oppenheimer recalled with obvious...