Word: jablonsky
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...first snow of winter fell on Warsaw last week, the honor guard stepped smartly up to Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A crowd of 2,000, including a row of officials, watched in respectful silence as President Henryk Jablonski solemnly placed a wreath at the base of the granite monument. In hundreds of towns and cities throughout the Western world, Armistice Day is observed in much the same fashion. But the Polish ceremony marked a significant break with the Communist past, a symbol of rising patriotism that was finally acknowledged by the government, despite the possibility...
...grief was perhaps greatest in Poland. John Paul has been an inspirational force to his overwhelmingly Catholic fellow countrymen, who are struggling to liberalize their nation's Communist system without plunging it into anarchy. Acutely aware of the Pope's influence, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, President Henryk Jablonski and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski joined in a telegram wishing him a speedy recovery "so indispensable to fulfilling your mission in the service of the humanistic ideals of peace and the welfare...
Shortly before 5 o'clock, the dignitaries were introduced. Poland's President Henryk Jablonski, a silver-haired figure in a black overcoat: a smattering of applause. Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow wearing crimson biretta and robes: hearty applause. Then Union Leader Lech Walesa, the improbable hero of last summer's strikes, bundled in his customary duffel coat: tumultuous applause. After a minute of silence, the city's church bells began to peal, and ship sirens wailed from the port, a keening cry that sent shivers through the crowd. The names of those who died at Gdansk...
...party of officials who were corrupt, incompetent or tainted by past associations with the Gierek regime. Only four of the 14 voting members of the Politburo last August are still on the ruling council: Kania; Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, 57; Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, 56; and President Jablonski, 70. All but Jablonski have at least a passing association with odnowa (renewal) and Jablonski has something better -a farewell embrace from Pope John Paul II at the Cracow airport last year...
Leaving the Capitol, Reagan posed on the Northeast Steps with the 1981 March of Dimes poster child, Missy Jablonski of St. Louis, sweeping the six-year-old up into his arms to the delight of a mob of professional and amateur photographers who filled the stairwell. Then he rode to the nearby glass-and-concrete headquarters of the Teamsters Union, the nation's largest and one of the rare labor organizations to back his candidacy...