Word: janusz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astounding admission of defeat--two days before the official results of Sunday's voting were to be released--came in a statement at the start of the evening newscast by party spokesperson Jan Bisztyga, who was shown sitting at the elbow of Solidarity national spokesperson Janusz Onyszkiewicz...
Still, the Communists are not about to yield their pre-eminent place. The most likely candidate for the post of President is General Wojciech Jaruzelski, First Secretary of the Communist party. Said government negotiator Janusz Reykowski: "Nowhere do elections contest that system. That would threaten the stability of the state...
HUNTING COCKROACHES A vibrant farce by Polish Emigre Janusz Glowacki evoking the plight of refugee intellectuals: an actress who cannot overcome her glottal-stop accent and her novelist husband who looks for his lost sense of context and insight by puzzling over the rectilinear shapes of Western states...
Playwright Janusz Glowacki, 48, understands these frustrations all too well. After his novel Give Us This Day, about the birth of Solidarity, was banned by the Polish censor in 1981, Glowacki arrived in the U.S. as a virtual unknown. Hunting Cockroaches, which opened off-Broadway last week, transmutes his struggles into vibrant farce devoid of self-pity. During an emblematic sleepless night, as nightmare figures ranging from an immigration officer to condescending liberals pop out from beneath their bed, the pragmatic couple never complain of life's unfairness. They accept having to prove themselves. They just wish it would...
...decision. At the time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated." Declared Janusz Onyszkiewicz, another former Solidarity leader: "This is simply a campaign to diminish the sympathy that the U.S. Administration enjoys in Poland...