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...Wanda Jaworski cannot imagine life without the IBM PC in her Hartford office. The Travelers Corp. underwriter now gets done in one day what used to take half a week, thanks to a new office information system that lets her gather research, analyze figures, exchange mail and edit drafts without leaving her keyboard...
...make any political evaluations [now] would be irresponsible. The only perspective I have had is that of prison." Moreover, the sometimes bloody experience of martial law has taught dissidents the futility of opposing head-on a regime backed by tanks and guns. "We have learned our lesson," said Seweryn Jaworski, once the vice chairman of Solidarity's Warsaw-based Mazowsze chapter. "We will no longer play into their hands. We know we cannot beat them by gathering in the streets...
...Walesa's warning did not herald a return to the mass strikes and street demonstrations of the old era. Underlying the oppositon's mood is an awareness that enduring reforms can be won only through a long, gradual process. Looking back on Solidarity's tumultuous beginning, Jaworski recalls sadly that "we tried to influence the authorities in too short a period of time. It was a mistake. There was too much euphoria too early in the days of Solidarity." Now, he feels, former union supporters show a greater willingness to work from within the system. Ultimately, they...
...Haig had requested FBI wiretaps on a number of reporters and Government officials in 1969-71 to determine the source of embarrassing leaks to the press. Later, as Richard Nixon's chief of staff when the Watergate scandal was approaching its climax, Haig resisted efforts by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to obtain Oval Office tapes that ultimately discredited Nixon. Critics also faulted Haig for having helped Nixon and Kissinger conduct the war in Viet Nam, including the 1970 incursion into Cambodia. Yet another cloud over his nomination was the persistent though contested allegation that the Nixon Administration ordered...
DIED. Leon Jaworski, 77, courteous, square-jawed Texas lawyer who gained national fame and a place in constitutional history when, as Watergate special prosecutor, he convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that even the President was bound to submit to a subpoena for White House tapes, the eventual release of which led to Richard Nixon's resignation; of an apparent heart attack; near Wimberley, Texas. The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, Jaworski built a large and flourishing practice in booming Houston between assignments for the Government, which ranged from serving as a prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials...