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...satellite intelligence services based in Washington, and they often divide up intelligence tasks." Czechoslovakia, formerly a favored channel for disinformation, seems to have taken on the job of watching East bloc émigrés. East Germany is said to excel in electronic surveillance and detection equipment. Before martial law was imposed, Poland offered the best approach to influencing opinion in the West. In the U.S. alone, Poland reportedly can call on agents among some 200 trade representatives. Rumania has the crudest and largest secret police; some experts estimate that as many as one-third of all adults have served...
...with long, lustrous dark hair, Foster claims to be three-quarters Cherokee (she also says she is 27; Maryland lists her as 38). The walls of her cell are decorated with bold, dark drawings of Indian faces. Books on Indian lore are piled together with other texts on Buddhism, martial arts and the occult. She is allowed half an hour out of her cell each morning for a shower and an hour of exercise later in the day, but she has felt increasingly estranged from other inmates and no longer takes a recreation period. She receives no visitors because...
Financial tremors seem to be Malkin's lot. While in London in 1967, he covered the devaluation of the British pound. In 1981 he spent his Christmas holiday reporting the implications of martial law on Poland's unpayable debt. In deed, as a journalist moving around the world for two decades, he has been forced to maintain bank accounts in half a dozen countries and to watch helplessly as currencies fluctuated...
Although the government continually proclaims that the country has produced 30 million tons more coal under martial law than during the period that Solidarity existed, Eugeniusz's family has yet to receive any for this winter. With temperatures already dropping below freezing, the only warmth in the high-ceilinged apartment comes from a small electric heater. Neither Eugeniusz nor Grazyna have much hope that the situation will improve. "Things might be better when our son is our age," says Grazyna...
Moonlighting. Four Polish laborers spend an edgy month in London-December 1981, when Poland fell under martial law. Writer-Director Jerzy Sko-limowski has devised a bitterly funny metaphor for the dilemma of the liberal tyrant. As the foreman, isolated from his workers and his own best instincts, Jeremy Irons is quietly spectacular...