Word: miroslaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October 24, 1985, Miroslaw Medved jumped into the Mississippi River from a Soviet freighter and swam frantically, seeking asylum. For screw up number one, enter the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS, at its bureaucratic best, returned Medved, who was kicking and screaming, to his ship, clearly against his will...
Sixty senators have asked to have the Miroslaw Medved defection case reopened. While they're at it, why not reinstate Lieutenant Geltz. And give him a medal...
...been common knowledge to many Poles for months. Then last week, the Polish Communist Party made it official: General Miroslaw Milewski, 57, the man who was in charge of the security police at the time of the slaying of Father Jerzy Popieluszko last fall, had been forced to resign from both the ruling Politburo and the Central Committee. Milewski is the highest-ranking official to fall from power as a result of the pro-Solidarity priest's murder. Earlier this year, three secret-police officers were found guilty of the killing, and a fourth was convicted of instigating...
Like most Poles, he believes that the only thing martial law accomplished was to crush Solidarity. In his village it was hard to see any evidence of a "state of war," Jaruzelski's term for martial law. Says Miroslaw: "Here you do not really sense martial law. We did not have tanks or soldiers warming themselves by roadside fires. And a curfew in a village is ridiculous. Who could enforce...
...Miroslaw has not seen much change among his countrymen either. "Deep down in people's hearts the ideals of Solidarity remain," he says. "They cannot be suppressed for too long, and when the occasion comes they will rise up again...