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...Poles died trying to drive the Nazi occupiers out of their capital. But the Poles who filed through the neat, birch-lined paths of Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last week also had a message for their present rulers. Gathered at the base of a ten-foot-high monument to the Home Army, the non-Communist resistance group that organized the 1944 revolt, about 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity union sang hymns, raised their hands in V-for-victory signs and called for the liberation of Lech Walesa, the union leader who remains under detention in southeast Poland...
Suddenly a young man shinnied up the sandstone column. Just below the royal Polish eagle that crowns the monument, he placed a camouflaged box containing a tape recorder. From its speaker emerged the voice of Zbigniew Bujak, 27, one of the union's most active underground leaders. Declared Bujak: "We will continue our struggle for freedom and the independence of our motherland." It was a pointed reminder that the people had not abandoned their demands for greater freedom, despite the recent liberation of some 1,200 detainees and a vague promise from Party Boss General Wojciech Jaruzelski that martial...
...uncovering of this major Aztec monument in the very center of their capital has stirred a wave of national pride among Mexicans. During the excavation Archaeologist Matos Moctezuma appeared so often on television he became something of a national celebrity. Colleagues jokingly took to calling the regally bearded scholar Moctezuma III. The excavation itself is scheduled to be opened to tourists later this year...
...Communist officials and media ministars ("The big stars are the nicest," says Manning), he was hailed quietly by Presidents, press secretaries and correspondents. Whether in Saigon or Peking, when the frazzled White House party wearily touched foreign ground, there was Manning standing as comfortably and solidly as the Washington Monument. "Where y'all been?" he would ask Barbara Walters or Dan Rather. Manning, of course, had already tamed the natives and educated them in the ways of the American media. He was calm and shrewd and as smooth as sour mash from Tennessee, from whence he hailed. He never...
Above the city, on a high hill, stands a ten-story | statue of the Virgin holding the baby Jesus. A metal halo is riveted over the Virgin's head. One can enter the monument at the base and climb up inside it. Dan hesitates at the top because the protective wall has been shot away. This was a recent P.L.O. position. An antiaircraft gun was set up there. Below the Virgin, the Israeli army mills. "I hate war," says Dan, out of the blue...