Word: passport
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This week, Stanislaw Baranczak finally got the news he--and Harvard--had been waiting for. The Polish government, after denying seven previous requests for a passport since 1978, gave the dissident poet permission to travel to the United States and take a three-year associate professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...found what has become the country's most prominent dissident organization. He has participated in illegal "flying" universities and edited an underground literary magazine. For his troubles, he lost his teaching post at Adam Micklewicz University and was blacklisted from official publications. And when he asked for a passport, the answer was no--despite protests from President Bok and the State Department...
Baranczak, a 33-year-old poet, essayist and literary critic from Poznan, Poland, was granted a passport by the Polish government this week after seven refusals. A founding member in 1976 of the Committee for Social Self-Defense, Poland's most prominent dissident group. Baranczak first applied for the passport in March, 1978, when he accepted a three-year associate professorship in Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...Washington, neither U.S. nor Polish officials could confirm that Baranczak had received his passport, but both took optimistic tones...
...government's decision to grant Baranczak a passport should bring to an end more than three years of protracted, complex and often frustrating efforts to secure his arrival here...