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...last year as the revolt against communism gathered steam. He acknowledged Solidarity's election victory in June, and then won, with just a single ballot to spare, a parliamentary vote for a six-year presidential term. "As President, Jaruzelski has done practically everything that was expected of him," says Pawel Ziolek, a spokesman of the Forum of a Democratic Right, a coalition group. "Which means he did nothing to disturb the process of dismantling the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland The Man Who Did His Duty | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...twelve-year-old from Milton, held a handmade sign that read I LOVE YOU, JOHN PAUL II. Why did she and her family pick this spot? "Because he'll have to slow down to turn the corner." One sign stood out even more than the big WITAM, JAN PAWEL II placard above LaSalle's bar. VIVA EL PAPA it read. And in small letters below LOS CUBANOS. "I am from Miami Beach," the old woman said who held it. "I am Cuban." She was Noemi Sarmenteros, 75 years old, and she lived with her son in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: Uphams Corner: A Brief Encounter | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...These magazines are kept mostly for their literary value--after all, that is their primary lasting value, while their naughty pictures are of secondary value," Pawel J. Depta, a reference librarian at Widener, said yesterday. Depta said Widener has no other periodicals that could be considered pornographic...

Author: By Bennett D. Cohen, | Title: Donations Provide Widener Library Full Set of Playboys | 7/9/1974 | See Source »

After a tour of duty in Washington in what seemed an innocuous job, Poland's Colonel Pawel Monat returned to Warsaw in May of last year. In the half-world of intrigue, he was a man to reckon with. His next official job was to coordinate the work of all military attaches in Polish embassies throughout the world, which, in a Communist country, meant that Monat had access to political as well as military intelligence and espionage, and presumably knew all there was to be known. Hard-working and trusted, Monat apparently had no trouble last summer getting permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Valuable Catch | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Total Security. The mock-hero of Author Ernst Pawel's From the Dark Tower unintentionally reminds the reader that Jonahs as well as Ahabs go looking for their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Org Man Blues | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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