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Polish officials complain that their economic woes have been made worse by Western trade restrictions imposed after martial law was declared. Last October Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa and nine other prominent Polish opposition figures and moderate intellectuals issued an appeal to the U.S., urging President Reagan to "play a significant...
Betty Fussell's I Hear America Cooking (Viking; $24.95), for example, carries the sonorous subtitle "A Journey of Discovery from Alaska to Florida -- the Cooks, the Recipes, and the Unique Flavors of Our National Cuisine." The problem is, her self-imposed "time frame" forces her to bypass the major immigrant...
The appeal could have been penned by the Warsaw government. It stated that the "most urgent task facing Poles today" is to improve the economy. Then it called upon President Reagan to lift the economic sanctions against Poland that have been in place since 1981, when the U.S. slapped on...
THEY WANTED to tell me about atrocities. They wanted to tell me about repression, of Jews, Christians, Estonians, Poles, Lithuanians. But mostly Jews.
Most of France's exiles, of course, are not political figures at all, let alone terrorists, but merely victims of oppression. That long line includes Poles, Hungarians, Armenians, White Russians and Spanish republicans. In the late 1970s Frenchmen of every political persuasion welcomed the Vietnamese boat people, and today the...