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Meanwhile, the exodus of Poles continues. American officials confirmed last week that Andrzej Treumann, the highest ranking Polish banker in the U.S., asked for political asylum during the summer. As North American representative for Poland's Bank Handlowy, Treumann helped negotiate the rescheduling of Warsaw's $27 billion...
In a daring night flight across the Baltic Sea the day before the funeral in Nowa Huta, 15 adults and five children defected to Sweden in a single-engine biplane used for crop dusting. After taking off from a rural airport near the Baltic port city of Szczecin, the pilot...
For a brief moment, at least, the scenes of defiance and hope recalled the exhilarating mood of August 1980, when Solidarity was born. In recent months Poles had staged symbolic work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the imposition of martial law last December. This time the angry workers arriving...
Shortly before his death a month ago, Nachum Goldmann, the founder of the World Zionist Congress, the past president of the World Jewish Congress and a leading spokesperson for Jewish-Arab cooperation, joined other Jewish leaders in a moving call for Israeli and Palestinian reconciliation. There men knew well that...
On the domestic front, the regime's calculation proved correct. Although some leaflets appeared in the capital urging Solidarity supporters to demonstrate before the parliament building, Poles seemed reluctant to go into the streets again in the wake of the Aug. 31 riots, when five died in bitter clashes...