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Bankers, who once feared that their Polish loans might become total losses, seemed satisfied with last week's settlement. It requires the Poles to pay a stiff 1.75% above the basic international lending rate (currently 15½%). Warsaw is to repay $120 million this year, and the remaining $2.28...
Her name is Maria Victoria Walesa, and since her birth on Jan. 27 the infant daughter of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, 38, has received more attention than any other child born in recent Polish history. From just about everyone, that is, except her father. Interned by Polish military authorities-at...
In Poland, the mind-set was that the army would not act against the Polish people. Never mind that the U.S. Government, most West Europeans and perhaps the Poles believed this too. The press prides itself on listening to a lot of opinions but making up its own mind, and...
The twin events had promised to be the most important since the declaration of martial law on Dec. 13: a major speech by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the country's ruler, and the first meeting of the party's 200-man Central Committee since the emergency began. Poles hoped...
Some cross-country fanatics, in fact, refuse to accept the comforts of touring centers. For purists, there are challenges like the 35-mile, six-day trek across the ridge line of the Sierra in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It is an experience in mountaineering as well as skiing...