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I applaud your choice of Lech Walesa. Like past selections for Man of the Year, Walesa is a natural leader. But the award should not go to Walesa alone. It belongs to all the Poles who, through their dedication to freedom and their bravery and defiance in the face of...
The 3,000 Poles who jammed into St. John's Cathedral in downtown Warsaw last week had come to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany. What they witnessed, along with the Mass, was one of the most courageous displays of free speech since martial law was declared on Dec...
Glemp branded as "unethical" and "invalid" the government's demands that Poles sign loyalty oaths and renounce their membership in the suspended Solidarity union federation. He deplored the deaths of workers killed in clashes with troops-17, according to authorities, although unofficial estimates range as high as 200. Glemp...
TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik was in Gdansk on Dec. 13 when martial law was declared. He has watched General Jaruzelski try to subdue the country and has seen the Poles react and resist. Shortly after leaving Poland last week, Hornik filed this report on what life is like in Warsaw...
It is almost as though each individual were attempting to submerge himself in the rest of society, to lower his or her profile so as not to attract attention: to attract attention today in Poland might mean trouble. And most Poles are having trouble enough just surviving.