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Aging & Suspicious. What makes Poland's intellectuals so angry is that it was in Poland, after the enlightened, anti-Stalinist regime of Gomulka took power in 1956, that the trend toward intellectual freedom in Eastern Europe really began. In the days following the popular uprising that installed Gomulka, Warsaw...
Commission members number in the tens--instead of the thousands most observers feel the situation requires. They are organized into two sorts of units: "fixed" teams which are now largely useless in a shadowy guerrilla war: and all-important "mobile" teams, which hardly deserve the label. Not even land transport...
The effect has been to give the Poles a virtual veto on all ICC actions of consequence. The Commission cannot follow up a complaint without Polish approval, and once it gets into the field, a Pole dissent can sabotage its efforts.
There is still considerable irony in one 1958 episode in which the North Vietnamese and Poles opposed the dissolution of the Laotian ICC. The ICC claimed its job was finished, but the Communists disagreed. They were afraid a more effective supervisory force--namely the new Laotian government--would replace it...
Adzope is one of a score of drab, sprawling towns which you pass on the Ivory Coast's main highway north of Abidjan. The West African countryside is absolutely flat, and in the thick coastal forest the town is invisible until a turn in the road brings you into the...