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...violent, Klan-like squad. But even residents bitter about the prospect of black neighbors are, for the most part, unhysterical. "We don't want them living here," a Western Electric worker says, "but I don't think we'd have shooting or anything like that." A Polish-American welder is similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have to. But I'm not gonna burn a cross or reach for my rifle We've come too far for that in this country." That...
...Cincinnati, which ballplayers are almost never able to do. Both were nurtured and nudged by worshiped fathers who competed in organized sports into their 40s. In Bridgehampton, N.Y., between the potato-farming Yastrzemskis and the Skoniecznys on the maternal side, there were enough men and boys to field a Polish-American town baseball team that was something to sneeze at. Carl Sr. was the shortstop, Carl Jr. the second baseman. At 15, young Yaz experienced the unusual delight of joining his father in hitting back-to-back home runs. Now his own son Mike, 20, is a senior at Florida...
Across the country, meanwhile, there was little reaction to Reagan's sanctions except in Polish-American communities, where sentiment was predictably strong. "He is going in the right direction," said Stefan Harvey, president of the Southern California division of the Polish-American Congress. "But he didn't go far enough." Still, even the ethnic Poles recognized, as did many other Americans, that for now about all Washington could do to protest the repression in Poland was brandish symbols of anger and dismay. "It is better than doing nothing, but not much," said Zygmunt Kolicki, a construction worker from...
...donations from Polish Americans. When the organization first approached Polish authorities in early May about the possibility of sending food aid, says the CARE spokesman, "their reaction was remarkably favorable." The final agreement, signed in Warsaw in June, allows CARE to supervise distribution of the packages. They will be sent to the neediest groups: the elderly, young children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The spectacle of capitalist charity aiding the victims of Communist economic shortcomings was heavy with political symbolism. Said Aloysius Mazewski, president of the Polish-American Congress, which launched the CARE project: "The fact that they...
...nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis. One of his neighbors there was Polish-born Marian Zacharski, 29, an affable, fast-climbing executive of the Chicago-based Polish-American Machinery Corp. Since both men enjoyed tennis and watching their children play in the pool, there seemed to be nothing extraordinary about the friendship between them. Nothing, that is, until both were arrested last week...