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DIED. Leopold Leib Trepper, 77, a Polish-born Jew and longtime Communist who in the late 1930s and early 1940s led a 290-member spy network for the Soviet Union that was known to the Germans as the "Red Orchestra"; in Jerusalem. The Nazis smashed the Red Orchestra in 1942-43, and one Hitler aide later estimated that the espionage ring had cost 200,000 German soldiers' lives. At war's end, Trepper was rewarded by the Soviets with a ten-year prison term. Released in 1955, he returned to Poland and was permitted in 1974 to emigrate...
...film. Burnett himself left by train two days later. Correspondent Wierzynski, who arrived in West Berlin by train at week's end, reports that "news gathering in Warsaw came down to finding Polish friends who might know something-an account from a person recently returned from another city or from a worker in one of the big plants outside town." A Polish-born American, Wierzynski says, "I left behind family and a country that only a few days ago was alive, blighted by penury, perhaps, but sustained by freedom and hope. Now the country is in shock and oppressed...
DIED. Theodore Roszak, 74, Polish-born sculptor who was best known for the much maligned, and admired, 37-ft. aluminum eagle he created for the façade of the U.S. embassy in London in 1960; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her 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...
...they have struck without specific warning, as in Italy last week, and in Algeria last October. Only a year and a half after the Haicheng temblor, an 8.2 quake near Tangshan, 90 miles southeast of Peking, caught seismologists by surprise and killed as many as 650,000. Says Polish-born Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff: "At the present level of research, nature almost always surprises...