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Shoppers were lured by such exotic wares as Nigerian cotton shirts, jars of sand and gravel from different parts of the world, Polish boxes, trays and dolls, several volumes from the 1830 Encyclopedia Britannica, and costumes from a 1920s marching band...
...concern was poverty. Shipyard conditions were harsh. Once, Walesa writes, 22 workers were burned alive while welding a ship whose fuel tanks had been filled early to save time. When police shot and killed at least 45 workers during a 1970 shipyard strike, Walesa fully realized the isolation of Polish workers. "We were outside the West's field of interest," he observes. In 1973, after Walesa had married, his mother and stepfather left for the U.S. "The beautiful life only glowed for an instant," writes Walesa. "They returned in lead-lined coffins. America changed nothing...
Rather than escape, Walesa tried to come to grips with Poland. The book charts Solidarity's rise, beginning with the watershed 1980 Gdansk strike he led. "I compare Polish society after August 1980 to a beggar who lives in a + corner of a lovely house which he does not own, and then suddenly he finds that he has owned it all along." The joy was short-lived. Solidarity was suspended after martial law was declared in December 1981 and outlawed one year later...
Number two: James Brown. I finally caught up to Brown at New York's Carnegie Deli in January, 1986. The hardest workin' man in show business was workin' hard to polish off a sandwich with some sort of white stuff (perhaps turkey or tuna) inside...
...told them that "every nation has the right of self- determination" but noted that "it is also necessary that respect for human rights is assured." That restraint contrasted with his tough talk aboard the papal jet en route to Uruguay but typified the Pope's comments in Chile. The Polish-born Pontiff is keenly aware that authoritarian and dictatorial governments are not easily budged...