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...since his release last November following eleven months of detention, Walesa has been uncharacteristically subdued. Solidarity has been equally quiescent, even though its underground leaders have issued a number of vague appeals for popular defiance to the military rule of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. For its part, the debt-ridden Polish government is eager to project a veneer of normality, a task that is becoming increasingly important with the impending June visit of Pope John Paul...
...mouse may be a small sign that the veneer is about to crack. Following Walesa's brief detention, Solidarity leaders issued a call for widespread protest demonstrations in Poland on May Day. As the most important festival in the proletarian calendar neared, the question also loomed of whether Polish workers and the Polish "workers' state" were once more on a collision course...
...published by Tell-a-Maid, $2.50 each), devised by Linda Wolf, a Beverly Hills language teacher, consist of detailed checklists of chores in Spanish and English, terms for household and garden utensils and multicolored pages of cutout cards with instructions in both languages, like "Take out the trash" and "Polish the silver." The books, available at supermarket and pharmacy checkout counters, have drawn fire from some Hispanic organizations that regard them as racist and demeaning, but have been defended by such groups as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Says Author Wolf: "If I can save a maid...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed...
Jozef Pinior, one of five fugitive Solidarity leaders who met with former union chief Lecb Walesa on April 9-11, was taken into custody in his hometown of Wroelaw, according to a dispatch by the official Polish news agency...