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...third of all adults have served in the security service or cooperated with it. Bulgaria's secret police is especially valued for its loyalty. Explains an East European expert in London: "In Soviet eyes, the Bulgarian security service does not carry the same risk of defections as the Polish or Czechoslovak secret services?this is important in operations with a high risk of exposure...
...region. Moscow has long been suspicious of any such religious activity, fearing that it might stir up nationalist sentiments, especially in the Baltic republics and the Western Ukraine. But what must have irked the Kremlin leadership even more was the Pontiffs strong support for Solidarity, the independent Polish trade union...
Wiretaps of phone calls in which the Turkish gunman mutters that he received the money and says he will now carry out his assignment. Reports that the gunman met with a suspected Bulgarian agent at a small hotel in Rome to plot the murder of Polish Labor Leader Lech Walesa. Word that a key witness recants her testimony and thus threatens the alibi of the Bulgarian, who issues a denial that he aided the Turk...
Sometimes the people moved the wrong way, however. Much of the series was shot in Yugoslavia, including scenes of Polish refugees fleeing the invading Nazis. Hundreds of Yugoslav peasants were carefully assembled for the desperate flight, when rain sent them scurrying for home. "They were there with their animals," explains Associate Producer Barbara Steele, "and they weren't going to give their cows pneumonia...
...same might be said of Wouk. His plot is sometimes cumbersome and contrived. The wedding of Natalie's Polish relatives, for ex ample, looks as if it had been borrowed from Fiddler on the Roof, and the timing, the night before the German invasion, is ludicrous. His dialogue is often wooden. "Why did you insist on marrying me?" Natalie asks Byron. "We could have made love as much as you wanted. But now you've tied me to you on this rope of burning nerves." Furthermore, in all the hours of script there is scarcely a glint...