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...alone while her husband was taken out into the frosty night, dressed only in a bathrobe, then pushed into a cell with broken windows. This was the same cell where Professor Klemens Szaniawski had fallen sick with pneumonia right after he finished chairing a session of the Congress for Polish Culture...
...Polish, the word for snowman, balwan, has a second meaning: blockhead or dummy. Prisoners at the Bialoleka detention camp no doubt had that ambiguity in mind when they dressed a snowman in a general's cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. The repercussions were recounted in From Day to Day, an underground Solidarity bulletin that was closed down by security forces in Wroclaw last week...
DIED. Stanislaw Karpinski, 90, Polish flying ace who was called Poland's Billy Mitchell because he advocated a strong air defense years before the Nazi invasion of his country; in Los Angeles...
...Solidarity's cinematic messenger, a director whose films, including Man of Marble and Man of Iron, were surprisingly critical of life in Communist Poland. Rounded up along with other Solidarity dissidents during the Polish government's declaration of martial law last December, Andrzej Wajda, 56, was held under house arrest. Then, in a reversal, Polish authorities decided to let him leave Poland temporarily to shoot a film in Paris. Wajda, whose Man of Iron was nominated for an Oscar, has refused all interviews in France. But in a formal statement, he did say, "The message of my films...
...Poland, the mind-set was that the army would not act against the Polish people. Never mind that the U.S. Government, most West Europeans and perhaps the Poles believed this too. The press prides itself on listening to a lot of opinions but making up its own mind, and so must share in the error. Some analysts are now convinced that the Polish government was more effective in persuading the army than the Polish people that Solidarity had "gone...