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Five years ago, Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and 13 other Polish scholars banded together to form what would become Poland's best-known dissident organization, the Workers' Self-Defense Committee...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Baranczak Recalls Days With KOR | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

Since then, KOR has supported various Polish labor movements and has offered legal protection for persecuted workers...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Baranczak Recalls Days With KOR | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...spite of strong American support for Solidarity, the independent Polish trade union, in its challenge to Communist domination, the Polish people mistrust both the United States and the Soviet Union, a leading Polish journalist said yesterday...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Reporter Kabalinski Says Poles Still Mistrust U.S. | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...Poles fear that the Reagan administration will play the "Polish card," Jacek Kabalinski, president of the 5000-member Warsaw Journalists Association, added in an interview given after he spoke at an off-the-record seminar at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Reporter Kabalinski Says Poles Still Mistrust U.S. | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...maintains that the average Pole spends four hours queuing up each day. That estimate drew derisive laughter from most shoppers. Says one retired woman: "I spend half my time in lines. I do all the shopping for my daughter and her family." Indeed, the elderly are one of the Polish family's most valuable assets, since they have more free time for waiting in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed Up with the Food Fight | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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