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Although the committee is still divided on at least one substantive issue--election procedures for a new student assembly--"the bulk of our work is done and all we have to do is polish up the report so that it is a collective opinion," Dowling said...
...yesterday he was "more concretely optimistic than at any time in the recent past" that Stanlslaw Baranczak, who has been invited to join the department, will be allowed to leave Poland. Baranczak, a 33-year-old poet, was allowed to take a brief trip to Stockholm in December, but Polish authorities must still grant him a separate passport for him to begin the three-year associate professorship first offered by Harvard...
...Baltic seaport of Gdansk, sirens wailed to signal the start of a four-hour "warning strike" that interrupted public transport and shut down more than 800 plants. In Warsaw, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered defiantly over idle buses and streetcars as drivers joined workers from some 60 local factories and offices in a related half-day stoppage. On the outskirts of Bydgoszcz, 140 miles northwest of the capital, police turned back columns of angry tractor drivers who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the middle of the town. The snowballing protest climaxed on Saturday, when millions of workers...
...historic meeting of the two men, each in his own way a symbol of freedom to the Polish people, was marked by its simplicity. Approaching the Pope at the threshold of the papal library, Walesa dropped to his knees, kissed the papal ring and bowed his head. A devout Catholic who tries to attend Mass daily, Walesa at first resisted when the Pope tried to lift him from his knees. John Paul then ushered the union leader into the library for a half-hour private chat. One presumed topic of their conversation: how to keep the itchier members of Walesa...
From its beginning, Walesa's independent trade union movement and the Polish Catholic Church have benefited from each other's support. But the church has taken a consistently conciliatory line toward the Communist government of Party Chief Stanislaw Kania, a fact that has irritated Solidarity's militants. The Pope last week seemed intent on soothing the ruffled workers and enhancing Walesa's stature. Observing that his visitor spoke extemporaneously in his public remarks after their library talk, the Pope held up his own carefully prepared notes and joked: "Mr. Walesa is a young...