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...Voice of America and Deutsche Welle, the West German government's network, are top sources of information. In the So viet Union and Eastern Europe even government officials listen to find out what happening in their countries. The Kremlin was so annoyed by short-wave reporting of the Polish crisis that last August, for the first time in seven years, it began wide-scale jamming, filling the air with static to block out those irritating signals from the West...
...witnesses in a Chicago court said they had seen Franciszek Walus beat and murder Jewish residents of Kielce and Czestochowa while serving as a Gestapo agent from 1939 to 1943. Though Walus, a Polish emigré, insisted that he spent those years on labor farms in Germany, Federal Judge Julius Hoffman, 85 (who presided at the Chicago Seven trial in 1969), ruled that he had won citizenship by hiding his Nazi past. Facing deportation, Walus, 58, hired a new attorney who found documents showing that the Gestapo had a 5-ft. 7-in. height minimum (Walus...
Sophomore Ted Chappell cleaned up with a 1:57.17 in the 200-yd. fly. Returning to swim unofficially in the 200-yd. backstroke, Chappell once again demonstrated an eagerness to polish his strokes...
Adding to protesters' woes, Joseph Mlot-Mroz of the mysterious Polish Freedom Fighters, Inc. showed up for Saturday's demonstration. The scourge of Boston area demonstrations, this stocky middle-aged man attends many public gatherings with a carefully painted placard disparaging Israel and praising the United States. He gives no explanation for the connection between Polish workers and politics in the Middle East...
When several people doused him with ink and tried to take his sign away a small fight broke out and police jumped in to arrest everyone involved, including the Polish freedom fighter. "The problem is that if they want to protest, they have to be prepared to let other people join them," one policeman said after the scuffle was broken up and the picket line reformed...