Word: poznan
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...family should arrive here "in about two weeks," his mother, contacted in Poznan, Poland, said last night...
...year-old poet, essayist and literary critic from Poznan--who could not be reached for comment last night because he does not have a phone--was described by his mother as "very tired" from his academic and dissident work, but "overjoyed" at the news that the government had accepted his application for a passport...
Approval for Baranczak's departure had reportedly been delayed for some time because of bureaucratic red tape at the ministry and at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, where Baranczak teaches. Both have granted him three-year leaves-of-absence, his mother said...
...addition, officials at the University of Poznan--which dismissed Baranczak in 1977, ostensibly because of his political activities--reinstated him, reportedly at students' request...
...Soviet army moved into East Germany to crush a widening worker-led insurrection in support of political freedom and economic improvements. Three years later, there were popular uprisings against pro-Moscow regimes in both Poland and Hungary. The Kremlin let the Polish army put down the rioting Poznan workers, who were demanding "bread and freedom." But the Soviets sent their own troops into Budapest in a brutal suppression that left at least 25,000 Hungarians dead and forced thousands more into exile...