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...champion and the first African to win the race, placed fourth with a time of 2:12:41, followed by John Campbell, 40, of New Zealand, in 2:14:19. Campbell's time smashed the Boston course record in the Masters division (2:17:53), set last year by Ryszard Marczak of Poland...
...dispute began when Ryszard Dominski, principal of an agricultural school at Mietno, two miles from Garwolin, took up a new government campaign to enforce a 1961 law banning the display of religious objects in public buildings. Dominski, a local Communist Party official, ordered crucifixes removed last December from seven lecture halls, where they had hung since the school's founding in the 1920s...
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Among the few journalists who had been witness to the vagaries of Haile Selassie's reign was Ryszard Kapuściński, 52. A widely traveled former correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuściński was evidently impressed by the family resemblance shared by absolute rulers, whether they reign in Addis Ababa, Moscow or Warsaw. In fact, the real subject of his ambiguous, compelling memoir is not Haile Selassie's primitive autocracy. It is modern totalitarianism reduced to its primordial elements...
...Polish LOT airliner approached East Berlin on a flight out of Warsaw, two young East Germans walked into the crew cabin. One of them clubbed the flight engineer with his gun butt. The other pressed his revolver against Pilot Ryszard Dabrowski's neck and told him to head for West Berlin. Two Soviet MIGs screamed up alongside the IIyushin-18 turboprop, but not even their buzzing could dissuade the hijackers. When the plane landed at Tegel Airport in the French sector of West Berlin, they handed over passports and guns (which turned out to be unloaded) and announced...