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...world's practitioners of the ancient aristocratic sport of fencing, none was more flamboyant than the Polish star Jerzy Pawlowski. Winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1968 and three-time world fencing champion in saber, the handsome 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Polish army was the undisputed sports hero of Poland. So great was the country's pride in Pawlowski's prowess that Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek is said to have brought the fencer with him to an informal meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...
...Hero," which characterized a certain famous sports figure, identified as "P," as having a secret life that he had hidden under the mask of a fencer. The Polish weekly newspaper Literatura ran a savage caricature representing Pawlowski as a sinister spy whose fencing thrust is parried and his saber broken as he tries to gather military secrets. Such attacks on Pawlowski in the official press suggest that he may still be alive and that Polish leaders aim to prepare public opinion for a formal trial-possibly by a military court. If Pawlowski were convicted of treason, which carries the death...
Beyond that there have been some unsettling encounters with the often jingoistic, saber-rattling North. Last month firefights broke out when two flotillas of North Korean patrol boats ventured along the South's coastline. Then, adding credence to the South Korean claim that the North's President Kim II Sung is bent on aggression, two tunnels, apparently intended for use by North Korean guerrillas, were discovered in the southern half of the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries. Last week Park warned anew of an invasion by the North's 480,000-man army (the South...
...epee team dropped but one bout as John Hirshfeld and Matt Simmons went undefeated. The saber squad did not fare as well. Gordon Rutledge managed to win two of his three rounds, but John Majors lost twice and Larry Tu had even worse luck, coming up empty-handed...
...caricature. She is less villainous, but also less interesting, than Brian, Wendy and the Tates' two loathsome teen-age children, and Novelist Lurie does not really see this. Still, Erica has her moments. She befriends Wendy, by now pregnant, and convinces herself that this mewling muddle of saber-toothed helplessness represents Woman Wronged. Nothing will do, she announces, but that Brian divorce her and marry Wendy. This is horror at its most gothic-an intermittently tolerable mistress about to be transformed into an utterly frightful wife, complete with infant-and Brian's soul is filled with dread...