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...Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Studies, called Milosz an activist in the struggle against the "tyranny" of language and added that the poet--who joined the Faculty as a visiting professor this year--believes that "We don't use language--language uses...
Five years ago, Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and 13 other Polish scholars banded together to form what would become Poland's best-known dissident organization, the Workers' Self-Defense Committee...
...heating up with alarming ferocity. In its harshest warning to date to Poland's Communist leaders, Moscow last week declared that an "unbridled" campaign of "rabid propaganda" against the Soviet Union had been allowed to reach "dangerous limits" with impunity. Delivered personally to Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania by Soviet Ambassador Boris Aristov, the message called on Warsaw to take "radical steps" to curb the "malicious propaganda and actions hostile toward the Soviet Union...
...dint of sacrifice and subterfuge, the Poles scrape by somehow, and no one is starving. Families save their coupons for ham or pork on Sunday or buy on the black market. Says Stanislaw Szczepanski, Vice Minister of Agriculture: "To Poles, a meal is not a meal without a piece of pork. It is a matter of status." Those who cannot get meat make do on Sunday with pierogi, pastry stuffed with a kind of cottage cheese...
...Central Committee, mindful of Moscow's warning that Poland should not resort to "non-Leninist" means in trying to solve its economic problems, is taking a fairly hard line on the subject. Insisting that the state would not give up its right to choose managers, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania warned Solidarity that the government would use "any means necessary to defend socialism." The Central Committee seemed ready, however, to offer two concessions: 1) the state would be prepared to select directors from lists of candidates submitted by workers' councils; and 2) the workers' councils of "smaller enterprises...