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...prisoners still held, according to official count, in detention camps. At week's end the Communist Party hierarchy was reshuffled in the first major shake-up since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. The main victim was hard-line Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, who lost his key position as the Central Committee secretary in charge of propaganda and ideology. But, as TIME Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski observed after a three-week visit to Poland, the military government remains very much in charge. Wierzynski's impressions...
Where is the joy in being a writer for TIME if you can't play with a quote, but your book reviewer Stefan Kanfer may abuse the privilege. I excerpt from his review of my new collection, Pieces and Pontifications [June 28]: "[Mailer's] long-projected novel of ancient Egypt [is] here described [by Mailer] as 'amazing . .. chapter by chapter there's extraordinary stuff...
...Stefan Kanfer...
...gatherings were peaceful, but authorities indicated that they would not hesitate to show force if necessary. Early last week police units broke up a religious gathering at Warsaw's Victory Square and removed a flower cross dedicated to the memory of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who had been a defiant symbol of Polish nationalism. Four days later, as worshipers prayed around a newly rebuilt cross, policemen moved into the crowd, checking identity papers and taking some people away for interrogation or searching. This time they let the cross remain...
...home isle of Jersey in the English Channel. There, hundreds of endangered species are kept in safety. Many of them are odd, but in the author's view, not one of them can compare with the weird and lethal species on the other side of the bars. -By Stefan Kanfer...