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...life [was] to live the life of a normal man." A generation after his death, Albert Camus's Notebooks continually show that the "normal" virtues of courage, of decency, of uncompromising accuracy are, in fact, as vulnerable as great writers - and as rare as great writing. - Stefan Kanfer...
Brzezinski has taken a personal interest in coordinating new initiatives toward his native Poland. In the past year Washington has extended more than $500 million in grain credits to Poland, and when Carter visited Warsaw last December, he sent his wife Rosalynn and Brzezinski to meet with Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the assertive leader of the country's 31 million Roman Catholics. In Washington, Brzezinski has received a steady stream of visiting Polish writers, academics and journalists, most recently Krzysztof Kozlowski, an editor of the outspoken Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny...
Whether or not there was any connection with Moro, the arrest of the four was a hopeful sign. For one thing, it showed increased police efficiency in tracking down terrorists. At almost the same time, in another demonstration of cooperation, French security guards at Paris' Orly airport picked up Stefan Wisniewski, 25, another of the most wanted 20. Wisniewski, about to board a flight to Yugoslavia, was stopped when a French inspector recognized the alias on his false passport because of information supplied by Bonn...
...EIGHT SIN by Stefan Kanfer Random House; 288 pages...
This first novel is commemoration of and tribute to some forgotten victims of the Nazi death camps: the gypsies of Eastern Europe. If the world is touched by the plight of the Jews, writes Stefan Kanfer. "what are we to say to a people totally annihilated or scattered, with no testament or psalms to calibrate the deep well of the past, no compensatory county, no telethons, no bond rallies, no touring orchestras...no prophets except the ones in the store windows who tell fortunes for a dollar...