Word: tarnower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrators and human billboards "made some Congressmen just say, 'Oh, what are the longhairs up to now?' "complained Barbara Tarnow, Brandeis University's financial aid director and a coordinator for the lobby, "especially since a lot of them looked like hell...
Nothing recalled the Stalinist tactics more vividly than the summary trials of Solidarity members accused of organizing strikes and resistance to martial law. In Katowice, for example, five union members received jail sentences ranging from three to 6½ years. In Tarnow, three workers drew three-to 3½-year terms. Three employees of the F.S.O. automobile plant in Warsaw got two years each. In the same Warsaw court building, meanwhile, proceedings began in the highly publicized trial of Maciej Szczepanski, the former head of the state broadcasting networks, who is accused of embezzlement and bribetaking...