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...first snow of winter fell on Warsaw last week, the honor guard stepped smartly up to Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A crowd of 2,000, including a row of officials, watched in respectful silence as President Henryk Jablonski solemnly placed a wreath at the base of the granite monument. In hundreds of towns and cities throughout the Western world, Armistice Day is observed in much the same fashion. But the Polish ceremony marked a significant break with the Communist past, a symbol of rising patriotism that was finally acknowledged by the government, despite the possibility...
...government not only tolerated last week's ceremony, it joined in. Moreover, the regime later allowed a procession of 20,000 Poles, led by boy scouts, to wend their way through the city from the Cathedral of St. John to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. One of the speakers was applauded when he declared: "A revolution has been going on in Poland for a year. It must continue to be a revolution without revolution, without confrontation, without bloodshed. But Poland must become an independent state...
...House of Representatives from the end of World War I through World War II--was during his 25 years of congressional tenure a major spokesman for the Democratic party. Recently, President Reagan--in commemoration of Veteran's Day--asked Fish to place a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier from World...
...virtue of the seeding, the Crimson would not have to play UNC, UConn, or UMass, perhaps the three strongest teams at the tourney, until the finals. The booters will face the winner of the Colorado College-Central Florida match in tomorrow's quarterfinal, and then will probably meet the unknown quantity UMSL in the semis...
...both the Democratic and Republican parties) despite some heavy criticism for insensitivity to minorities. Boasted Koch grandly: "I am mayor of all the people." Coleman Young of Detroit, elected the city's first black mayor in 1973, marched to a landslide third-term victory over a virtually unknown opponent; the winner offered only equivocal support for a defeated measure that would have legalized casino gambling and helped fill the coffers of his financially strapped city. Among the other incumbent mayors re-elected were Republicans George Voinovich of Cleveland and Margaret Hance of Phoenix, and Democrats Richard Caliguiri of Pittsburgh...