Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities have been recaptured by zealots with Marxism-Leninism on their lips, and Warsaw's daring painters are beginning to feel the pressure of disapproval. The press is under total censorship, and editors seldom even try to evade it with the subtle nuances for which Polish journalists were once famous...
...longer mentioned, for the chosen road leads mainly to Moscow. In foreign policy decisions, Poland is scarcely more independent than the Ukraine or Byelorussia. Of all the Soviet bloc leaders, Gomulka was first with lavish congratulations for Nikita Khrushchev after he torpedoed the summit conference last year. Last month Warsaw hastened to rename a street and a collective farm after Patrice Lumumba, following Moscow's big propaganda blast in memory of the Congolese "symbol of anti-colonialism." Two "Freedoms." In exchange for this kind of cooperation, the Russians keep the 30,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland close...
...prepare for the worst . . . even jail or physical harm." Empty Streets. Churches are still full, for Poles are highly religious, and the vast quantity of vodka they consume is hardly sufficient solace for a life that is endlessly drab. Industrial production is up, and food supplies are adequate, but Warsaw, like most Polish cities, is bleak and shabby; at night the ill-lit streets are empty but for a scattering of street cleaners, drunks and rattletrap taxis...
...passenger list of Sabena Airlines' 707 Jet Flight 548 for Brussels counted all the types that have become so familiar to airline attendants at New York's Idlewild International Airport. There was the young man bound for Warsaw to the bedside of his cancer-ridden mother, the teen-age wife of a Europe-based serviceman making her first flight, the pregnant young wife of another overseas G.I., the middle-aged priest going to Brussels for a reunion with his parents, the tourists brimming with language books and visions of Notre Dame and Rimini, the comfortably tired Brussels businessman...
AMERICAN-STYLE motels will be built on the comfortless, two-lane highways that link Moscow with Minsk and Warsaw. Previous Soviet attempts at motels have been tent-and-cottage camps...