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Born to Jewish parents north of Warsaw, Rickover moved from Poland to the U.S. at age four. While working as a Western Union messenger boy in Chicago, he won an appointment to Annapolis in 1918. At the Naval Academy, he stuck to his studies, shunned sports and dating, and graduated in the top fifth of his class. After more than 20 years as an electrical engineer, the restless Rickover in 1946 was posted to Oak Ridge, Tenn., where research was under way % on atomic reactors. Rickover believed the Navy could extend its reach and free itself of the need...
That same evening three miles away, thousands of Poles congregated in a church courtyard. After saying Mass, Warsaw Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski solemnly blessed the dark marble tombstone that marks the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a revered priest who was murdered by secret police in October 1984. Earlier, the crowd of 8,000 waved the red-and-white banners of the outlawed Solidarity trade union...
Gorbachev has attended only one other East bloc party congress this year, in East Berlin, and his presence in Warsaw clearly demonstrated Moscow's satisfaction with Jaruzelski's progress since he became First Secretary in 1981. The Soviet leader expansively praised Jaruzelski and lauded Warsaw's success in "repulsing the onslaught of the enemies of socialism...
...plant managers and holding down wages to help beat inflation. Jaruzelski also hopes to boost exports to aid in repaying some of Poland's $31 billion foreign debt. He would like to enlist the aid of the U.S. as well. But a resumption of normal relations is unlikely, since Warsaw refuses to meet the U.S. demand for a "national reconciliation" that would recognize the opposition and end human-rights abuses...
Nicolae Ceausescu has headed the country since 1965, but is in failing health, reportedly suffering from cancer of the prostate. Under his rule, Rumania (pop. 23 million) has sometimes steered a diplomatic course independent of Moscow. The country, for example, refused to participate in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, does not allow the military organization to hold maneuvers on its soil, and refused to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...