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...main reasons for Conable's selection as president was to allay concerns about the bank's objectives. To U.S. Congressmen wrestling with budget austerity, he is a familiar and reassuring figure. Born in Warsaw, N.Y., and educated at Cornell University, the independent-minded Conable sat in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1985, earning high marks for his intelligence and integrity. For 18 years he was a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, on which he eventually became ranking Republican. While serving as finance chairman of Vice President George Bush's 1980 presidential campaign, Conable cemented...
Only Poland could harbor the contrasting scenes that took place within miles of each other last week. In the cavernous Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, 1,776 delegates attending Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...
...acceptance to Harvard, the retired builder and son of a Rumanian immigrant turned nostalgic. "Never in a million years when I was pumping gas in the Bronx terminal market did I think my grandson would attend Harvard," he told me. My mother's father, an immigrant from Warsaw and a shopkeeper, wept and drank to my health...
...truth: Zbigniew Bujak, a fugitive underground leader of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement, had been arrested after eluding police for more than four years. Only days later, Poles received a second jolt. The Washington Post reported that the Reagan Administration not only knew in advance about the Warsaw regime's plans to impose martial law in December 1981, but according to Polish Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, failed to do everything in its power to prevent the imposition. Solidarity's dwindling band of sympathizers warily concluded last week that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski was hell-bent...
...cause and an effect of pop's global reach, but American pop commodities are also successful abroad because they work. Blue jeans are well designed and rugged. Most Hollywood filmmaking is technically impeccable. "American TV is extraordinarily beguiling to the Poles," says Sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb, who lived in Warsaw for 18 months, "for the technical quality alone...