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...only perspective I have had is that of prison." Moreover, the sometimes bloody experience of martial law has taught dissidents the futility of opposing head-on a regime backed by tanks and guns. "We have learned our lesson," said Seweryn Jaworski, once the vice chairman of Solidarity's Warsaw-based Mazowsze chapter. "We will no longer play into their hands. We know we cannot beat them by gathering in the streets...
...ostentatious show of openness and reason, typified by Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski's televised debate last week with two former Solidarity members. Most viewers, however, quickly recognized the pair as apostates who had publicly recanted their allegiance to the union during the martial-law period. Nor have Warsaw's claims of liberalization persuaded the U.S. to lift its objections to Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund or to the restoration of Poland's most-favored-nation trading status. Both measures are crucial to the economic health and political stability of the regime...
...fate of one such ghetto has become an emblem of resistance: the Warsaw inmates, pitifully outnumbered by SS troops, battled with pistols, rocks and knives against tanks and cannons. In May 1943, along with the buildings that held them, the fighters were reduced to ashes. Monuments have risen to commemorate the uprising, and periodically a dwindling number of survivors meet to recall the martyrs and make the celebrated vow "Never again." But another ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz...
...week to attend ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of Rumanian independence, President Nicolae Ceauşescu presented him with the Star of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. The Rumanian leader told the Brazilian daily Jornal do Brasil last week that his country "is determined not to accept any kind of nuclear weapons on its territory...
Government Spokesman Dimitrios Maroudas blandly asserted that Greece had opted out of the maneuver, an exercise focusing on possible invasion routes through Eastern Europe, because "the only threat" to Greece came not from Warsaw Pact nations but from Turkey, the country's traditional enemy to the east. American officials suspected that the announcement might have been triggered by objections from Greek Communists, who are uneasy over the improving relations with the U.S. But because Athens still intends to join in a much larger NATO exercise in October, Greek and foreign observers were prepared to dismiss the sudden demise...