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...local authorities suffers from the twin failings of modern Polish historiography: Communist rewriting of history and nationalist bias. Michener all but ignores the division of Poland between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. And he does not mention the Nazi slaughter of Polish underground forces and civilians during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, as the Red Army stood by across the river from the capital...
...surprising, then, that Polish farmers have little faith in what they derisively call "those people down in Warsaw." The government, they feel, refuses to adjust to the fact that farming requires long-term planning. In addition, the "rural brigades," groups of soldiers who occasionally visited farmers during the martial law period to remind them of the government's good intentions, hardly inspired confidence. Scoffs Szur: "They knew less about farming than my two-year-old daughter. They pretended to be interested in me, but they really wanted to hear about my political views." Farmer Jan Skrzypkowski was spared such...
...with Marxist-Leninist principles, the judges' guidelines emphasized intelligence and morals over beauty. But the 21-year-old winner, Lidia Wasiak (35-24-36), is a knockout by any ideological standard. The competition for Poland's first beauty queen in 25 years was held last week at Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, where Wasiak won the crown that opens the way to the Miss World contest this November in London. A crowd of 4,000 watched their comely comrades parade across the stage in regional costumes, evening gowns and finally, in an inescapable concession...
Ever since his youth in Rozana, Poland (as Yitzhak Yezernitzky), Shamir has dedicated himself to militant Zionism. While a law student at the University of Warsaw, he threw all his energies into Vladimir Jabotinsky's aggressive movement pledged to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. After emigrating to British-ruled Palestine in 1935, Shamir entered the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, only to drop out in 1937, as the Arab revolt against the burgeoning Jewish presence in Palestine intensified. That same year, he joined Irgun Zrai Leumi (National Military Organization), the radical terrorist group...
...reflections of a bystander trapped in Chilean riots? A note composed during demonstrations in Warsaw? If the author of those lines, American Traveler Richard Perkins, is to be believed, the city described was Paris. Furthermore, what Perkins saw during a six-day trip to France earlier this month was "so shocking" that he wished other Americans could "witness the tragedy being inflicted upon a proud and once free people...