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...attempt to lure out of hiding the 60 to 80 Solidarity activists who went underground when martial law was declared, the government promised not to prosecute any activists who turned themselves in before Oct. 31. But Zbigniew Bujak, former director of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, declared that the union's leadership would wait for a full, unconditional amnesty. Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released from detention last November, said that the government's new measures were worse than martial law and would only "dig a wider gulf between the government and the governed...
Your story on János Fekete, "Hungary's Savvy Banker" [June 27], sounds like an advertisement from the National Bank of Hungary. As long as Hungary belongs to the Warsaw Pact, its bankers and businessmen cannot seriously be considered independent thinkers. After Poland's failure, the Kremlin is using Hungary in its desperate search for Western credits. Although you assert that Hungary has the "most efficient economy in the Communist world," the truth is that the Communist economic system simply does not work...
...vacation in July or September and offered him August instead, Walesa decided to play hooky. Accompanied by his wife Danuta and three of their seven children, he climbed into the family's white Volkswagen minibus and set off for Sokolow Podlaski, a small town 55 miles from Warsaw, to go fishing. He claimed that his holiday request had been approved by supervisors but later rescinded. Said Walesa: "The foreman and shift boss decide when every other worker can take his vacation. Why must my vacation be decided by a general...
...vagaries of Haile Selassie's reign was Ryszard Kapuściński, 52. A widely traveled former correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuściński was evidently impressed by the family resemblance shared by absolute rulers, whether they reign in Addis Ababa, Moscow or Warsaw. In fact, the real subject of his ambiguous, compelling memoir is not Haile Selassie's primitive autocracy. It is modern totalitarianism reduced to its primordial elements...
...plans. Some Western diplomats surmised that the bland language of the final document was a result of pressure from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow this week. Andropov will undoubtedly urge Kohl not to accept deployment of Pershing II missiles on West German soil...