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...first snow of winter fell on Warsaw last week, the honor guard stepped smartly up to Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A crowd of 2,000, including a row of officials, watched in respectful silence as President Henryk Jablonski solemnly placed a wreath at the base of the granite monument. In hundreds of towns and cities throughout the Western world, Armistice Day is observed in much the same fashion. But the Polish ceremony marked a significant break with the Communist past, a symbol of rising patriotism that was finally acknowledged by the government, despite the possibility...
...oblivion: Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the military hero who was a bitter foe of the Soviet Union and the person the Poles consider the father of their modern country. As chief of state in 1920, Pilsudski repulsed a Soviet invasion by routing the advancing Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw...
...left Warsaw and later departed for Rome for talks with Pope John Paul II, the Archbishop said that he thought that the situation "was clearing up. I'm a little more optimistic. What we need is social order. We need authority and we need work. It was for that reason that we had our meeting...
Order certainly was not what Walesa faced when he returned to the unruly Solidarity meeting, which had continued in rump session while he was taking part in the discussions in Warsaw. There was still a touch of the mutinous mood when Walesa took the podium to make a report. Said he: "The authorities have stated that they are prepared to undertake talks on all problems important for the Poles." But he warned that Jaruzelski expected both sides to make compromises...
...also uneasy about the profession of medicine. It was there that the question was planted: What is medical power? What is the authority that permits it?" After teaching psychopathology in Paris, and then French at Sweden's University of Uppsala, the restless young Foucault held official positions in Warsaw and Hamburg. Out of his wanderings, internal and external, came Madness and Civilization, which begins with a poetic evocation of the medieval ships of fools-those wandering hulks that really did bear captive cargoes of madmen away from their own communities...