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...Walesa's rough arrogance with gentle gibes. "I appreciate Mr. Walesa's achievements," he remarked. "But he reminds me of an athlete who keeps harking back to the fact that he once won a gold medal." The challenger's strategy worked. "Symbolically, Kwasniewski represented modernity and change," says Wiktor Osiatynski, a Polish historian. "It is a corrupted modernity with a communist past on its back, but it's still modernity...
...member who attended last weekend's San Diego convention said the only place there was no apartheid in South Africa during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention in 1984 attracted 27 groups from across the country; there are now 940 groups. Professor Wiktor Osiatynski, chairman of the Commission of Education on Alcoholism in Warsaw's Stefan Batory Foundation, says A.A.'s rapid rise in Poland can largely be attributed to the Solidarity trade-union movement. "Solidarity was the first event in Poland's history where people began to realize that they could tackle...
While the reader (like Wiktor) is suitably impressed by this woman, he may have a hard time finding her a believable character. These are rather extreme statements, and the reader knows nothing of her that would make these statements more characteristic of her than anyone else. Michener tells the reader that she plays Chopin mazurkas "as if she must make an important statement for all Poles living in exile..." and that she has been Wiktor's mistress for two nights, but he has shown us nothing that would prove the basis of such political fervor or such a character...
...keep saying We," Wiktor said, awed by the young women's fury, and she replied: "I was part of every revolution," and he said; "You weren't even born," and she said: "And I shall be part of every move that occurs after my death, because Poland will never surrender. People like me will never surrender, and you must...
...been involved in a drunken brawl and had to be "forcibly calmed" when the militiamen took him to a first-aid station. Przemyk's friends denied the charge. Przemyk died two days later, after undergoing emergency surgery. In an emotional letter to Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poet Wiktor Woroszylski wrote that "the surgeons who opened up the boy's abdomen had nothing more to do: inside was a bleeding pulp." He added that the doctors emerging from the operating room were weeping. Underground leaders of Solidarity issued a statement calling Przemyk a victim of "paid militia torturers...