Word: zygmunt
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...Josef Bochenski, 80. After intensive negotiations, which were led by Swiss Justice Minister Kurt Furgler, the gunmen agreed to a 48-hour extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect the presence of Polish Attaché Jozef Matusiak, who was concealed in an attic. Eventually, Matusiak managed to crawl through a window onto the shingled embassy roof, and Swiss commandos standing by with ladders hauled...
...didn't go far enough." Still, even the ethnic Poles recognized, as did many other Americans, that for now about all Washington could do to protest the repression in Poland was brandish symbols of anger and dismay. "It is better than doing nothing, but not much," said Zygmunt Kolicki, a construction worker from Union City, N.J. "But it is only a gesture. At this point, all America can do is gesture...
...lines throughout the day. "We buy for each other," she says. "If someone does not come back in two hours, then another person goes out and takes his place in line." Such creative absenteeism, however, hampers the nation's productivity and thus aggravates the problem of shortages. Moans Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka: "People cannot work because they have to stand in line, and they have to stand in line because people are not working. It's a vicious circle...
...York in the fall, when they're lining up for sausages back in Gdansk. But to Zygmunt Przetakiewicz, 35, a representative of Solidarity, Poland's independent union federation, his Manhattan stayover is strictly business. Przetakiewicz has since been busying himself with preparations for the opening of Solidarity's first overseas press information office on Park Avenue South and adjusting to New York City...
...This job is going to be very difficult," says Zygmunt, who now drives his 1979 Oldsmobile to work every day. "The subways are terrible, and the roads-I think they are better in Poland...