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31 March 1980

Ice skating and drinks

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Downtown Warsaw Usual morning classes. At 6:30pm Andrew, Ann and I meet Borzena at school and go for a skating session at a nearby ice r...
30 March 1980

Easy Sunday over vodka and Katyn news

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Katyn Memorial, Krakow Easy Sunday. We get together with a few friends in our room. Ann, Romek, Tadek and a ping pong player whose name ...
29 March 1980

A song for the Polish pope

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At 2:30 in the afternoon we meet Jasmina, a friend of some Americans of Polish descent who live in Pascoag, Andrew's home village in the...
28 March 1980

Gasoline and ping pong

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After our usual classes we go for dinner at the Staropolska. Good. Then three more hours of classes at the Center for International Affairs....
27 March 1980

More Berlin planning and party

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Socialist econ lass at SGPiS Our usual morning lesson in socialist economics. The professor is rather shy, and sticks pretty closely to ...
26 March 1980

Planning a trip to East Germany

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In the morning we drive to the East German embassy to pick up our visas. Have to pay USD 6 per person for a double transit visa: we'll b...
25 March 1980

Another good dinner

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Today we meet Larissa, a friend of a friend. Elegant and pretty lady, our age, speaks enough English to have a basic conversation. She is ob...
24 March 1980

Struggling to get visas

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After the usual morning classes we go and have lunch at the Ambassador restaurant, good as usual. Then we are off to the Soviet consulate ...
23 March 1980

Elections for Parliament

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Morning walking about Sandomierz without any particular goal in mind. By lunch time we say goodbye to Elzbieta's family, but not before ...
22 March 1980

Tartars and Lenin in Lublin

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We spend the morning walking about the old town . There is not one single restaurant that is open for business. Also, most shops are closed ...
21 March 1980

Off to Lublin

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After our classes at the Central School the three of us go for lunch at the Warszawa hotel. We order appetizers but for some reason each of ...
20 March 1980

Class in Polish foreign policy

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First lesson in Polish foreign policy. It is not held at the university but rather at a think tank run by the ministry of foreign affairs. ...
18 March 1980

Hope for travel to the East

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Another visit to Orbis gives us some hope, apparently, for some reason, we are now likely to get an individual visa to the USSR and we'l...
17 March 1980

Tour organization for DDR and USSR

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After our usual morning classes we spend the afternoon touching base with the respective tourist offices and consulates to organize our trip...
16 March 1980

Lazenski park, old Jewish ghetto, change of the guard

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Quite a full Sunday that starts with a tour around town in the company of our new acquaintance Jurek. We first visit the Lazenki park, a m...