Word: bialystok
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...entrepreneurial class, emboldening its members to demand solutions to problems like the 17.9% unemployment rate, stifling bureaucracy and spiraling government spending. "I'd like to slam all those politicians in the head and shake them!" shouts Andrzej Kuzmicki, 40, owner of an underwear company in the northeastern city of Bialystok. "We need real change." Tusk and his Civic Platform say they're offering just that. He's been campaigning hard on promises to bring in a 15% flat tax on corporate and personal income, ease the rules for hiring and firing, and radically streamline government bureaucracy - though he's stopped...
...year-old "Mula" Pisar, the terror began on June 22, 1941. On that day, after two years of Soviet occupation, "the bad was succeeded by the worst." Germany turned on its ally to the East and the Red Army crumbled under the onslaught. Nazi shock troops swept into Bialystok, the city with the second-largest Jewish population in Poland, and wasted no time implementing the Fubrer's plans. On the first Friday of the occupation, Pisar recalls, over a thousand Bialystok Jews were herded into the city's Great Synagogue, which was then set aflame. The following Sabbath, hundreds...
...Pisar's self-appelation accurately describes his present life, it is drawn from his past, and thus encapsulizes his vision of the future. Born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1929, he lived through Soviet occupation and Nazi terror, spending four years in Maidanek, Dachau and Auschwitz and escaping death only through a combination of luck and nerve. One of the youngest survivors of the concentration camps, Pisar lost his entire family to the war and was the only student in his grammar school of 900 to survive. Although he eventually earned doctorates from Harvard and the Sorbonne and rose to intellectual...
...took a walk during the 5 o'clock news broadcast. Frustrated officials finally lifted the curfew, and after a month of newswalks, Swidnik's citizens decided they had made their point and stayed home-but not before their unique piece of resistance had spread to Olsztyn, Lublin, Bialystok, even Warsaw. Explained a Swidnik news-walker: "Every contact between the people and the authorities can be used to show dissatisfaction with martial law and everyone...
Gierek also spent several mysterious hours in Bialystok, near the Soviet border. In the past, the thick forests near Bialystok have sheltered secret meetings between Soviet and Polish leaders. With the 24th Soviet Party Congress scheduled to begin in Moscow on March 30, the Russians are anxious to stabilize the situation next door. For the moment, the Soviets are backing Gierek. If he fails to keep the situation under control, however, the Kremlin may well consider other options...