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Then came the chilling news of Pawlowski's arrest. In a laconic communique last June that was buried in most Polish papers-some printed the item on the sports page-the official Polish news agency PAP announced that the champion had been arrested "in connection with the suspicion that he has committed crimes against the basic interests of the state." Other Polish sports figures and a number of Polish general staff officers are also believed to have been arrested, including a track star, Marek Bedynski, a colonel and two majors...
...violence from the air between 7 and 9. For audiences this simply means that most cops and robbers are now pushed back to 9 p.m. In their place the networks are busy emasculating the medium's most promising genre, the situation comedy, into appropriate pap...
...that, it's hard to care if Ford has a nice family, likes the rubber-chicken circuit, or can beat up Cambodia. Just because he isn't as sinister as Nixon doesn't mean he's a good President. Quit churning out this cynical, sycophantic pap...
...Helsinki could have distracted New Yorkers from grumbling about the city's financial crisis. Where there was a response, it seemed small and partisan. In Cleveland, only about a fifth of the crowds at the city's annual All Nations Festival gathered to hear Dr. Michael Pap, director of the Soviet Institute at John Carroll University, denounce the "psychological victory for the Soviet Union." Near by, one lone picket carried a placard protesting FORD'S SURRENDER OF THE BALTIC NATIONS AT HELSINKI...
...architects of Singapore's development in the last decade are a technocratic elite, directed by the PAP leadership. Lee Kuan Yew has led his trusted team of talented and brilliant senior cabinet members in ruthlessly creating a totalitarian city-state which is oft-cited in the West as a showcase of successful capitalist development and a paradise for foreign investors. Accompanying this experience is a meritocratic-elitist ideology which is summed up in Lee's claim that Singapore will perish if a jumbo-jet containing 300 of Singapore's top leaders were to crash...