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Article: Defected ex-ambassador says new life is Poles apart
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 8, 1986
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`I am not afraid to die," declared the Pole, who has lived under
a death sentence for four years.
Romuald Spasowski, twice Poland's ambassador to the United
States, defected on the day in 1981 that Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski
declared martial law against Solidarity. Eight months later Poland
sentenced Spasowski in absentia to the maximum penalty.
Now Spasowski, his wife, Wanda, and their daughter, Misia, live
cautiously somewhere "in the Washington area." Having escaped the
Iron Curtain, however, Spasowski is not about to spend the rest of
his life under siege. He was in Chicago - prudently traveling under
an assumed name - to publicize his autobiography, The Liberation of
One (Harcourt ...