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- LETTERS, Page 10Poland Today
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- The U.S. has the opportunity to help Poland in the peaceful
- transition from a Communist regime to a semidemocratic
- institution (WORLD, Aug. 28). But America is dragging its feet
- at contributing significantly to the $10 billion in aid that
- Poland has requested. This sum is small enough if it gives 38
- million souls the chance for freedom and self-determination.
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- Eugene Vamos La Caada, Calif.
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- Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1939, I watched the Soviet
- army invade my hometown in eastern Poland, driving the final
- nail into the coffin of the independence of that nation. Now,
- from the safety of my adopted country, I watch as the Poles are
- ready to repay the favor by dislodging one of the cotter pins
- holding the Soviet empire together. For those in Poland and
- those who fled Soviet occupation, it is time to rejoice and
- hope.
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- Samuel Lipa Tennenbaum West Orange, N.J.
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