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POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • MAY 2012 www.polamjournal.com 1 MAY 2012 • VOL. 101, NO. 5 $2.00 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY JOURNALESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com POLAND’S PROTECTOR, MIRACLE WORKER DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE PAGE 7 GAGGING MEDIA FREEDOM IN POlAND • A SlAP IN POlONIA’S FACE • CUBA COUlD USE A JOhN PAUl II ANDERSON COOPER INSUlTS POlISh TRADITION • ThE KF COMBINES hISTORY AND ElEGANCE • “TRZECI MAJ” EVENTS MIKUlSKI SETS TERM RECORD • PACIM GETS A NEW hOME • lANDRY, OlKOWSKI, AND lYSIAK TO ENTER PAShF NEWSMARK Steps in the Right Direction Karski to Receive PHOTO: MICHAEL PIETRUSZKA PULITzER FOR KOCIENIEWSKI. Presidential David Kocieniewski, 49, of the New Medal of Freedom York Times was awarded the Pulitzer WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prize in Explanatory Reporting, for a Speaking at the United States series on corporate tax evasion called Holocaust Memorial Muse- “But Nobody Pays That.” The West um, President Barack Obama Seneca, N.Y. native, who began work- announced he will award ing at the Times in 1995, said he be- a posthumous Presidential came a business reporter in 2010, “in- Medal of Freedom to Jan trigued by this tax beat that they had been struggling to fi ll K a r s k i , for two years.” a former His reporting uncovered a vast array of tax loopholes offi cer in and subsidies afforded to large enterprises. Kocieniewski’s the Polish editor on the series, Winnie O’Kelly, said “the lead story U n d e r - was about something that didn’t happen. G.E. didn’t pay g r o u n d taxes.” d u r i n g W o r l d CRASH vICTIMS ExHUMED. Citing fl aws in the initial War II autopsies performed by Russian offi cials, Polish investiga- who was tors have exhumed the remains of three of the 96 Poles a m o n g JAN KARSKI. Wit- killed in the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Presi- the fi rst dent Lech Kaczynski. nessed Nazi atroc- to pro- ities firsthand. Two of the 96 victims were exhumed in Poland, follow- vide eye- ing a fi rst such exhumation last August. Victims families witness accounts of the Holo- and offi cials say other victims also have reports riddled caust to the world. with mistakes, and prosecutors say more exhumations are The Medal of Freedom is possible. the Nation’s highest civilian Col. Zbigniew Rzepa, spokesman for the chief military honor, presented to individu- prosecutor’s offi ce, said there were discrepancies in evi- MEMBERS OF THE POLISH HERITAGE DANCERS OF WESTERN NEW YORK (bottom, left) als who have made especially dence gathered in Poland when compared to the Russian Alexandria Clark and (bottom, right) Cassidie Pasek get last-minute advice from older members meritorious contributions to documentation. “We had to carry out the exhumations to (l . to r.) Jessica Kisluk, Lauren Kocher, and Francesca Sosnowski before the start of Buffalo’s the security or national in- clarify all the doubts,” he said. Annual Dyngus Day Parade, Easter Monday. In addition to the parade, the troupe made stops terests of the United States, at numerous parties around Western New York, where they demonstated genuine Polish to world peace, or to cultural SOCCER PLANS UNDERWAy. Security police in Za- dance steps. Doing the same for the holiday was PHDWNY’s contemporary, the Harmony or other signifi cant public or mosc, Poland, prepared for the Euro 2012 Soccer Champi- Polish Folk Ensemble, who also assisted in lending an authentic air to the day’s celebrations. See “Karski,” page 3 onship by staging mock train rescue of hostages. The train- ing scenario showcased Poland’s security preparedness Philadelphia Archbishop Closes Two More for a possible terrorist attack. German and Spanish police Dream a Polish Dreamliner conducted the training which involved armed attackers hi- Polish Parishes, Third on Chopping Block LOT will be the fi rst airline to off er service between jacking a train carrying soccer fans and having the security PHILADELPHIA — Two Charles Chaput said in Janu- Chicago and Warsaw aboard Boeing’s newest masterpiece forces storm that train with the aim of releasing the sce- more Polish parishes will die ary that the Archdiocese nario hostages. as a result of the fi rst round would be undergoing severe of the Archdiocese of Phila- closings and mergers, sig- THE POET DID IT. The former secretary of Nobel Prize- delphia’s new “Pastoral Plan- naled already by his January winner Wislawa Szymborska found a crime thriller in late ning Initiative,” aimed at 6 announcement to close 44 poet’s effects. Michal Rusinek described the thriller en- merging or closing parishes Catholic elementary and four titled “Blysk Rewolveru” (“Gleam of the Revolver”) sty- in the Pennsylvania Arch- high schools. listically as “a sort of early Agatha Christie” novel. It was diocese. The two parishes to The Archdiocese justifi ed found recently in Szymborska’s apartment located in the be suppressed on July 1 are its decision by citing fi ve fac- poet’s hometown of Krakow. St. Josaphat’s in the Mana- tors, including demographic The crime fi ction story was written in the author’s youth, yunk area of Philadelphia shifts, economic issues, de- and although it will not be published, it will remain in the and St. Stanislaus Kostka in clining attendance, facilities poet’s archives. Plans are that Szymborska’s archives will Coatesville. St. Josaphat’s, evaluation, and “a decrease founded in 1898, will be in the availability of clergy to eventually be housed in a museum of literature, a project merged with a second parish staff parishes.” The last cri- already approved by Krakow city authorities. into St. John the Baptist par- terion encompasses both the Rusinek revealed that Szymborska’s last volume of po- ish. St. Stanislaus, founded general decline in the number ems is slated for publication at the end of April and termed in 1907, will be merged with of priests, as well as ongoing that volume “a literary treasure.” a Slovak parish, St. Joseph, issues related to the Phila- which will become the name delphia Archdiocese’s al- LOT’s 787 DREAMLINER POLES TAKE UMBRAGE AT ExPLANATION. April 9, of the new parish. The Arch- leged cover-up of clergy sex 2012, the New York Times reported on the poem Germany’s diocese also announced April abuses cases. The trial of two by Geraldine Balut the fi rst airline to fl y com- Gunter Grass wrote, which is critical of Israel’s foreign 15 that a third Polish parish, Archdiocesan priests started Coleman mercial fl ights from O’Hare policy in the Middle East. In attempting to describe the Holy Trinity in Phoenixville, March 26. CHICAGO — Starting International Airport using theme of Grass’ 1959 Novel, “The Tin Drum,” a misrepre- is being studied for merger Under Catholic canon law, January 2013, LOT Polish the Dreamliner. LOT has sentation of Poland’s history was offered. with the three other parishes parishioners who object to Airlines, Polskie Linie Lot- ordered eight Dreamlin- The Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American in that Chester County town. closures or mergers can ap- nicze, will be the fi rst air- ers, thus making Poland the Congress issued a statement to the Times, in which the PAC Holy Trinity was founded in peal to the Vatican’s Congre- line to offer service between owner of the youngest fl eet criticized the paper for saying the 1959 poem was an “ex- 1903. gation for the Clergy. The ap- Chicago and Warsaw aboard of commercial aircraft in Boeing’s new 787 Dream- ploration of the rise of Nazism in Germany and Poland. The announcement added peal, which must indicate that Europe. liner. The CEO of LOT, With its largely compos- “Polish Americans are justifi ed in expressing their out- that some churches from the the bishop somehow violated Marcin Pirog, mentioned ite structure, the Boeing 787 rage that Poland, the fi rst victim of Nazism, should now merged parishes might actu- the rights of the faithful or ally be kept for use on special committed procedural errors at a Chicago press confer- Dreamliner is lighter and be portrayed as co-responsible with Germany for Nazism,” ence on March 28, that LOT delivers greater fuel effi - said the PAC. “At the time other European nations were ap- occasions (e.g., weddings, in his decision, must be fi led funerals) but “this will not be in Rome within fi fteen days will be the fi rst European ciency and range for a craft peasing Hitler, the Poles stood fi rm and became the ‘First airline to receive the 787 its size and is said to be the To Fight’ the Nazis in World War II.” possible in all cases.” of the bishop’s announce- Philadelphia Archbishop ment. Dreamliner, and it may be See “Dreamliner,” page 3 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • MAY 2012 ALMANAC VIEWPOINTS P American Polonia hoto Follow us on : P Expresses Concern olish Facebook or visit us Gagging Media Freedom in Poland on the internet at: NEW YORK— Presi- A merican www.polamjournal.com Poland is currently roiled in a de- Pluralism of opinion is essential to dent Frank Milewski bate over TV Trwam. Like the United a democratic society, but governments (right) of the Polish Amer- States, Poland has its own version of the have an interest in controlling public ican Congress Downstate C May • Maj ongress “culture wars,” with debates over reli- opinion, which makes their lives easier.