REFUGEES: Free Man in Manhattan

Just before dawn one day last week, a greying, carefully dressed man left his twelfth-floor room in Manhattan's Chatham Hotel, where he was staying with the other members of Communist Poland's U.N. delegation. Suitcase in hand, he tiptoed down the fire stairs to the ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor of international law at Cracow...

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