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Zdzislaw Rurarz |
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Zdzislaw Rurarz, an economist, was a principal economic
adviser to Poland's communist leader Edward Gierek in seventies. After Gierek's removal, Rurarz was sent to Tokyo as a Polish ambassador to Japan. After the Martial Law was imposed in Poland on December 13, 1981, Zdzislaw Rurarz requested and was granted political asylum in the U.S. At the time of his defection, Mr. Rurarz had released a statement saying: "I can no longer represent the present regime, which denies the fundamental rights of the Polish people. There is freedom in the United States, and I will carry on in the struggle against the military regime in Poland." |
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