At the time of his defection, Mr. Buckley recalls, 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statement saying: "I can no longer represent the present regime, which denies the fundamental rights of the Polish people.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." This proves to be an illuminating exploration, starting with our grain exports to Poland, but soon widening to include the Soviet Union's reaction to Solidarity, the disillusion with dogmatic Marxism, and the state of detente. ZR: "I was seeing in Poland all the time the drive for a change ... the very fact that more than one million of the Communist Party members in Poland joined the Solidarity movement. I myself was not a member of the Solidarity movement, but I was not hiding my sympathy for Solidarity. When the Solidarity delegation was coming with Lech Walesa to Tokyo, I received them. I made a reception for them. I

invited the Japanese, although the [Polish] government was very unhappy about that.... I just was believing until the last moment that maybe they will come to reason, that maybe the system will change, but then I lost hope."