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Walesa, 37, was born during the Nazi occupation in the village of Popow, between Warsaw and Gdansk, and attended a state vocational school in nearby Lipno. After his father died, Lech's mother married her brother-in-law, Stanislaw Walesa; she was later killed in an auto accident while visiting the U.S. The stepfather, a lumberman, now lives in Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: He Gave Us Hope | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...evening's climax: Kristin's announcement that she was pregnant with her brother-in-law's child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Striving to Shake Up Jell-O | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...some areas, the telephone company set up special switchboards so that villagers could reach relatives in America and Northern Europe. One man in Balvano called his brother-in-law in West Germany, but did not have the heart to reveal the family tragedy. "You'd better come home because things are not going well for us here," the caller said. The emigrant worker had lost his wife, his four children, his brother and his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death in the Mezzogiorno | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Cianci, who is a brash and fiery campaigner, has accused Garrahy's administration of being implicated in a public housing fraud and of forcing the University of Rhode Island to hire the Governor's former brother-in-law as personnel adviser at a salary of $30,000. Garrahy has responded by charging the mayor with misleading campaign advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trying to Unhouse Democrats | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, occasionally hits the road with her, and has been instrumental on Melissa's last two orchestrated pop-rock records. Sister Claudia Cagan, 34, sings backup, and Mother Ruth creates some of her costumes. Manchester, 29, is even getting some help up front: Brother-in-Law Steve Cagan, 34, is her conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 22, 1980 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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