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...question on everyone?s lips is: Who is Ostravak? A literary-world pro having a laugh? A genuine post-communist failure? Nobody has an answer, because Ostravak has been meticulous in keeping his identity secret. "People have a chance to rev up their imagination at a full speed," Ostravak explained in an e-mail. "Wandering through my neighborhood they look around whether it's that drunk bum leaning on the corner, or that young girl pushing a baby carriage...
...Dilo, a beer bar where Ostravak's pals ran up his cellphone credit while he was in the men's room, I guzzled lager with a man who, by his own account is a communist-era spy turned post-communist shady dealer and private eye. "You're looking for Ostravak? I know him," he nodded knowingly before he shook his head. "You reporters have no clue...
Surprisingly for those who thought they knew his type, Hu has placed himself at the forefront of China's new assertiveness. Hu, 64, has never studied outside China and is steeped in the ways of the Communist Party. He became a party member as a university student in the early 1960s and headed the Communist Youth League in the poor western province of Gansu before becoming provincial party chief in Guizhou and later Tibet. Despite a public stiffness in front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent...
Within its own neighborhood, there are signs that China's behavior is changing in more constructive ways. China fought a war with India in 1962 and another with Vietnam in 1979. For years, it supported communist movements dedicated to undermining governments in nations such as Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Yet today China's relations with its neighbors are nothing but sweetness and light, often at the expense of the U.S. Absorbed by the arc of crisis spreading from the Middle East, the U.S. is simply less visible in Southeast Asia than it once was, and China is stepping into...
RESIGNED. Stanislaw Wielgus, 67, recently appointed Archbishop of Warsaw; in the wake of disclosures that he collaborated with the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, Poland's communist-era secret police; at a ceremony intended to mark his elevation; in Warsaw. Other clergy in the Polish church, a key backer of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement, have been linked to the S.B., but Wielgus' connection is especially painful in Warsaw, where in 1984 the S.B. infamously murdered Jerzy Popieluszko, a highly popular, anticommunist priest. With the publication of documents suggesting Wielgus had informed on clerics for years, the prelate, who maintained he never spied...