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...BORN. To Danuta Walesa, 36, and her husband Lech Walesa, 42, leader of Poland's outlawed independent union, Solidarity, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace, now working most of the time at his old job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard: their eighth child, fourth daughter; in Gdansk. Name: Brygida Katarzyna. Weight...
...hard part: convincing Germans worried about losing their jobs to open their wallets. Through The 3-G Looking Glass The emergence of third-generation (3-G) mobile-phone services in Europe got curiouser and curiouser in December, as O2 Ireland fired up its 3-G network and CEO Danuta Gray declared that "a limited number of customers" are already using it. It's limited, all right: 25 to be exact, or six phones for every million people on the Emerald Isle - and there won't be any more anytime soon. O2 flipped on its 3-G switch now because Irish...
...tiny village near Lodz in the Polish heartland. The primary school gym is decked out with bunting and tables are groaning with homemade sausages and dumplings as about 450 people from all over Poland gathered for a farmers' congress toss back vodka at a rate their visitor cannot match. Danuta Hübner, the demure and determined Polish Minister for European Affairs, has been hitting the boards in places like Skaradki for months to persuade Poles to vote yes to joining the E.U. in the national referendum set for next year. Amid the din, one of the delegates turns...
...games of table tennis. He developed close links with the military and security services. His critics accused him of being authoritarian, a "President with an ax." In another historical irony, he was defeated by a former communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski. Walesa went back to Gdansk, to his villa, his wife Danuta and their eight children. But at 54 he is still young, and he recently announced the formation of his own political party. Like Gorbachev, he finds it very difficult to accept that he has become a historical figure rather than a politician with serious chances...
...then there is Danuta Michalowska, an actress who performed with Wojtyla in an underground drama group, the Rhapsodic Theater, during the Nazi Occupation. After his election as Pope, she sent him a formal message of congratulation, lamenting that they could not stay in touch because of his new eminence. Back came a handwritten note from John Paul, gently chiding her for thinking he would ignore her. Since then she has written the Pope dozens of letters, and every one has been answered...