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...week. "The governing party's strategy is to win votes by demonizing the transformation [to free markets]." So far that strategy has worked just fine for the pis, which was elected last September (with 156 out of 460 seats in the Sejm) and is led by identical twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. They promise to get tough on corruption, crime and ex-communists, and build a "strong state" that promotes Polish national interests; Jaroslaw is party leader and Lech President. The hung parliament has hampered policymaking, but the brothers' combativeness has kept the political pot boiling. They've picked...
...Woman of the Year in the past several decades. Some, of course, are easier than others. Our correspondent was expelled from Iran only days after his Man of the Year interview with the Ayatullah Khomeini (1979) was published, and we were able to print an interview with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa (1981) when Poland was under martial law thanks only to a correspondent's ingenuity: he sewed the transcript into the lining of his overcoat and smuggled it out. Except in such obviously dicey situations, we've usually found getting Man of the Year interviews, even under deadline pressure...
...knack for politics must run in the family. After Jaroslaw Kaczynski led his Law and Justice Party to victory in Poland's parliamentary elections last month, his identical twin brother Lech was elected President last week. The brothers, who talk as many as a dozen times a day by phone ("We have the same family. There is much to discuss," joked Lech in an interview with Time before the parliamentary vote), look set to dominate Polish politics for the next five years. The Kaczynskis' appeal is due in large part to their promises to maintain social programs threatened by their...
Flowers wreathed the gates of the Gdansk shipyard, where the trade union movement that helped overthrow communism in Poland was born 25 years ago. In Solidarity Square, named after that movement, patriotism bloomed, too, as crowds chanted "Polska! Polska!" at a ceremony last month celebrating Solidarity's founding. For Lech Kaczynski, 56, mayor of Warsaw and leader of the Law and Justice Party, it was an emotional moment. Lech and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, helped establish Solidarity, and returned to Gdansk for the commemorations. "I was thinking of all those years of underground struggle," Lech told Time last week, sipping...
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...