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...defrocked four Nicaraguan priests for not quitting the Sandinista government, including Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal, a Trappist monk. That same year the Pope, after returning from his second trip to Poland, was ired by an article in L'Osservatore Romano -- the semiofficial Vatican daily -- that criticized Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement. The article was signed by deputy editor Don Virgilio Levi. Dressed down by the Vatican's Under Secretary of State, Levi proposed to run a retraction. But the official pointed sternly to the pen and paper on his desk. "The Holy Father wants you to write your...
...recent bone- replacement surgery. He looked otherwise pink-cheeked and robust. Of his mind, there was no doubt. To their congratulations for being chosen Man of the Year, John Paul expressed thanks, then added, mischievously, "I see that in the past, you have given this honor to Lech Walesa and to Pope John XXIII -- but also to Stalin and Hitler!" Sancton, a bit nonplussed, explained, "Holy Father, you must understand that we have a good list and a bad list. You are on the good list." Gratified but still playful, the Pontiff replied, "I hope I always remain...
...lingering Russian troops. In Poland, he promised that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would expand to include Warsaw -- and, of course, the other former Warsaw-pact countries. So what did Clinton get in return for all theAmerican largess? At least one gift, a saxophone from Poland's Lech Walesa.parpar
President Clinton will be the first U.S. leader to visit independent Russian neighbors Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia next month when he kicks off a grand swing through Europe. The Baltic stop will precede a meeting with Polish President Lech Walesa and the G-7 economic summit on July 8-10 in Naples. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a friendly presidential visit to the Baltics was inevitable: they're serving as pathfinders to show Russia the way to modernization...
...says Henryk Szlajfer of the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. "All that is nonsense." Says Jaromir Novotny, chief of foreign relations at the Czech Defense Ministry: "Yeltsin is not a democrat. He is a Russian feudal lord." Angry about NATO intransigence over the membership issue, Polish President Lech Walesa has accused the West of "indecision and selfishness...