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...five, who were detained in the eastern Alsace region, were later reportedly released without charge. No Amends Needed POLAND The government said it would not be seeking reparations from Germany for losses suffered during World War II, despite a parliamentary resolution asking it do so. Prime Minister Marek Belka said the issue of compensation was "closed." The government did agree to set up a commission to evaluate the losses, to serve as a "reminder" of the war's consequences. Sharon Resolute MIDDLE EAST Israel's security cabinet approved a compensation package that would give up to $500,000 per family...
...group of Germans seeking compensation for property lost when they were forced out of territories handed to Poland after 1945 - a claim angrily rejected by Poles. "I would like to underline that it was not us that started this spiral. It was the other side," said Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka. Permanent Presence BELARUS President Alexander Lukashenko announced a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a third term. Elected in 1994, Lukashenko won a referendum in 1996 to extend his initial five-year term by two years; Western observers criticized his 2001 re-election...
...wants to stay in Iraq forever." MAREK BELKA, Prime Minster of Poland, after discussing with President Bush Poland's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq early next year...
...going to close his factory, but his next investment is going to be in Poland." From Eastern Europe, calls for harmonization sound like sour grapes. "We look at the German economy with a sense of envy, its advanced technology and its leading position as an exporter," Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said in May. "Once we get closer to such a level it will be easier to discuss." Others suggest Germany should follow the East's lead. Branislav Durajka, tax chief of the Slovak Finance Ministry, says that since the flat tax was implemented, higher receipts from consumption and value...
Cosby was ahead of his time. There's a bit of a boom in biblical fiction these days: Jacob's four wives got the novelistic treatment in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and this spring brought us Rebecca Kohn's The Gilded Chamber, starring Esther, and Marek Halter's Sarah, which gamely fills in that figure's early life and makes a passionate love story of her marriage to Abraham. Like Cosby's routine, these books all come with a pleasantly blasphemous tingle. Do they dare improve on the Bible? What do they give us that the Good Book...