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Disgusted with the international community's failure to stop atrocities in Bosnia, the United Nations' chief human rights investigator for the region abruptly quit today. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist prime minister and a former political prisoner, said Western inaction afterSerbs overran the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa was "unacceptable to me. One cannot speak about the protection of human rights with credibility when one is confronted with the lack of consistency and courage displayed by the international community and its leaders...
...Wojciech Mazowiecki, 38, business desk editor and news/managing editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland. Mazowiecki intends to explore issues surrounding freedom of expression, the right to privacy and the right to know...
...past, John Paul has not hesitated to involve himself in Polish politics, albeit surreptitiously. His friend Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Solidarity intellectual who was Poland's first postcommunist Prime Minister, this month told TIME something that church officials in the past frequently denied. After the communist regime imposed martial law in 1981, the Pope wrote letters of counsel to Solidarity activists interned by the communists; priests and bishops served as couriers because they were not subject to body searches. Said Mazowiecki: "Their robes carried more mail than many workers in our postal service...
Popular discontent is running deep, as evidenced by a wave of strikes. When respondents were asked in a recent survey which of six leaders governed Poland best, "none of the above" came in first with 28%, followed by "no answer" with 18%. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first noncommunist Prime Minister, was the leading human at 14%; Lech Walesa, the current President and long considered the dominant figure in Polish politics, drew only 8%, coming in sixth behind Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last communist leader. Many fear that a succession of weak, short-lived governments pursuing inconsistent economic policies could open...
...Poland, privatization was a key ingredient of the shock plan that took effect last year when then Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government lifted price controls, cut off state subsidies and began to reform the banking and monetary systems. The government late last year began selling shares in five of the most successful companies: Exbud, a construction firm with 1989 sales of nearly $15 million, and four smaller profitable enterprises, including a cable manufacturer and a glass mill. Foreign investors will be prohibited from purchasing more than 10% of the shares, though they could ! petition the authorities for more...