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Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper, characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism...
Dare, yes -- but succeed? Adam Michnik had his doubts. In his newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the longtime Solidarity adviser said he feared that his estranged former comrade, like the sorcerer's apprentice, had conjured up baleful forces that would have a life of their own. The campaign, Michnik wrote, had unveiled a "society filled with mental chaos, xenophobia and aggressive populism, and a longing for the strength of an iron hand...
Mazowiecki is cautioning his countrymen that economic experiments could bring disaster and warns that an anti-Communist witch-hunt could lead to civil war. His supporters portray Walesa as a potential dictator; Solidarity ideologue Adam Michnik, for instance, recently described him as "malicious, antagonistic and dangerous" and likely to create the first "Peronist-style" government in Eastern Europe. The Prime Minister's standing received a boost last week when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly agreed to a treaty confirming Poland's western border with Germany...
...book's first-person essays get progressively better, longer and more elaborate. Ash's accounts begin in warsaw in 1980, where as an observing historian, he met opposition leaders Lech Walesa and Adam Michnik even before Solidarity became a household world in the West...
Tidying up after revolutions, even bloodless ones, can be messy. In Poland last week, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa attempted to fire Adam Michnik, editor in chief of the union's daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborca. Feeling increasingly left out of the government that he helped create, Walesa is seeking to become the country's President; his sacking of Michnik is seen as nothing but a vain attempt to show that he is still capable of exerting power. But Michnik refused to step down, telling Walesa: "You are slowly changing into a Caesar...