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Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa was in high spirits as he marched up the steps of Warsaw's gray stone Council of Ministers building last week. Grinning and puffing on his pipe, he joked good-naturedly with the gaggle of supporters around him. But the walrus-mustached electrician was in no mood for levity when he emerged after nearly four hours of talks with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Looking fatigued and depressed, Walesa said only that "we did some things-and we did not do other things...
...study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found no link between pancreatic cancer and use of cigars, pipe tobacco, alcohol or tea. However, it did show that the chances of having the disease were slightly increased in the case of cigarette smokers. But researchers were surprised to find a notable rise in pancreatic cancer among coffee drinkers. Compared with its occurrence in patients who did not drink coffee at all, the disease was two times as frequent among people who drank one or two cups a day and three times as frequent among those drinking three or more...
...consciously serpentine wreathing of its leaves proclaims the image to be formed as much by style as by the impulse to "objective" description. The two work perfectly together. To see why, one may look at the most famous of his water studies, the image of water gushing from a pipe into a cistern. There seems to be no doubt, as Kenneth Clark pointed out a generation ago, that Leonardo's eye was preternaturally fast; he could grasp and isolate fractions of movement in time with a precision that would only be confirmed, more than four centuries later, by strobe...
Harvard Professor Richard Pipes, a Polish emigre and currently Ronald Reagan's principal advisor on Soviet affairs, is the most extreme of the ideologues. In a typically demonic characterization of the Soviet Union, Pipes once wrote that "the Soviet Union had indeed been organized by Lenin from the beginning for the waging of total war and it is to this end that the Soviet government has taken into its hands a monopoly of national powers and resources." Pipes further claims that the Soviets are willing to risk the consequences of a general nuclear war for the sake of political objectives...
...their room, not eager for Lippert's company. Lippert knocked on the door and was told politely not to come in. He pushed against the door trying to force his way in but it wouldn't budge. And so always resourceful he leapt up grabbed ahold of a pipe running above the door swung his feet back and kicked the door in--a feat for which he was later fined...