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...panel of ambassadors from Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic said that European solidarity will help to quash unemployment, economic weaknesses and corruption in their respective nations...
...Union offers Poland an opportunity to claim a meaningful role within Europe, he said...
While Shields had success at the U.S. club level, Agustsdottir has already played internationally. She played against such European powerhouses as Italy, Spain, Russia and Poland in World Cup qualifying with the Icelandic National Team...
...DIED. ALINA PIENKOWSKA, 50, diminutive, soft-spoken founding member of Poland's Solidarity labor union whose crucial role in the 1980 Gdansk shipyard strike began the country's successful struggle against communism; of cancer in Gdansk. The Polish government tried restricting news of the Gdansk strike by cutting off telephone lines from the yard. Pienkowska spread the word by contacting friends in Warsaw, leading to a wave of strikes across the country...
...Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, edited by Michal Grynberg (Metropolitan Books; 493 pages), tells the story in a new way, with riveting immediacy, through a collection of 29 personal records assembled in Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute and now available for the first time outside Poland, in English translation. Most of the writers of these accounts are unknown. Many of their records, scribbled in Yiddish or, more often, Polish, were found in attics and basements of the ruined city after the war. Some of the stories are unbearable to read. The Diary of Anne Frank...