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Cinema: From Poland, a witty look at love and revenge...
...convulsive lurch toward capitalism. Anything is possible for a man with a dream and no scruples about realizing it. Karol plunges into the black market, into real estate and international finance; he comes this close to murder. And all in an elaborate scheme to lure Dominique to Poland for some sweet, fatal revenge...
...been reprinted six times in Britain, where in May it received the daily Independent's 1994 foreign-fiction award. Sorrow of War appeared on the shelves in Sweden in April. It will go on sale in France, Norway and Italy later this year and in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the U.S. next year. The English version is already available across Asia but is hard to find. Ninh, who is writing his next novel on the war, will receive half the $15,200 Independent prize money but little more. He still supports his wife and child with odd jobs...
Other countries are reporting falloffs ranging from 20% in Poland to 30% in Bulgaria. By comparison, during World War II, births dropped 25% in Germany and Japan...
Israel and the Vatican put 46 years of stony silence behind them by establishing full diplomatic relations today. The ground-breaking agreement, cemented last Dec. 31, signals a reconciliation with Jews led by Pope John Paul II, whose native Poland witnessed many of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Vatican sources told TIME Rome bureau chief John Moody that the announcement was likely held back almost two months as the Pontiff waited for recent Mideast unrest to subside: "The final part of the negotiations was a bit harder than anybody had anticipated...