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...trio of powerful debut novels by Asian-American women to arrive in bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King (HarperCollins; 310 pages; $24) by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger (Simon & Schuster; 365 pages; $23) by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and Polish-American, respectively). Although these books share some themes--all of them deal with parents and children in conflict over such issues as cultural and sexual identity--each author has a sharp, specific vision...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL KROL, 85, archbishop; in Philadelphia. During his 27 years of leading the nation's sixth largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Polish-American prelate was an opponent of abortion and nuclear weapons, a master builder of some 100 churches and a player in Vatican politics, where he was a force behind the rise of John Paul II to the papacy and an adviser on financial matters...
Both men and women are full time members of the Polish-American Citizens Association, which runs a small private bar on Cambridge Street for its members, who are primarily Cambridge retirees...
Friends said yesterday that Kadziewicz was an involved member of Harvard's Polish-American community, even while he worked overseas...
...dual identity" as a Polish-American was one of the qualities many of his friends remembered. His job at Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts Western news and entertainment to Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union, marked the culmination of a career in Polish-American relations. Kadziewicz also worked as an interpreter for the U.S. embassy in Warsaw from...