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Neither Bibigate nor the self-satisfied smirk nor the American manner prevented Israelis from going for the whole package, not just the polish but the steel underneath. If the younger, tougher, smoother candidate raced to the top almost before his resume built up to it, the slimmest of majorities was persuaded that his youthful energy and conservative caution hold the greater promise. Voters concluded that Bibi's there is there, and it belongs in the Prime Minister's office...
...veteran Moscow reporter YURI ZARAKHOVICH followed Yeltsin around the country while Washington correspondent JAMES CARNEY, returning to his old posting in Russia, tracked Zyuganov. Back in Moscow, correspondent SALLY DONNELLY and stringer CONSTANCE RICHARDS filed background reports, picture editor MARK RYKOFF directed a team of 10 photographers and Polish journalist RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, a longtime Soviet watcher, returned to a much changed Moscow to take the city's pulse. Coordinating operations was Moscow bureau chief JOHN KOHAN, who drew on eight years' experience in Russia to write an essay about whether democracy will ever be possible there...
Blue Helmets in Lebanon reserved their strongest criticism for the shelling of Qana. Polish General Stanislaw Wozniak, commander of the U.N. force, rejected Peres' claim that army units "weren't aware that there were civilians" at the Fijian camp. "They knew we were sheltering civilians in this U.N. post," Wozniak said. "Simply, you don't attack civilians. You don't attack U.N. positions." U.N. officials insist Israel realized that some 5,000 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks at several peacekeeping posts. "I don't want to believe it was deliberate," Captain Lindvall said of the slaughter...
Born in Chicago in 1942, son of a Polish sausagemaker, Kaczynski was standout smart from childhood. His 89-year-old aunt told the Daily Southtown newspaper in Chicago that his parents were so intent on their son's academic success that they turned him into a "snob." Wanda would take her Theodore to Chicago art museums when he was a baby hoping to stimulate his intellect. "I used to tell her," the aunt said, "'Wanda, the boy is too young. He isn't learning anything.' Later she would tell me [when he was doing well in school...
...Gdansk shipyard. Poland's former president has been on unpaid leave since he left the birthplace of the movement that eventually toppled communist rule in 1989 to become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long...