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...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...
DIED. EDMUND MUSKIE, 81, erstwhile Democratic Governor, Senator and Secretary of State; in Washington. His rangy physique and reputation for plain dealing bestowed upon the son of a Polish immigrant the life-long label "Lincolnesque." The image propelled Muskie to two terms in the Maine statehouse and 21 years in the U.S. Senate. There, his environmental concerns earned Muskie the nickname "Mr. Clean," part of a low-key liberalism that landed him the vice-presidential slot on the Democrats' failed 1968 ticket. But the presidential nomination eluded Muskie four years later. In the New Hampshire primary, he was the front...
...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...
...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...
DIED. KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, 54, master Polish filmmaker; after heart-bypass surgery; in Warsaw. An Oscar nominee last year for Red, he made daunting, haunting studies of passion and alienation on the grand scale, as in his 10-hour Decalogue, which dramatizes the Ten Commandments in a Warsaw high-rise, and his Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red), in which troubled souls in France, Poland and Switzerland come to terms with a dark obsession. In 1994 Kieslowski said he was quitting films; he just wanted "to sit alone in a room and smoke." He left behind some of the most elegant...