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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...
...POLISH PREMIER RESIGNS...
That may be easier to do now that the Black Entertainment Network has broadcast what amounted to an hour-long infomercial for O.J. This was Simpson doing what he does best--selling himself--and it flopped. BET, which promised a "no-holds-barred" interview, was trying to polish its reputation as a news operation. Simpson's goal was to hawk the $29.95 home video in which he gives his own version of the night when Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were butchered. Simpson reached out to BET because none of the networks or major cable operations would...
WARSAW, POLAND: The confusion over whether Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy had resigned ended today when Oleksy formally handed in his resignation to President Aleksander Kwansniewski. Oleksy quit amid accusations that he had passed classified documents to the Soviet Union from the early 1980s to March, 1995. In a televised speech Wednesday night, Oleksy said he was going step down to clear his name. TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw: "Oleksy's resignation does not mean the communists are losing power here. In fact, it is just the opposite. A recent poll, which was not conducted by the communists...
Despite the fact that he signed a seven-figure deal once (for a Warner Bros. movie on his life), Lech Walesa is going back to the shipyard. The former Polish President has moved to Gdansk, and intends to return to his old place of employment. If he's really lucky, he may earn almost as much as his state-supplied bodyguard...