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That may add polish, but the A.N.C. bandwagon is already a juggernaut. There is hardly any doubt that the Congress will win a majority in the country's first free, multiracial parliamentary and provincial elections on April 26, 27 and 28. But the A.N.C. wants to win really big and capture at least 67% of the 22.4 million eligible voters in the nation of 38 million people. That way the ^ A.N.C. would take 328 seats, or two-thirds of the 490-seat bicameral Parliament -- enough to write and ratify the permanent constitution all by itself...
...express their fury at declining living standards, some 30,000 Polish workers from around the country converged on Warsaw and marched through sleet and snow in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the fall of communism...
...order to reach his audience, Spielberg had to focus on some of the positive aspects of the Holocaust, namely an exciting story of heroism. But Spielberg does not fabricate anything, and he does not omit anything either. The movie graphically displays mass shootings, the liquidation of a Polish ghetto and the gas chambers at Auschwitz...
...cinemas he visits with Stella. Details, like the outrageous flares, pendants and sheepskin jackets she wears, are convincingly retro. The only contextual problem is the accents. Ironically, the only French-sounding actor in the mainly American and British cast, Polanski, plays the only non-French character (Trokovsky is Polish).One is tempted to wonder why, in this case, the film is set in Paris at all. But (silly me) we ought to be used to unanswered and unanswerable questions...
Russia needs to be told that it does not have a veto over NATO membership. That only an imperial Russia would take offense at East Europeans finding shelter in NATO -- the Polish army, after all, is no threat to Moscow. And that if Russia insists on military pressure on its neighbors, it will pay a high price, economic and diplomatic, in relations with America...