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Scholl said that by sending the e-mail, he wanted to convey his belief in free expression and that a language barrier due to his Polish origin may have made the e-mail seem overly offensive...
...Florida's death row for a 1986 double murder, to life in prison; by a court in Miami. Over 100 British parliamentarians continue to press for a retrial, based on what they consider significant errors in the millionaire's original 1987 trial. RESIGNED. ARCHBISHOP JULIUSZ PAETZ, 67, high-ranking Polish prelate, following an "inconclusive" Vatican investigation into accusations, which Paetz denies, that he molested clerics; in Rome. "Not everyone understood my genuine openness and spontaneity toward people," he said. RETIRING. RONNIE FLANAGAN, 53, Northern Ireland's progressive chief of police who through the late '90s succeeded in changing the force...
...Dario Castrillon Hoyos, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, implied that, because of the cases in the U.S., the sex scandals were a problem only in English-speaking countries. But recent revelations in the Pope's homeland show that the problem is more widespread. In February, the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita published a story alleging that the Archbishop of Poznan, Father Juliusz Paetz, made a habit of sexually assaulting young clerics from the local seminary. According to the report, Paetz's behavior became so notorious that the rector of the seminary, Father Tadeusz Karkosz, forbade the archbishop to visit...
...self-proclaimed Worker's Paradise, seeing the birth of an independent labor movement? Not if Beijing has any control over the situation. The Communist Party traces the fall of the Soviet Union to Poland's legalization of the Solidarity labor union, and leaders still deride worker movements as "the Polish disease." It was the sudden emergence of China's first independent union in May 1989, during the Tiananmen Square uprising, that prompted the leadership to send in the tanks. (A large number of the uncounted victims of that slaughter were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen; in the crackdown that...
That spit-and-polish soldier in uniform behind the desk at the Army recruiting office may soon be a thing of the past. To save more of its manpower for important duties closer to the battlefield, the Army in May will begin deploying civilians rather than uniformed soldiers in some of its recruiting stations around the country. Responding to congressional direction, the service will pay two Virginia companies $172 million to staff about 65 of its 1,700 recruiting stations over the next five years with civilians (mostly former noncommissioned officers). Some critics wonder whether youngsters thinking about enlisting will...