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BORN. To Danuta Walesa, 36, and her husband Lech Walesa, 42, leader of Poland's outlawed independent union, Solidarity, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace, now working most of the time at his old job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard: their eighth child, fourth daughter; in Gdansk. Name: Brygida Katarzyna. Weight...
...example, labors at the City Lights Powerhouse: "This girl is chaining your breakfast together, citizen. She is hitching the light up for your asinine patio party, your old starlight teevee movies, your electric toothbrush, vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems...
...after he told the restive populace to "be not afraid" and declared in the holy town of Czestochowa that "man cannot remain with no way out," the new Solidarity free-trade-union movement made him its virtual patron saint, flying the papal flag at the gate of the Gdansk shipyard...
...labyrinths of squatter huts without electricity or plumbing and filled to their corrugated roofs with pestilence and vermin. Every once in a while, life there gets even crueler. Two Sundays ago, an incident occurred at Block 4, Lot 41, of a Manila shantytown on the grounds of the Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell over. Either way, a conflagration began. The slum extends well into the fetid shallows of Manila Bay, and neither...
...wave of publicity the QM2 is generating can only help. But Cunard's latest icon will require delicate navigation. In November, when a gangplank collapsed at QM2's French shipyard, killing 15 people, headlines proclaimed a "jinxed" ship. A shipboard virus on the high-profile QM2 or a fine for polluting the sea would be certain to be heard around the world. Not to mention the ultimate nightmare--a terrorist attack. But as police boats patrolled in Southampton last week and Gurkhas formerly from the British army provided security on board, private boats charged to take gawkers as near...