Word: tadeusz
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...manufactured products. The revolutions against Communism were in part a reaction to a system that could not deliver the goods. The Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates that energy consumption in the region will rise 40% by 2005, as countries try to rev up production. Observes Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki: "People are impatient with the lack of commodities. They expect quick results from...
Poland has journalist Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Prime Minister. Czechoslovakia has playwright Vaclav Havel as President. Last week Hungary also put a writer at the helm. The parliament elected Arpad Goencz, an English translator and former dissident who spent six years in jail after the 1956 revolution, as the country's new interim and largely ceremonial President...
...government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki is against holding elections any sooner for fear of upsetting the economic reforms now taking hold. Moreover, many Solidarity officials and legislators are opposed to Walesa's candidacy, dismissing him as a political has-been out of touch with the new realities...
...INVITE LECH AND TADEUSZ TO THE SAME PARTY. Most Poles realize that Solidarity cannot go on being all things to all people: trade union, political party, shaper of the country's future. But hopes that the breakup would be amicable now look unlikely. The problem stems from an old hero. Lech Walesa wants to be President by forcing an early election. But most Solidarity legislators seem to prefer remaining in government and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Even though his drastic economic reforms have cut living standards as much as 40%, polls of Poles show that he is more popular than...
Half a century later, Poland is rushing toward democracy, and officials are looking at the 50th anniversary of his death as a fitting day for a homecoming. During his visit to Washington last week, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited Paderewski's grave in Arlington Cemetery. Whenever his bones are returned, his heart will remain in the U.S. -- literally. Following family wishes, the musician's heart has been enshrined since 1986 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Doylestown, Pa., and there it shall stay...