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...Reported by Tamala M. Edwards/Washington and Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw
...ways. Aleksander Kwansniewski, a 41-year-old former communist party minister, captured 51.7 percent of the vote in weekend elections, edging out President Lech Walesa, who drew 48.2 percent. "The real surprise is that Walesa was able to make this a race at all," TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw. "He was trailing badly as recently as six months ago, so his comeback is striking. Kwansniewski's victory shows that Polish people do not want the church interfering in politics. Walesa had the active backing of the Catholic Church and it didn't generate great support for him. Walesa...
Disgusted with the international community's failure to stop atrocities in Bosnia, the United Nations' chief human rights investigator for the region abruptly quit today. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist prime minister and a former political prisoner, said Western inaction afterSerbs overran the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa was "unacceptable to me. One cannot speak about the protection of human rights with credibility when one is confronted with the lack of consistency and courage displayed by the international community and its leaders...
...Reported by Sam Allis/ Boston, Sylvester Monroe/San Diego, Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw, Jennifer Warner/Moscow
...friends of his youth. Several times a year, he dines with Jerzy Kluger, a Jewish classmate from Wadowice who is a businessman in Rome. Swapping stories and memories, Kluger calls the Pope by his youthful nickname, Lolek. John Paul likes to spend his vacations hiking with the Rev. Father Tadeusz Styczen (pronounced Stee-chen), the Polish philosopher who succeeded to Wojtyla's chair at the University of Lublin and plays a key role in the shaping of his encyclicals. Styczen, 62, continues to be fascinated with John Paul. "He still remains a mystery to me. He begins to pray...