Word: tyminski
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...Poles knew almost nothing about him. Only now is a more detailed profile emerging -- and its shape is strange and sometimes contradictory. Tyminski slipped out of Poland in 1969, apparently on a tourist visa, and eventually reached Canada, where he studied computer science. In 1975 he founded his own company, Transduction Ltd., which makes computer systems for factories and ^ power plants. Traveling to Peru in 1982, he stayed on for six years, eventually starting a cable TV company. There he met his wife Graciela and also apparently underwent a kind of spiritual transformation among the Peruvian Indians...
...last week, however, details surfaced that contradicted some of Tyminski's accounts. He initially claimed that after leaving Poland, he did not return until last year. But the pro-Solidarity paper Gazeta Wyborcza cited government records that showed he visited the country seven times between 1980 and 1989 -- with the visa for each trip obtained from the Polish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Tyminski called the reports...
...Tyminski's showing has piqued interest in his book, Sacred Dogs, a truculent 260-page call to arms that he published at his own expense last summer. Oddly, the fervently pro-business book is dedicated to Roman Samsel, the former Latin American correspondent for Trybuna Ludu, the Polish Communist Party newspaper. Samsel remains a key figure in Tyminski's campaign. "That kind of association ought to raise a lot of eyebrows in Poland," says a Western diplomat. At the least, it has fed unsubstantiated rumors that Tyminski had links to the former Communist government's secret service. No less disturbingly...
...fear that Walesa might play the strongman led many of his old Solidarity comrades to turn against him. Even as they close ranks behind him to head off % a Tyminski victory, some are still wary. "Of all the postcommunist countries, Poland alone had a broad democratic movement like Solidarity, which we hoped would prepare us for any setbacks," says Bronislaw Geremek, once a close adviser to Walesa who later allied himself with Mazowiecki. "This election proves that Poland, like all the others, must confront the authoritarian temptation." Next week it must also confront the temptation to cast its fate with...
...Stanislaw Tyminski, and what will happen if he wins? -- John Major becomes Britain's Prime Minister as the Tories pick Thatcher's favorite to succeed her. -- The Soviets face their most miserable winter since World War II, Germany begins ferrying tons of food, and the U.S. worries about whether its aid would reach the neediest...