Word: warsaw
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...late has gone smoothly in Rome. The low point was the Pope's botched appointment last month of the new Archbishop of Warsaw, who had to immediately resign after revelations that he had been an informant for the Polish communist regime. There are also broader complaints inside the Curia that other appointments, and key documents, have being delayed. "We're still waiting on important changes," says a senior Vatican official. "Benedict is turning out to be more cautious than we had thought, and so far Bertone hasn't managed to really get things moving...
...shock over Reagan's willingness at Reykjavik to discuss deep?and possibly even total?cutbacks of U.S. nuclear weapons on the Continent without first consulting NATO allies. Such a move would force them to base their defense primarily on conventional weapons, in which they are considerably outclassed by Warsaw Pact forces...
...imagine I'll ever forget, in The Shadow of the Sun, an account of sharing space with a furious cobra, or, in Another Day of Life, his lonely admission of dependency on daily telex connections with Warsaw, when he "felt like a wanderer in the desert who catches sight of a spring." And there are lines that resonate today, some of which I found last night flipping randomly through the books I do have here, such as a meditation in The Soccer War on how tyranny enforces life-denying silence on its subjects. But what sticks in my mind most...
...third-world correspondent for a Polish news agency. As it happened, I read too long from the former and had to forego the latter, which I regret. The passage I'd selected was the first thing I thought of after reading that Kapuscinski, 74, had died of cancer in Warsaw...
DIED. Ryszard Kapuscinski, 74, stylish Polish writer whose textured, empathic coverage of Africa brought him global acclaim; of unknown causes; in Warsaw. As the lone Africa correspondent for the Polish Press Agency in the 1950s and '60s, he witnessed widespread unrest as nations began to break free from colonial rule. Among his best known books was The Emperor, which chronicled the last days of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. "I wish I could convey what Africa was like," he said. "I have experienced nothing like...