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...concerns with another international grouping: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has always been and will remain a mutual defense pact, but it has also always been much more than that. During the cold war, even while attending to its principal job of deterring the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO helped to consolidate civilian-led democracy in Spain and to keep the peace between Greece and Turkey. As NATO adapts its mission and expands its membership to meet new challenges and opportunities, it will be a positive factor in the promotion of democracy and regional peace. The prospect...
CLEARED. WOJCIECH JARUZELSKI, 73, general who led Poland's communist military regime from 1981 to '89; by parliament, which voted not to charge him for imposing martial law in 1981; in Warsaw...
Money was not always a problem for Sapir, who is 70 and lives in one room of a genteelly fading three-story house in Queens, New York. She was, she recalls, "a child of privilege" in Warsaw, where her father Jozef owned an investment bank. She and her brother and sister attended private schools, and the family traveled to the great European resorts for bathing in the summer and skiing in the winter. To ensure the family's future in uncertain times, Jozef Sapir regularly deposited his profits in banks in Switzerland, $30,000 to $40,000 at a time...
...World War II engulfed Europe. In the 50 years since then, nearly all the claimants have given up their efforts, stymied by unbending Swiss demands for documents and records that were simply unavailable after the carnage of war. Hannah Greenberg, for example, was only five when she fled the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, leaving her father behind. Now living in Scotland, she remembers he told her then, "There is a dowry for you in a Swiss bank." But, she says, "I have no documents...
DIED. PAUL ERDOS, 83, quirky Hungarian-American mathematician with more than 1,500 papers to his name; of a heart attack while living homeless, by choice; in Warsaw...