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...chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw. "He's just trying to demonstrate that the ruling people haven't yet solved the problem of former presidents and their pensions. He will pretend to work because he wants to attract attention." Kucharski points out that the situation is mostly Walesa's fault. "During his five years in office...
Brinton will go to the Ukraine, Ross heads off to London, Gallafent to Geneva and Rich to Warsaw. The other four have yet to be informed of their destinations...
...chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw. "He's just trying to demonstrate that the ruling people haven't yet solved the problem of former presidents and their pensions. He will pretend to work because he wants to attract attention." Kucharski points out that the situation is mostly Walesa's fault. "During his five years in office...
...chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw. "He's just trying to demonstrate that the ruling people haven't yet solved the problem of former presidents and their pensions. He will pretend to work because he wants to attract attention." Kucharski points out that the situation is mostly Walesa's fault. "During his five years in office...
DIED. KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, 54, master Polish filmmaker; after heart-bypass surgery; in Warsaw. An Oscar nominee last year for Red, he made daunting, haunting studies of passion and alienation on the grand scale, as in his 10-hour Decalogue, which dramatizes the Ten Commandments in a Warsaw high-rise, and his Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red), in which troubled souls in France, Poland and Switzerland come to terms with a dark obsession. In 1994 Kieslowski said he was quitting films; he just wanted "to sit alone in a room and smoke." He left behind some of the most elegant...