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...Krzysztof Bien, economics editor of the Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita...
...that the former East bloc is no longer the enemy, U.S. intelligence is learning plenty about the other sideUs successes in turning Americans into traitors. Several onetime Warsaw Pact nations have opened espionage files to the U.S. According to FBI counterintelligence chief Wayne Gilbert, most of the suspected traitors identified are U.S. military personnel. Cases will begin going to grand juries in the coming months...
...Czechoslovakia and Poland, most households have CFC-based refrigerators and others badly want them. Neither country has put in place a system for recovering the coolants. Says an official at the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Warsaw: "If we are not able to solve the problem of disposal of used bottles, plastic items and batteries, what can we say about the proper disposal of refrigerators...
...satellites have provided the best way to peek at what the other side is doing. Gorbachev quipped that U.S. military satellites could read the license plates on Moscow cars. But bad weather can block the view from space: airplanes would be better. Members of NATO and the former WARSAW PACT countries are close to an unprecedented agreement to permit regular verification flights over one another's territory. Come in, O'Hare! Requesting permission to land. I'm out of film...
...church to the point that Mary's statues have been removed from some sanctuaries and Catholic parishes have gradually reduced the traditional novena devotions to the Virgin. John Paul clearly thinks the reconsideration went too far, and his fellow venerators of Mary agree. In Eastern Europe, says Warsaw priest Roman Indrzejczyk, enthusiasm for Mary is no less than a "a reaction to the matter-of-fact religiousness of the West...