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...possibilities. In October, Czechoslovak authorities seized 100 kg of cocaine hidden in a truckload of Colombian coffee. After the coffee was traced to a Polish ship that had stopped in Colombia, Polish police uncovered another 100 kg in the rest of the shipment, which was sitting in a Warsaw warehouse. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials speculate that the cartel hopes to take advantage of the legal chaos in the region to transship narcotics to West European customers. Last week FBI director William Sessions visited Warsaw to offer Polish officials help in modernizing their police system...
...could call him the John Sununu of Poland. He's a college dropout and part- time taxi driver who followed LECH WALESA out of the Gdansk shipyards to become his personal bodyguard and chauffeur. Today MIECZYSLAW WACHOWSKI is sitting pretty in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace running the President's private office. He apparently sees himself at the center of Walesa's inner circle of advisers, but his colleagues regard him as boorish, arrogant and power hungry. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, he has elbowed his way into so many official photo ops that local photographers delight in cropping...
...believe that many of our agents in the West were there because of a conviction that what we were doing was right, not because of money or blackmail. It would not be logical for the heads of the service to go free while those who believed in the Warsaw Pact and what we were doing went to prison. In the past, when agents were arrested, we tried to arrange exchanges for them, but suddenly this is no longer possible...
Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper, characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism...
...land-based tactical weapons were deployed primarily to deter a Soviet- led invasion of Western Europe by offsetting the Warsaw Pact's heavy superiority in troops, tanks and artillery pieces. The need for that U.S. arsenal disappeared with the Warsaw Pact itself. Today the only targets for the weapons are in areas that have become friendly (Poland, Czechoslovakia, what was formerly East Germany). European allies supposedly protected by the weapons -- in particular, West Germans, who are understandably nervous about living amid the world's heaviest concentration of nuclear weapons -- will be delighted to get rid of them...