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...from Romania and 100 from Latvia, as well as about 1,200 from countries in Central America. The Multinational Division Central South will control - nominally, at least - 80,000 sq km and 3 million people in south-central Iraq. Will the force make a difference? The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza called it "Babel in Babylon." Common military doctrine, equipment, even a shared language in this disparate "coalition of the willing" won't be possible. The numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to the 150,000 troops already deployed by the Americans, and don't pack the wallop...
...Wojciech Mazowiecki, 38, business desk editor and news/managing editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland. Mazowiecki intends to explore issues surrounding freedom of expression, the right to privacy and the right to know...
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...
Dare, yes -- but succeed? Adam Michnik had his doubts. In his newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the longtime Solidarity adviser said he feared that his estranged former comrade, like the sorcerer's apprentice, had conjured up baleful forces that would have a life of their own. The campaign, Michnik wrote, had unveiled a "society filled with mental chaos, xenophobia and aggressive populism, and a longing for the strength of an iron hand...
...last week, however, details surfaced that contradicted some of Tyminski's accounts. He initially claimed that after leaving Poland, he did not return until last year. But the pro-Solidarity paper Gazeta Wyborcza cited government records that showed he visited the country seven times between 1980 and 1989 -- with the visa for each trip obtained from the Polish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Tyminski called the reports...