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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, May 27, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes Flora Lewis Cafa Strophe in Poland continues unchecked the Story of Stefan Olsi Owski is so absurd it would be hilarious if the ruination that he and his comrades have visited on Poland were not so sad. Olszowski has taken up a quiet Middle class life in Queens new York City with his new wife Zola Skowron. Whom he married last month and their year old son Nicholas. That is the upshot of an open fight Wilh the polish Leader. Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski three years ago per Sonal As Well As political. A member of the polish politburo and foreign min ister at that time Olszowski was a rigid hard liner considered Moscow s favorite to Lake Over and crack Down on the restive poles until Mikhail Gorbachev reached Power in Moscow in 1985. According la polish sources he met Skowron at the , when he attended sessions As foreign minister and she covered them As a correspondent Tor the pol ish communist party s newspaper. They fell in love but his wife refused for some Lime to divorce. In the course of a politburo argument the Story goes in Warsaw Jaruzelski denounced you and your immoral life tools Rowski s face. The minister agreed to resign from the politburo but walked when the general repeated his charge of immoral ily in reporting the change to a Central com Milicic meeting. You with your aristocratic background and your Cal Holie education Don t you talk about immorality to me Olszowski shot Back. This is not a Catholic party this is a communist  he then used h is position to arrange a Job for Skow Ron at the Enesco office in new York and his Diplo Matic passport which he still retains to gel an Ameri Jim Fain can visa. Is reported in Warsaw that he has returned now Tor a visit considered sin ominous sign of hard liner preparation Tor the soviet party conference Al the end of june. Polsz Owsald to especially dose to Andrei Gromyko Long the soviet foreign minister who was kicked up stairs la be president by Gorbachev and who is still in the soviet politburo. Gromyko s name has t figured in recent Moscow report about challenges to Gorbachev but polish in siders consider him a heavy handed influence. Other polish hard Linen who had been shunted off in embassies have also been returning lately. Cushy diplomatic jobs have been the Way of dealing with them. The Best posts Are considered to be outer Mongolia Cuba and Albania where Gen. Wladyslaw Caslon is the charge. Caslon was the vice minister of Security believed to have ordered the murder of he Rev Jerzy Popieluszko the popular pro Solidarity print in 1984. Meanwhile the deterioration of Poland proceeds. There is no real Reform and no sign of any coherent plan for Reform. People Are no longer fright ened of the regime just miserable at the degradation of the country. A popular satirical song goo dear cod it is is a catastrophe. Please restore a half intelligent govern ment we had a Quarter then an eighth now we re Down to people with one thirty second of a  Bui the secret police Are everywhere watching in forming. They Are said to number 300,000, paid by secret funds hidden in the budgets of unlikely ministries. Al least some of the recent wave of strikes were believed to be hand liner provocations aimed Al Caus ing trouble for Jaruzelski and through him for Gorba Chev. The strikes also revealed a bitter Tough new Genera lion of worker who were schoolboys when Solidarity erupted on the scene in 1980. They Are angry militant who disdain the moderating advice at remaining leaders of the outlawed Union. Nonetheless Jaruzelski still refuses to Deal with those leaders and Poland is sinking Ever further in ill morass poles complain that Gorbachev s new thinking in foreign policy has focused on Afghanistan Angola Cuba Ethiopia areas that arc a dram on Moscow and a source of friction Wilh the Wesl. While he neglects what they be come to Call pc dams people s democracies in Europe. European hard liners Are said to be Mill under Gro Myko s Protection although the Success of a new More Reform minded hungarian Leader in ousting Janos Kadar last weekend May signal a reversal nothing would be More Likely to bring Gorbachev Down than a serious upheaval in Eastern Europe. Hit opponents would say thai was the result Oflarity in the Nami of Reform. But Losiowski s Saga inking refute in the . Albeit under . Protocol in tie name of love Doc seem to show that even the meanest communists have Points of vulnerability. It is funny to think of him plodding around Queens not the kind of change in the system s habits that i Likely to do anybody else any Good but another bit of change nonetheless in a Turk to Krak Bush Busy defining a new image for himself Washington iwo months ago was celebrating the landslide election of George Bush As president. On the basis of recent and largely meaningless polls it now forecasts with some alarm a Michael Dukakis Victory of similar scale alarm because Many parishioners revel in right Wing Reagan Chic and fear huh being invited to future White House egg Hunts William Safire offers hush an itemized rec pc for political recovery. Evans Anil to Jovak tender helpful tips. Gcorge will Wei i Wilh some shameless cynicism milking the drug Issue. The country is slightly deranged about drugs he wrote but this is a Campaign not a seminar so Bush should Sci a the Low ground by advocating arc lion of a drug cur. 1 Laving a Czar would do nothing to Salve the drug problem will admit cd but is a politically useful proposal because both de Meuse and the president oppose  few ii be Sec evil in such demagoguery. Flow Bush reacts to counsel from will is unclear. He was frosted a couple of years ago when the column1st labelled him a lapsing but has proven he can shuck almost any conviction that be comes inconvenient on economics for example not even Reagan now is entrenched in deeper voodoo. The prevailing theology is thai Bush suddenly must define himself. Washington docs not define define the Way Webster docs. Define in Beltway Jar gon Means creating an image Wilh voters Ini Ough television theater. Thus Ronald Reagan defined himself in a to de Bate with the hapless Bush by borrowing from an old movie script "1 paid for this  a Sunc bowl footballer defines himself by missing a pass in the end zone. To Intuit Iii he a piously such Nan sense is taken a Page one headline in the Washington Post read Bush at turning Point begins to define him  no kidding. A Man who has been in Public life for a generation is now Shar ing Wilh us the secret of who he really is. Soon doonesbury will be Able to Pencil features on this faceless Blob. Washington politicians Delight in their definition of  it gives them Hope of melting a tattered skin like a Snake and defining themselves a new one resident Witch doctors solemnly de Bate How Many Millimetres Bush distanced himself from Reagan last week with his plaintive please sir 1 Don t fully agree with you that we ought to bribe Noriega to leave Panama. The prevailing Wisdom almost sure to be re versed is that he defined himself a Gin Ger peachy Bunch. Unlikely. Most americans arc Post poning focusing on this unsightly Campaign As Long As they can. Then they la do the defining. Hush lacks Reagan s Talent for having it both ways. Either he was there when the administration do is Doc with no Riega and Khomeini or he dozed through the entire Reagan Raj. Four of his senior staffers told the Post he was willing to ice Noriega bought off until the Panama hug u i raising the Ante. Apparently he also embraced the stupidity of trying to run this Lin Horn off Wilh threats and Sun Lions until the dictator s laughter got Loo Mijoi Strous. The incoherence and weakness of Rea Gan foreign policy never have been More pitilessly exposed not even in Iran than in the panamanian debacle. By Cut Ling and running at the eleventh hour. Hush May find he has merely redefined him Las first Imp the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way id be considered As representing the views of the stare and Snipes or the United states Jot eminent. Men we re in Peep  
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