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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes saturday june 6, 1992farmer picked to Lead polish government Warsaw Poland apr president Lech Walesa on Friday nominated a 33-year-old peasant Leader As Poland a fourth Post communist prime minister. Walesa submitted the name of Walde Niar Pawlak Leader of the polish peasants party to parliament after a Marathon session ousted the 5-month-old government of prime minister Jan Olszewski. Pawlak would be the first prime minister since the 1989 toppling of the communists whose political roots Are not in the Solidarity movement. Parliament immediately began consid ering the nomination in caucus meetings. A vote was expected Friday along with the possible ratification of the 1992 National budget drawn up by the Olszewski government. The peasants party is the fourth largest in parliament and its withdrawal of support for the Olszewski government this week was key to bringing it Down. It is not Clear whether Pawlak can build a substantial coalition in the deeply fictionalized Assembly where the largest party has Only 13 percent of the seats. Olszewskie a failure to broaden a shaky minority coalition stalled key economic legislation delayed reforms added to the political instability seen As discouraging foreign investment and led to the fall of his government. Asked Why he selected the Young Farmer Walesa said a the Point is to reach agreement Between different groups expand Solidarity and strengthen  Walesa suggested a coalition with a strange political mix Pawlakos peasants party a strongly pro Reform bloc Lead by former prime minister Tadusz Mazo Wiecki and the rightist confederation for an Independent Poland. But even that grouping would not provide a certain majority in the parliament. However Pawlak would give a political voice to the increasingly restive Farmers hard hit by the end of socialist Price guarantees and subsidies. More than 40 percent of poles work in agriculture. Pawlak himself runs a 42-acre farm Northwest of Warsaw. The peasants party was Long Allied with the communists. But since 1989 it has changed its name and its philosophy strongly backing the transition to a Market Economy As Long As there Are protections for Farmers a controversial . Defector in institution May go Home Moscow up a a former employee of the . National Security Agency who defected to the soviet Union in 1962 has been found at a psychiatric Hospital outside Moscow where he has been confined since at least 1971. Victor Norris Hamilton now 75, was tracked Down last month at special Hospital no. 5 about 30 Miles Southwest of Moscow by a non profit group called the Ark project which searches for american pos in the former soviet Union. Hamilton a code analyst at the National Security Agency until he was dismissed in 1959 reportedly for psychiatric problems travelled from the United states to Prague Czechoslovakia to turn himself Over to soviet authorities in 1962. Ark project director Susan me Sinai told the English language Moscow times newspaper that she had met with Hamilton at the Hospital and he indicated he May want to return to the United states where his family still lives. A Victor cannot believe that his family is still alive and wants him Back a Mesiana told the Moscow times. A we need to help him accept the idea of leaving. Right now he in t Able to get on a  Mesiana said Ark is arranging special counselling for Hamilton to help him Deal with the possibility of leaving the institution. A russian television correspondent in the United Stales reported thursday night that he had tracked Down Hamiltons wife Lillian in a suburb of Atlanta and she was anxious to Sec him again after 30 years. A a it a very hard to imagine its also very sad a Lillian Hamilton said �?o1 want to meet him As soon As possible. I Hope that someone will help  the television report said Hamilton had been kept institutionalized by soviet authorities since shortly after he defected first in a special Kremlin Hospital and since 1971 at special Hospital no. 5, which was also used to isolate and imprison soviet dissidents. A spokeswoman at the russian foreign intelligence service the successor to the Kab said the Agency had no connection to the Case and therefore could not comment on the  situation chinese police keep a wary Eye on an associated press photographer Friday in Bering a Tiana men Square. The . And German embassies lodged complaints Friday after chinese police detained or beat 10 foreign reporters wednesday and thursday. The journalists were covering the third anniversary of the chinese governments violent crackdown on pro democracy rallies in Beijing on june 3-4,1989.ring linked to killing of e. German foes by the new York times Bonn Germany a German authorities have arrested 12 people on suspicion of operating a ring of criminals in former West Germany who killed hundreds of people there who opposed the communist government in the East. Alexander von Stahl Germany a Federal prosecutor said the arrests were part of a nationwide sweep made possible by new evidence showing for the first time that the former East German state Security police or Stasi maintained a network of hired West German criminals. Three of the people arrested this week were former Stasi officers. Government officials said the evidence was gleaned from Case files in the vast Stasi archives which were opened Jan. 2. The documents show the Stasi a hired West German criminals to carry out murder contracts in West Germany a said Hans Jirgen Forster a spokesman for the Federal prosecutors office in Karlsruhe. The rings crimes Date Back to the Early 1970s.Book claims Princess Diana tried suicide 6 years ago London apr Princess Diana in despair Over her marriage and convinced that her two sons were happier with their Nanny than with her took an overdose of pills six years ago the daily mail reported Friday. The aborted suicide bid a was never intended to be More than an agonized cry for help Quot Aee ording to unnamed a Palace insiders Quot quoted by columnist Nigel Dempster in a front Page report on a new biography of Diana. Buckingham Palace had Quot absolutely no comment at All Quot on Nicholas a is s Hook a triness and her troubled marriage or Dempster s article a spokeswoman said requesting customary anonymity. Davies was dismissed As foreign Edi Tor of the daily Mirror in november after allegations that he was involved in arms dealing. Davies referred to Diana a alleged suicide bid in his Book which is due to be published next month in the United states the daily mail said. The daily mail began publishing excerpts from Davies Book Friday two Davs ahead of the sunday Rimes plan to begin running sections from Andrew Morion s rival biography Diana her True Story. Diana married the heir to the British throne who is 12 years her senior in 1981. British tabloids have regularly reported that the marriage is unhappy. The couple have two sons Prince William 9, and Prince Harry 7. Dempster wrote that daily mail reporters who investigated Davies claims confirmed Diana now 30, had taken a drug overdose in 1986, a after a blazing Telephone Row with her  a she was convinced that Prince Charles no longer loved her and that her Small sons were happier spending time with their Nanny than with her. She was at her wits end and would often cry herself to sleep with frustration a the daily mail said. After taking a handful of paracetamol an aspirin substitute Diana Quot began to realize the enormity of what she had done a and made herself vomit the daily mail said. In rom her bed at Kensington Palace the Princess telephoned Charles who was at their country Home Highgrove and he ordered in a doctor immediately the newspaper said. A no serious damage was inflicted a it said. Diana was treated by a nervous disorders specialist and recovered but a the marriage has not been mended and the Gulf Between Diana and Prince Charles is arid and wide a the newspaper said. A the Princess has seriously contemplated divorce and investigated the possibilities by talking to a privy councillor but has now accepted that her position makes it impossible a the newspaper added. A she has told friends she is resigned to being locked into a Loveless marriage Quot  
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