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- <text id=91TT1344>
- <title>
- June 17, 1991: Suddenly, It's Lonelier at the Top
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 17, 1991 The Gift Of Life
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- SUDDENLY, IT'S LONELIER AT THE TOP
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> U.S. government sources say Polish President LECH WALESA
- may have been forced to dismiss a trusted aide because of
- accusations that he was a KGB spy. Jacek Merkel, who quietly
- resigned in March as Minister of State in charge of defense and
- security, had worked closely with Walesa as a shipyard engineer
- and Solidarity leader. Merkel privately maintains that political
- enemies fabricated evidence against him, and is fighting to
- clear his name. The Interior Ministry has refused to release its
- police collaborator lists, compiled in the communist era,
- because the files may contain disinformation about people who
- had no relationship with the KGB.
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- </body></article>
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