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- <text id=90TT1562>
- <title>
- June 18, 1990: World Notes:Revolutions
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 59
- World Notes
- REVOLUTIONS
- Second Thoughts
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Tidying up after revolutions, even bloodless ones, can be
- messy. In Poland last week, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa
- attempted to fire Adam Michnik, editor in chief of the union's
- daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborca. Feeling increasingly left out
- of the government that he helped create, Walesa is seeking to
- become the country's President; his sacking of Michnik is seen
- as nothing but a vain attempt to show that he is still capable
- of exerting power. But Michnik refused to step down, telling
- Walesa: "You are slowly changing into a Caesar."
- </p>
- <p> In Czechoslovakia the government questioned five former
- Communist leaders, including General Secretary Milos Jakes,
- over their role in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of their
- country. But the move was taken on the eve of the country's
- first free elections since 1946, and thus was seen as a bit of
- cheap political opportunism by Civic Forum, President Vaclav
- Havel's ruling coalition and easy winner at the polls.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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