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Article: A smile is there umbrella. (social conditions in Poland)
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- February 24, 1995
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"There is a crisis waiting to happen. The new world order will be worse than the cold war." I am watching an East European expert speak on a CNN report, sound-bite flawless. He is talking about Poland, specifically, because he is Polish and because President Bill Clinton is about to be visiting Warsaw in a few days--but he clearly implies a regional dilemma. I have heard these words before and always taken this man and his colleagues seriously.
Now I am not so sure.
Last summer I was in Warsaw watching his kind speak on CNN, looking out my window and seeing a very different Poland than the "crisis waiting to happen." I saw smiling faces.
I am not ...