Word: stanislaw
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Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw are co-authors of The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World...
Blue Helmets in Lebanon reserved their strongest criticism for the shelling of Qana. Polish General Stanislaw Wozniak, commander of the U.N. force, rejected Peres' claim that army units "weren't aware that there were civilians" at the Fijian camp. "They knew we were sheltering civilians in this U.N. post," Wozniak said. "Simply, you don't attack civilians. You don't attack U.N. positions." U.N. officials insist Israel realized that some 5,000 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks at several peacekeeping posts. "I don't want to believe it was deliberate," Captain Lindvall said of the slaughter...
...five black-robed nuns who cook his meals and do his laundry are members of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is based in Cracow. More important, one of the Pope's two secretaries -- and the one who controls all access to his boss -- is Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, 55, also of Cracow. (The other secretary is not Italian, as one might expect, but ( Vietnamese, Monsignor Vincent Tran Ngoc...
...friend nor foe -- comes to the Holy Father save through the humble monsignor. Says a close papal aide: "Whoever the Pope is, he's going to be someone who feels very much alone. You need someone by your side, a kind of soul mate, and that's what Don Stanislaw...
...Polish emigres to France (his mother would die in Auschwitz). Abandoning his original name, Aaron, he adopted Catholicism as a teenager, a move that hurt his parents terribly. Lustiger is a trusted confidant of John Paul's; when he first visited the Pope, John Paul's secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, grabbed the Frenchman's arm and told him, "Remember, you are the fruit of the prayers of the Pope. The Pope prayed long and hard over his choice...