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...days before the voting, easterners were griping as well about a kind of democracy fatigue. Sunday was the fourth time they were going to the polls since March, when East Germany elected its first post-Communist parliament. In Brandenburg some said they were tired of campaigns and elections; others that they felt their votes, amid millions of ballots, counted for nothing. In an open-air market run by unemployed workers, one woman, retaining the old reluctance to give her name, dismissed any worry about absenteeism. Casting an eye backward in time, she said, "Of course they'll vote...
...shield against forced self-incrimination may have been violated. North had testified at the congressional hearings under a grant of partial immunity, meaning Walsh could not use information from North's public testimony in the criminal case unless he had obtained the evidence independently. By a 2-to-1 vote, the appeals panel ruled that the trial judge's scrutiny of this issue had been insufficient. In a dissent, Judge Patricia Wald said the decision would "make the prosecution's burden an impossible one." Poindexter, North's boss at the White House, also testified under an immunity grant...
...virtually unknown when he launched his campaign three months ago, Tyminski took second place in a six-man presidential race that was supposed to be a contest between Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and his onetime colleague, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Walesa needed more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff. He won just under 40%, with 23% going to Tyminski and 18% to Mazowiecki. Now the still mysterious Tyminski will face Walesa alone...
Walesa is still the favorite in next week's vote, but a victory could turn out to be a mixed blessing for him and for Poland. "Walesa can't produce an economic miracle, and that's exactly what the people expect," says Stanislaw Stomma, a member of the Polish Senate. "Tadeusz got used up, and now it's Walesa's turn." Some fear that the difficulty of delivering on people's hopes for economic revival will eventually prompt Walesa to abuse the undefined presidential powers in the new constitution, which is still being drafted. During the campaign Walesa hinted...
Faced with this battle between two former friends, many voters saw in Tyminski, 42, a new face and a successful businessman who seemed to embody their hopes for prosperity. NEITHER ONE NOR THE OTHER, read Tyminski's campaign posters. "People didn't vote for a Western millionaire," says Piotr Aleksandrowicz, deputy chief editor of the Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita. "They voted against the Establishment and for their own dreams." But it was Tyminski who got their votes, running especially well among younger and rural voters and in areas like the coal-mining city of Katowice, hit hard by the government...