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<text id=90TT1562>
<title>
June 18, 1990: World Notes:Revolutions
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 59
World Notes
REVOLUTIONS
Second Thoughts
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<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.
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