World IN BRIEF : POLAND : Promised Convent Begun at Auschwitz

Polish church officials honored a pledge to world Jewish leaders by laying the cornerstone of a convent to replace a controversial Carmelite nunnery at the Auschwitz death camp. The building, to be completed next year, is intended as a permanent home for the cloistered nuns whose convent under the walls of the Nazi death camp caused an uproar. If the nuns move in on schedule in October, 1992, they will ease a conflict that damaged Jewish-Catholic links worldwide. The new building is about 300 yards from the old convent beside the camp wall, which Jews denounce as an intrusion on the biggest Jewish graveyard in the world.