Poland: Together, After All This Time

Together, After All This Time

Sitting side by side last week as Poland's Senate reconvened for the first time since it was abolished in 1946 were Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and Communist chief General Wojciech Jaruzelski. If their propinquity reflects the vast changes overtaking the country, so does the scheduled arrival of George Bush this week, paying the first U.S. presidential call in Warsaw in twelve years.

Although Jaruzelski has renounced his own election as head of state, it is he who will greet Bush, because the new mixed government has been unable to settle on a presidential choice. Bush said he planned "to inspire but...

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