Word: communist
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...congressional district during a quickie campaign stop. The $115 million offered to Poland, for example, would barely dent a decimal point in that nation's $39 billion foreign debt. Some of his European hosts were disappointed. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa pressed the case for $10 billion in assistance, and Communist Party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski asked for at least $3 billion in aid and a major rescheduling of Poland's debt. Hungarian banker and businessman Sandor Demjan, in a gesture that was at once magnanimous and a bit slighting (as well as rather amazing), told the New York Times that...
...make similar contributions to Poland and Hungary. The group agreed to hold a meeting in a few weeks to discuss both financial aid and support for reforms in the two countries, underscoring that the European Community is increasingly more able and eager to help guide potential changes in the Communist bloc. "Leadership in Europe on these questions belongs to the E.C., both by right and by their record of success," said investment banker Robert Hormats, a former top State Department official...
Instead, the government made clear it plans to continue rounding up anyone involved in the seven weeks of protests for freedom, democratic reform and cleaner government. A report in the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, said those who surrender will get lenient treatment...
...conservative New Democracy Party had just entered into a historic coalition with the Communist-led Alliance of the Left and was ready to start work. But when Cabinet members arrived at their offices last week, some found them stripped of files and equipment. Tzannis Tzannetakis, the new Prime Minister, was greeted by a single staffer, who told him, "Everything has been looked after, so there is no need for files...
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...