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...politicians had their own Academy Awards, the statuette for cliff-hanger scenarios would certainly go to Poland. Last week the Sejm, the governing lower house of Parliament, tackled the task of electing a Prime Minister to head the new government. President Wojciech Jaruzelski chose Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics...
...Communist Party leader who declared martial law in 1981, made a startling announcement last Friday that he would not be a candidate in this week's election by Parliament for the powerful new office of President. Instead, with Solidarity's approval, the party is expected to nominate General Czeslaw Kiszczak, 63, the Interior Minister who won the confidence of the union as the government's main negotiator during the round-table talks that led to the democratic reforms. Moscow has invited Walesa to come for a visit to discuss the political situation...
...seats. Until these legal obstacles are resolved, the Parliament cannot fill the presidency, a powerful new post that was expected to go to party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among the defeated national-list candidates were some of Jaruzelski's most reform- minded allies, including Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak and Politburo member Jozef Czyrek. Their presence in Parliament was deemed crucial to forming a working relationship between the Communists and the opposition...
...closing a chapter in our history and opening another one," said Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak. Solidarity leader Walesa, who co-signed the pact with Kiszczak, went further: "I think this may be the beginning of democracy in Poland." But if that prophecy is to come true, Poland must reverse its disastrous economic decline, and the accord is weakest in its economic provisions. It includes only limited measures to advance productivity and a highly risky plan to index workers' wages. The Bush Administration is thinking of rewarding Poland for its moves toward liberalization by extending new credits, the first since martial...
...historic as the setting. In the glittering white ballroom of the 17th century Palace of the Council of Ministers, 57 people took seats at a massive table built especially for the occasion. Ranged around one side were negotiators for Poland's Communist government, led by the Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. On the other hunched the portly, moustached figure of Lech Walesa at the head of a 25-member team from the banned Solidarity trade union and other opposition groups...