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...such sweeping changes, the Communist Party must secure the cooperation not only of Solidarity but of its own allies as well. However, as last week's threatened defection by the Peasants demonstrated, there is growing impatience with the compromise implicit in the round-table agreement. Observed the Solidarity daily Gazeta Wyborcza in an editorial: "Society does not understand why the new Cabinet, which would like to call itself a government of national salvation, should be headed by a representative of a party responsible for creating the situation from which society must be saved...
...When the Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette) hit the newsstands in Warsaw last week, the paper not only had the day's hottest story, it was the story. The first Solidarity daily ever to be published legally in Poland, the Gazeta ran a large portrait of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and an account of his meeting with Jozef Cardinal Glemp. The edition also carried six pages profiling the union's candidates in next month's parliamentary elections...
Because of a technical glitch, only 150,000 copies of the first few issues rolled off the presses, but the projected circulation is 500,000. Under the agreement reached during the round-table talks between union and government leaders last month, the paper, rechristened Gazeta Codzienna (Daily Gazette), will continue to be published after the election. While the editors have announced their intention to "present views and opinions of the whole independent society," the Gazeta will no doubt always have a favorite subject. The paper's motto: "There is no freedom without Solidarity...
...traveling to such a provincial and undeveloped place. "There's a Russian saying: the Tambov wolf is your comrade." I remembered his sneering tone as I stared at the flat landscape from the two- bunk compartment I was sharing with Yuri Shchekochikhin, a commentator from the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta. So, you are heading off into the wilds of Russia? See for yourself how far the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have gone. An image came to mind of perestroika as a stalled tractor, sinking ever deeper into the rich black earth of the Tambov region. It was a common Moscow...
Skeptics are not so confident. They say schools cannot lead the way to reform, they can only reflect society, not shape it. Some of the harshest criticism comes from Uchitelskaya Gazeta, a pro-reform teachers' newspaper that regularly berates the State Committee for Public Education and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Those two mammoth bureaucracies oversee the nation's school system and train its 4 million teachers. Reformers believe that both block educators eager to try more innovative methods...