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Jozef Slisz, the leader of Rural Solidarity and deputy speaker of the Senate, was among other opposition officials who met with Jaruzelski. He said the President explained he could not allow Solidarity to form a government, because several of Poland's East bloc neighbors would "look at this askance." Specifically, Jaruzelski mentioned East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union...
Later in the week the President took the extraordinary step of announcing his resignation as party leader, a position he has held since 1981, when he took power largely to crack down on Solidarity. Jaruzelski also withdrew from the Politburo and the Central Committee, reportedly so that he can concentrate all his energy on the presidency...
...Jaruzelski was replaced by outgoing Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who was elected by a Central Committee secret ballot, 171 to 41. In his acceptance speech, Rakowski proposed an unspecified reshuffling of the party's top leadership and declared, "I believe I will have the support of all party members who drew conclusions from the failure of the last elections. I would like to change this unfavorable situation into a favorable...
...Jaruzelski was expected to name Rakowski's replacement as Prime Minister this week. The government leader's most immediate project will be the lifting of a month-long wage and price freeze and the introduction of free-market prices for foodstuffs, measures that are also expected this week. The price plan, which was drawn up by Rakowski himself, met with strong opposition from the Communist Party, and with some reason. Over the past 20 years, food-price increases have triggered strikes, demonstrations and, in 1980, the formation of Solidarity...
There is some indication that Bush's visit to Eastern Europe last month helped resolve the deadlock over the Polish presidency; General Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed to run and narrowly won with the tolerance of Solidarity's Lech Walesa. The diplomatic and intelligence assessments of the President's personal diplomacy have generally been good, emphasizing that a network embracing Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow is a going concern...