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Party stewards counted the votes once, then tallied them three more times. When the result was finally announced to the 544 Deputies in the hushed Parliament last week, the reason for all the counting became clear. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the leader of Poland's Communist Party, had won the country's presidency with just a single vote to spare...
...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 he would match...
When General Wojciech Jaruzelski had spoken and returned to his seat beside George Bush in the Polish Parliament, Bush reached over and patted the Communist boss's forearm. A little later, clustered with some newly chartered Polish Little Leaguers, he scooped up the grinning kids and pulled them close for the ritual team picture...
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 not to incite" during his two-day visit. Yet last week in an interview with Polish journalists, he suggested that the Soviets unilaterally withdraw their 40,000 troops stationed on Polish soil; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called the idea "propaganda." Bush has vaguer ideas about how to lend Poland more practical help, but aides warn that any U.S. plan...