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WARSAW, POLAND: The confusion over whether Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy had resigned ended today when Oleksy formally handed in his resignation to President Aleksander Kwansniewski. Oleksy quit amid accusations that he had passed classified documents to the Soviet Union from the early 1980s to March, 1995. In a televised speech Wednesday night, Oleksy said he was going step down to clear his name. TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw: "Oleksy's resignation does not mean the communists are losing power here. In fact, it is just the opposite. A recent poll, which was not conducted by the communists...
Poland has elected a new communist president, but he is not expected to take the country back to the old ways. Aleksander Kwansniewski, a 41-year-old former communist party minister, captured 51.7 percent of the vote in weekend elections, edging out President Lech Walesa, who drew 48.2 percent. "The real surprise is that Walesa was able to make this a race at all," TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw. "He was trailing badly as recently as six months ago, so his comeback is striking. Kwansniewski's victory shows that Polish people do not want the church interfering...
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