Word: leaders
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...country's ethnic diversity, the main target is the National League for Democracy, the first organized, broad-based movement dedicated to democratic reform since Ne Win came to power in a 1962 military coup. In recent weeks, hundreds in the N.L.D.'s upper echelons have been jailed. Its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest, where she began a hunger strike on July 20 that reportedly ended just last week...
Malinowski, 54, trained as an economist, has been leader of the Peasant Party since 1981 and in the previous term of the parliament served as speaker of the Sejm...
Kiszczak said he had been trying to assemble a cabinet, but Walesa's proposal "complicates and prolongs the process." He also said the Walesa proposal indicated the Solidarity leader's negative attitude toward any form of coalition government had eased, creating "new chances" for the "grand coalition" which he and the Communist Party have long advocated. For this reason, he said, he viewed Malinowski as having a chance for forming such a coalition government...
However, Aleksander Bentkowski, the Peasant Party parliamentary caucus leader, said he was not sure that Malinowski would accept the nomination because of the slim chances of successfully forming a coalition with Solidarity...
Solidarity's parliament leader, BronislawGeremek, had no comment. Walesa was unavailablefor comment, his mother-in-law said