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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...
...editor in chief of the Soviet foreign affairs weekly New Times, Ignatenko, 48, has since taken many steps into that new era. Three months ago, for example, the magazine (circ. 600,000) published the first Soviet press interview ever with Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa...
General Wojciech Jaruzelski was striding through a hallway in Warsaw's parliament building last week when he came across a man he had not met in more than seven years. "So, our roads have finally crossed," said the chief of Poland's Communist Party. Replied Lech Walesa, leader of the country's Solidarity trade union: "I hope they will not part again...
Without that sea change in Moscow, it would be difficult to imagine the events of last week. There could hardly be more dramatic evidence of a break with the old thinking than the recent events in Poland. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa signing an agreement, smiling even, with Polish Communist officials. The union grew out of economic despair in 1980 and was crushed the next year by the imposition of martial law, one of the last ironfisted displays of Brezhnev-style authority...
...cafes, discovered the potential (and, yes, the frustrations) of private entrepreneurship; they have watched candidates debate on television and be asked whether they believe in God. And they have read articles brushing the dust off Trotsky, probing the demonic mind of Stalin and introducing them to the ideas of Lech Walesa...