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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...
When Abe Stolar left with his parents for the Soviet Union in 1931, his native West Side Chicago neighborhood babbled with Yiddish and Polish. Now Spanish fills the air around Humboldt Park, Murray F. Tuley High School has become Jose De Diego Academy, and the place where Stolar's home once stood is a vacant lot. But to Stolar, 77, back last week after 58 years in the U.S.S.R., it felt familiar. "It's wonderful," he said. "I feel 60 years younger...
...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 won't be accompanied by a "potful...
...Pledged to ask Congress for a $100 million"enterprise fund" to support Polish entrepreneurs.Moreover, he said he will ask other industrializeddemocracies to undertake similar initiatives atthis weekend's western economic summit meeting inParis...
Bush also squeezed in a short pitching sessionwith the Polish Little Leaguers. The well-attendedsession was designed to support the development ofAmerica's national pastime in this Europeancountry