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Despite those generous words, however, Washington's aid is largely symbolic and does not signal a new, comprehensive policy toward Eastern Europe. For example, Bush promised to push for reduced import duties on certain Polish products, but the goods covered under the President's pledge amount to as little as $3.5 million out of a total of more than $400 million in Polish exports to the U.S. And loans of some $500 million from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have yet to be approved...
...opposite danger, of course, would be to overestimate Poland's ability to institute Western-style reforms. Poland could become eligible for additional World Bank and IMF loans -- but only after implementing economic restrictions, including strict wage controls, that are bound to alienate Polish workers. At the moment, neither Jaruzelski nor Walesa can afford the political price tag attached to such a bargain...
Granted, Mlot-Mroz's politics are reprehensible. A self-described Polish freedom fighter, Mlot-Mroz--who is a frequent counter-demonstrator at Boston-area leftist protests--is little more than a thinly-veiled fascist...
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...
...months the parties negotiated over a 30-ft.-across round table for unprecedented political freedoms. "Why a 30-ft. table?" went a Polish joke making the rounds as the talks got under way. Answer: "Because the world spitting record is only 15 ft." In the end, however, the two sides managed to craft a new political order intended to save their country from economic ruin and social chaos...