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Jaruzelski was replaced by outgoing Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who was elected by a Central Committee secret ballot, 171 to 41. In his acceptance speech, Rakowski proposed an unspecified reshuffling of the party's top leadership and declared, "I believe I will have the support of all party members who drew conclusions from the failure of the last elections. I would like to change this unfavorable situation into a favorable...
Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski told Bush the speech "contained many thoughts permeated with realism." But Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski said his nation was not looking for "a rain of gold...
...filling the vacant seats. Until these legal obstacles are resolved, the Parliament cannot fill the presidency, a powerful new post that was expected to go to party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among the defeated national-list candidates were some of Jaruzelski's most reform- minded allies, including Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak and Politburo member Jozef Czyrek. Their presence in Parliament was deemed crucial to forming a working relationship between the Communists and the opposition...
...government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski permit the debate? One answer was that the authorities hoped Walesa would appear rambling and incoherent under the eye of the camera -- as he sometimes is in impromptu discussions. They were wrong...
...Walesa, receiving a rousing welcome from thousands of Poles chanting "Solidarnosc! Solidarnosc!" "You have achieved so much," she told Walesa and other Solidarity officials after lunch at St. Brigid's presbytery. Polish intellectuals pointed out a crucial difference between Thatcher's efforts to rein in British trade unions and Rakowski's confrontation with Solidarity. Unlike Poland's government, said Stanislaw Gebethner, a political science professor at the University of Warsaw, "Mrs. Thatcher carries legitimate power through democratic elections...