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WHEN A TRIUMPHANT LECH WALESA became President of Poland in 1990, European communism appeared to be finished for good. As police states dissolved, members by the millions tore up their party cards, and democratically elected parliaments in most of the newly free countries voted to bar communist parties from the political process...
...barely five years later, ex-communists have returned to power across much of Eastern Europe, and last week the mighty Walesa himself fell victim to the comrades' comeback. Aleksander Kwasniewski, 41, a minister in the last communist Polish government, defeated the old Solidarity war-horse in a runoff presidential election. Kwasniewski's Social Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish...
...privatization and market economics, and they are clamoring for membership in both NATO and the European Union. "Poland will never go back from the road of reform and democracy," Kwasniewski pledged, adding that he would move ahead with market reforms and continue the Western-oriented foreign policy established by Walesa. "I am prepared to bet that within five years Poland will be a member of NATO with Kwasniewski as President...
Poland has elected a new communist president, but he is not expected to take the country back to the old ways. Aleksander Kwansniewski, a 41-year-old former communist party minister, captured 51.7 percent of the vote in weekend elections, edging out President Lech Walesa, who drew 48.2 percent. "The real surprise is that Walesa was able to make this a race at all," TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw. "He was trailing badly as recently as six months ago, so his comeback is striking. Kwansniewski's victory shows that Polish people do not want the church interfering...
...LECH WALESA Polish leader under fire for his bland, belated response to an anti-Semitic ally...