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...WARSAW, POLAND: The confusion over whether Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy had resigned ended today when Oleksy formally handed in his resignation to President Aleksander Kwansniewski. Oleksy quit amid accusations that he had passed classified documents to the Soviet Union from the early 1980s to March, 1995. In a televised speech Wednesday night, Oleksy said he was going step down to clear his name. TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw: "Oleksy's resignation does not mean the communists are losing power here. In fact, it is just the opposite. A recent poll, which was not conducted by the communists...
...great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...
...elected his challenger, Alexander Kwasniewski, with 51.7% of the vote. A former communist, Kwasniewski, 41, campaigned as a pro-Western, reform-minded Social Democrat. Said he: "The divisions between those who are former communists and those who were with Solidarity are not so important outside the intellectual circles of Warsaw...
...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 in politics. Walesa had the active backing of the Catholic Church and it didn't generate great support for him. Walesa also...
...August 1, 1944, the Polish Underground resistance started fighting the Nazis on the streets of Warsaw. The city erupted in a valiant rebellion. But the rocks and slings of these modern-day Davids were no match for the armor of the German Goliath. The Soviet Red Army, parked only 10 miles from Warsaw, coldly watched thousands of Poles being slaughtered. The Western democracies were outraged and this became one of the prime pieces of evidence on the side of those who believed that the Soviets could not be trusted in the post-war world...