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When he was campaigning for President, Lech Walesa promised to give every citizen a slice of the country's wealth. Last week his government took a giant step toward fulfilling that pledge when Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki announced that Warsaw will effectively make every one of the country's 27 million adult citizens a shareholder in Poland...
...biggest loss for Slovakia's arms plants has been in exports to Warsaw Pact countries. Sales to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia's biggest customer, plummeted by 40% last year, and are falling off even more steeply this year...
When Pope John Paul II last toured Poland in 1987, he was greeted by cheering throngs eager to demonstrate both the depth of their Roman Catholic faith and their contempt for the communist regime in Warsaw. Last week John Paul paid his first visit to his homeland since the collapse of communist rule. This time the crowds were smaller and more muted, while the Pope's message was aimed not at repression but at the danger of unchecked freedom...
...Soviet-led invasion of Western Europe. But the dragon that breathed genuine fire for so many years is slinking back into its cave. As many as a million troops that were once available -- at least on paper -- to mount a communist blitzkrieg are melting away. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact two months ago removed some 500,000 soldiers of Moscow's former allies in Eastern Europe from even theoretical Kremlin control. Another 500,000 Soviet troops are being pulled back within the borders of the U.S.S.R...
...number of state development offices abroad, which function almost like consulates, has doubled in the past five years, to 160. Illinois has more foreign offices than many small nations; it has outposts in Moscow, Shenyang, Brussels, Warsaw, Budapest, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong and Osaka. No fewer than 38 states -- plus San Bernardino, Calif., and Houston -- maintain offices in Tokyo...