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With Poland's economic crisis showing no signs of easing, the government of Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner resigned last week, the first time an entire Cabinet has stepped down since Communist rule began in 1945. A new government, possibly including lay Catholics and moderate opposition figures, is expected to be installed this week. One of its first jobs: conducting negotiations next month with the Solidarity trade union, outlawed since 1981, and its leader Lech Walesa. In his first interview since agreeing to the talks, Walesa met with TIME Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth W. Banta and reporter Gertraud Lessing...
Bush also planned to announce the formation of a national security advisory task force including former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security adviser...
...School's Reich. "There are many more suitors than jobs." Nor is there much reason to believe that the insiders of today will be on top come January. Outsiders can take heart from Hamilton Jordan's infamous anti-Establishment bon mot of the 1976 campaign: "If Cy Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski are in the Administration, then we have lost...
Authorities detained at least 200 people nationwide, according to Zbigniew Romaszewski, a spokesman for the outlawed Solidarity union. The violent protests came at the end of a week of strikes and the worst labor unrest in Poland since the communist government suspended Solidarity in December 1981 and later declared it illegal...
...Poland, because the referendum questions were so obliquely phrased, the future course of reform remains very much what authorities want to make it. At week's end Premier Zbigniew Messner announced that the price hikes, originally scheduled for 1988, would be phased in over the next three years. "The government is going ahead with economic reforms," said Letitia Rydjeski, a Vienna-based Poland analyst. "But it will be a tightrope act of introducing increases as high as possible without driving people out on the streets to react." Perhaps. But as last week's vote demonstrated, the streets may no longer...