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- WORLD, Page 69World NotesPOLANDTogether, After All This Time
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- Sitting side by side last week as Poland's Senate
- reconvened for the first time since it was abolished in 1946
- were Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and Communist chief General
- Wojciech Jaruzelski. If their propinquity reflects the vast
- changes overtaking the country, so does the scheduled arrival
- of George Bush this week, paying the first U.S. presidential
- call in Warsaw in twelve years.
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- Although Jaruzelski has renounced his own election as head
- of state, it is he who will greet Bush, because the new mixed
- government has been unable to settle on a presidential choice.
- Bush said he planned "to inspire but not to incite" during his
- two-day visit. Yet last week in an interview with Polish
- journalists, he suggested that the Soviets unilaterally withdraw
- their 40,000 troops stationed on Polish soil; Soviet President
- Mikhail Gorbachev called the idea "propaganda." Bush has vaguer
- ideas about how to lend Poland more practical help, but aides
- warn that any U.S. plan won't be accompanied by a "potful of
- money."
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