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- WORLD, Page 76World NotesPOLANDBye-Bye, Stanislaw
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- With about 60 parties fielding candidates, the run-up to
- Poland's first truly independent parliamentary elections next
- weekend has been chaotic. But at least emigre businessman
- Stanislaw Tyminski, founder of Party X, won't be there to kick
- the electorate around anymore. Earlier this month he flew home
- to Canada, disheartened because Party X, which claims 4 million
- supporters, was denied a place on the national ballot on account
- of signatures on its qualifying petitions that were discovered
- to be false.
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- Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and
- obsessive anti-Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His
- special enemy is ex-Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in
- chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months
- ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The
- next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper,
- characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political
- role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their
- economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism
- in 1989.
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