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- <text id=89TT1736>
- <title>
- July 03, 1989: World Notes:Poland
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 35
- World Notes
- POLAND
- Solidarity Cleans House
- </hdr><body>
- <p> If there were any doubts about the overwhelming rejection of
- the Communist party by Polish voters earlier this month, they
- were firmly dispelled last week. By the end of the second round
- of sparsely attended balloting, the Solidarity trade-union
- movement had confirmed its victory by winning 99 seats in the
- 100-member Senate and all 161 opposition seats in the 460-seat
- Sejm, the lower house, where 299 places had been set aside in
- advance for the Communist alliance.
- </p>
- <p> Although Communist party leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski
- has attempted to draw Solidarity into a coalition, the
- trade-union movement insists it will remain in opposition until
- completely free elections are held. Solidarity has agreed to
- cooperate on pressing matters such as economic reform, but
- seems unlikely to support Jaruzelski's candidacy for the newly
- created presidency. Solidarity is hoping that the Communist
- party will avoid a showdown on the presidency by nominating
- someone other than Jaruzelski. Said an aide to Lech Walesa:
- "There has to be someone they can put up who is acceptable to
- both sides."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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