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- <title>
- July 16, 1990: World Notes:Poland
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 16, 1990 Twentysomething
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- POLAND
- Hard Times at The Top
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> For months trade union leader Lech Walesa has been accusing
- Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of too much haste in economic
- reform and too little urgency in ridding the government of
- onetime Communists. With his eye on the presidency, currently
- held by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Walesa has also been
- urging that elections scheduled for next spring be held
- earlier.
- </p>
- <p> Mazowiecki, whose refusal to accommodate the testy Nobel
- laureate caused a deep rift within Solidarity, last week went
- most of the way toward meeting Walesa's demands. In a major
- Cabinet reshuffle he dismissed three prominent former
- Communists and two other non-Solidarity ministers. The major
- casualties were Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak, who
- interned thousands of Solidarity activists during the
- martial-law crackdown in 1981, and Florian Siwicki, Defense
- Minister since 1983.
- </p>
- <p> Mazowiecki may be hoping that, by removing the issues, he
- can demonstrate that the trade unionist's presidential bid is
- firmly rooted in personal ambition. He might be hoping as well
- that, in return for a crack at the country's top job, Walesa
- will allow the government to get on with governing.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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