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- <text id=89TT2428>
- <title>
- Sep. 18, 1989: World Notes:Poland
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 59
- World Notes
- POLAND
- A Cabinet of Three Parts
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For two weeks the negotiating sessions stretched far into
- the night. Finally, Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki
- succeeded last week in producing an all but final list of
- Cabinet nominations that roughly conforms to his country's
- complicated political topography. The government will be
- dominated by Solidarity, but the Communists will continue to be
- represented with at least four posts.
- </p>
- <p> Mazowiecki gave the important post of Foreign Minister to
- Krzysztof Skubiszewski, an international-law professor and
- nominal independent with a pro-Solidarity background. His
- selection was evidently engineered by Poland's powerful Roman
- Catholic Church. Solidarity kept three key economic ministries,
- all of them to be filled with officials committed to free-market
- principles. As promised in a bid to reassure Moscow, the
- security offices of Defense and Interior will remain in the
- hands of the Communist incumbents. The most prestigious post
- awarded to the two smaller parties that provided Solidarity with
- crucial support in its bid for power was Justice Minister.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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