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WORLD, Page 69World NotesPOLANDTogether, After All This Time
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.
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."