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WORLD, Page 59World NotesPOLANDA Cabinet of Three Parts
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.
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.