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WORLD, Page 53World NotesPOLANDReluctant Choice
For almost six weeks after the parliamentary elections in
October, President Lech Walesa looked for another way out. Then
last week he grudgingly acquiesced to the will of the dominant
center-right coalition in the lower house and named Jan
Olszewski, 61, a lawyer with a long history of defending
dissidents to Communist rule, to the post of Prime Minister.
Walesa moved reluctantly because Olszewski favors
softening the radical anti-inflation policies that have been
hailed abroad for pushing Poland into a market economy but are
despised at home for causing 10% unemployment and threatening
the survival of hundreds of state-owned businesses. Figuring
that Poland had to bear economic pain in any case, Walesa has
generally supported moving to a free market as quickly as
possible. The choice may have been an effort to garner the
center-right's support for laws to strengthen presidential
powers, including more say in naming the Cabinet.