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<text id=89TT1847>
<title>
July 17, 1989: World Notes:Poland
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 69
World Notes
POLAND
Together, After All This Time
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<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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."
</p>
</body></article>
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