The World - News from Aug. 13, 1989
Polish Premier Czeslaw Kiszczak called for a meeting with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa to discuss the stalemate in Kiszczak’s efforts to name a Cabinet and the concerns it has raised in the Soviet Union. In an interview published by the official PAP news agency, Kiszczak said Poland “simply cannot afford a protracted impasse.” He also called on two Communist-aligned political parties that have begun negotiations with the Solidarity movement to remain loyal to the Communist Party. Walesa has been trying to forge alliances with the two minor parties, who hold the parliamentary balance of power, in order to form a Solidarity-led government.
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