The World - News from Sept. 5, 1989
The Polish Communist Party has asked for six posts in a Cabinet led by Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a senior Communist official said on a visit to West Germany. Slawomir Wiatr, the party’s central committee secretary for ideology, told journalists in Bonn that Solidarity should also have six ministries while two smaller parties would take the remaining six posts. In Warsaw, Solidarity officials said Mazowiecki will announce nominees for the East Bloc’s first non-Communist-led Cabinet this week. He has agreed to give the Communists the defense and interior ministries and also has offered the party the finance and economics ministries.
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