WORLD IN BRIEF : POLAND : Must Be President, Walesa Says
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Lech Walesa said he must become president of Poland to preserve the country’s failed democracy and prevent his former allies in Solidarity from forming a dangerous power monopoly. The union leader challenged his former friends in Warsaw who now oppose him to start a separate center-left party and relinquish the Solidarity label.
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