WORLD IN BRIEF : POLAND : More Aid Requested to Help on Debt Cost
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki said Poland is unable to pay the interest on its $42-billion foreign debt and called on the West, including the United States, to help Warsaw’s bold reforms with extra aid for the next two years. Mazowiecki said Poland made substantial progress last year, with inflation dropping from 80% in January to 4% in November. “We are closer to a market economy,” he said. But he said Poles paid a high price, with drops in production and wages, and higher unemployment.
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