WORLD IN BRIEF : POLAND : Miners Boo Walesa, Demand Better Pay

Hundreds of angry miners demanding higher wages stormed onto the ground of the presidential palace in Warsaw and booed President Lech Walesa. Walesa, who rose to prominence as leader of the Solidarity labor union, gave no promises to the miners, who accused him of using slogans instead of giving straightforward answers. “I don’t have any possibility of doing it,” Walesa said when asked to grant their wage demands. The former Communist Union Federation OPZZ provided buses to bring miners to Warsaw from 40 mines around Katowice, the center of the coal-mining region in southwestern Poland.