Top News Story August 17, 1989

In a history making occurrence marking part of the end of the Cold War and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Poland forms a government to control its parliament that is not communist. Ministers for police and defense must remain in communist control, however. Poland is still a Warsaw Pact nation under political influence from the Soviet Union and the reaction of the Soviet Union to this unfolding event is watched for carefully.

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