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DATE: FRIDAY, October 15, 1993                   TAG: 9310150109
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WARSAW, POLAND                                LENGTH: Short

WALESA NAMES NEW POLISH PRIME MINISTER

President Lech Walesa, a staunch anti-Communist, reluctantly named a leftist farmers' party leader as the nation's new prime minister Thursday.

His appointment of Polish Peasants' Party chief Waldemar Pawlak opened the door for post-Communist Poland's first leftist government.

Walesa did not want to appoint a leftist government and had been expected to try to pass on that mission to Parliament. But he told a news conference he would not block the democratic process, and his spokesman later announced Pawlak's appointment. - Associated Press

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