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Article: '90s version of Polish Communist Party may prevail in Sunday election. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 18, 1993
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MILOSLAW, Poland _ The workers sit on folding chairs and listen obligingly as a candidate for parliament, an impeccably dressed woman who is a math professor at a nearby university, gives her pitch. ``It is our goal to share in a fair way and to rule in a fair way. ...
``We support privatization, but not at such a cost to people's lives,'' the candidate, Krystyna Lybacka, is saying.
Lybacka is a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, the party that grew out of Poland's once-despised communist regime. And as the workers nod their heads in agreement, there is little doubt that any reports of communism's demise in Poland are premature.
Not only are the communists ...