Hurry up
A VISIT by Pope John Paul II to his native country, due at the end of May, has prodded Poland's parliament into putting the final touches to a constitution that has been in the offing for some eight years. Poles are now set to give their verdict in a referendum just six days before the pope arrives. All being well, the document should go some way towards healing the brutal divisions between those Poles who went along with half a century of Soviet-imposed communism and those who fought it tooth and nail. But a lot could still go wrong.
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