Sunday, April 11, 2010

Poland Mourns For Its President



Poland Mourns Death Of President, Other Top Officials In Plane Crash -- Washington Post

WARSAW -- Thousands of Poles streamed by the presidential palace in central Warsaw Sunday in a second day of national mourning for President Lech Kaczynski and a delegation of senior officials who were killed when the presidential jet crashed in heavy fog on approach to an airfield in western Russia.

The Saturday morning crash, which officials said killed all 97 people on board, including the president's wife, generated what participants described as a spontaneous outpouring of support, not necessarily for Kaczynski's nationalist politics or his party, but for the office of the presidency and the military officers, lawmakers and civil servants who were killed alongside him in the service of the Polish nation.

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More News On The Death Of The Polish President

Poland Feels Shock at the Size of Its Loss -- New York Times
Poles go silent to mourn crash deaths -- AP
Silence across Poland for tragic air crash president -- ABC News (Australia)
Poland plunged into grief by death of president -- Yahoo News/AFP
Poland Mourns President -- Voice of America
Poland holds tribute for dead President Lech Kaczynski -- BBC
Polish president dies in plane crash after pilot ignored warning not to land -- Times Online
A nation in mourning: Investigation begins into plane crash that killed Poland's president and dozens of country's ruling elite -- Daily Mail Online
Poles mourn, await president's coffin after crash -- Yahoo News/Reuters

For Poland, plane crash in Russia rips open old wounds -- L.A. Times
Plane Crash May Strain Poland’s Ties With Russia -- New York Times
Kaczynski Often a Source of Tension Within E.U. -- New York Times
The Polish tragedy is a terrible loss for the West, too -- James Corum, The Telegraph
The Polish Aircrash is a tragedy, not a disaster -- Times Online editorial

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