The World - News from July 3, 1989

Solidarity legislators, avoiding an immediate confrontation with the Communist-led majority, decided not to put up a candidate for speaker of the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of Parliament, when it convenes Tuesday. The deputies, meeting over the weekend to discuss rules of the Sejm and the new Senate, nominated Andrzej Stelmachowski as speaker of the upper chamber. Stelmachowski, who served as mediator during government-Solidarity talks that led to the re-legalization of the trade union and partially free elections, is one of 98 Solidarity-backed deputies in the 100-member Senate.