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DATE: Wednesday, July 10, 1996              TAG: 9607100406
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POLISH PRESIDENT VISITS THEODORE ROOSEVELT

ILLUSTRATION: GARY C. KNAPP photos\ The Virginian-Pilot

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland's president, visited NATO's Allied

Command Atlantic headquarters in Norfolk Tuesday as part of his

visit to the United States. Poland, along with other former

Soviet-bloc nations, is asking to join the international alliance.

In the photo above, Kwasniewski, left, is accompanied by Marine Gen.

John J. Sheehan. At left, the Polish president tours the aircraft

carrier Theodore Roosevelt before a flag-raising ceremony. by CNB