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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