A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE
PNA STORY, 1980-2000

Part 2

October, 1989: President Moskal and a delegation of Polish American leaders travel to Warsaw to state Polonia's firm support for the aims of the newly formed Solidarity government and to meet with Poland's highest authorities. From left to right are former Congressman Roman Pucinski, PWAA President Helen Wójcik, PNA Treasurer Musielak, Myra Lenard of the Polish American Congress, PNA Controller Przypkowski, President Moskal, Jerzy Przyluski of the PAC, Józef Cardinal Glemp, Primate of Poland, PNA Director Paul Odrobina, PRCUA President Edward Dykla and the PAC's Eugene Rosypal.

President Moskal greets Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Chicago November, 1989.

March, 1990: Presidents Bush and Moskal discuss formal international recognition of the permanence of the newly democratic Poland's borders 
with the united German state.

PNA and PAC leadership winning Poland's entry into the NATO Alliance: 
the historic Milwaukee, Wisconsin "round table" meeting where 
U.S. policy on NATO enlargement changes, January 5, 1994.

Vice President Gore fills in for President Clinton in a speech in Milwaukee to 1,500 leaders the day after the round table talks January 6, 1994.

March 2, 1994: President Clinton and President Moskal in conversation at the White House meeting where Clinton declares himself in favor of NATO enlargement. PAC leader Jan Nowak (left) and PNA Director Donald Pienkos listen in.

May 21, 1998: President Clinton signs the NATO enlargement treaty. Among those present are Jerzy Kozminski Poland's Ambassador to the U.S. (second from left), U.S. Secretary of State Albright, Senator Mikulski of Maryland and Vice President Gore.

August 1992: An historic event, the first true World Congress of Polonia and Poles from Abroad is hosted in Kraków by Poland's new democratic government and its Wspólnota Polska [The Polish Community].