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U.S. Army vehicles cross the Polish border in Olszyna, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 heading for their new base in Zagan. First U.S. troops arrive in Zagan in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

‘We waited for decades’: Polish govt welcomes US troops

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

FILE - The Nov. 16 1982 file photo shows former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa with two of his eight children, including Przemyslaw, far right. On Friday the Walesa family buried Przemyslaw, who was found dead last Sunday in his home at the age of 43. Investigators ruled out foul play or suicide. Though the exact cause of death was not given, Przemyslaw had struggled with alcoholism. (AP Photo)

Lech Walesa attends funeral of son who battled alcoholism

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

U.S. Army vehicles cross the Polish border in Olszyna, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 heading for their new base in Zagan. First U.S. troops arrive in Zagan in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

US troops enter Poland, 1st deployment at Russia’s doorstep

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 file photo leader of the popular opposition party .Nowoczesna, Ryszard Petru, greets supporters after a televised parliamentary elections debate in Warsaw, Poland. Petru's party Modern is now facing questions about its credibility after he took a private foreign trip with a female party member at a time of a crucial protest in parliament, where his party is also participating. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland opposition leader slammed for vacation during crisis

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FILE - In this March 16, 2010 file photo bison are pictured at a reserve in the Bialowieza forest, in Bialowieza, eastern Poland. Environmentalists are protesting plans by the authorities to allow hunters to kill 10 bison in the Borecka forest saying the protected animals should be allowed to die of natural causes. Greenpeace had gathered well over 7,000 signatures by Monday afternoon, Jan. 2, 2017, on a letter asking Prime Minister Beata Szydlo to stop the plan. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

Environmentalists protest hunting bison plan in Poland

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FILE - This is a Nov. 11, 2016 file photo of a detailed view of Wayne Rooney's black armband with a poppy on during the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying, Group F match against Scotland at Wembley Stadium in London. FIFA on Monday Dec. 19, 2016 fined England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland soccer federations over display of political symbols. (Mike Egerton/PA, File via AP)

FIFA fines British federations for memorials at WCup matches

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A government opponent burns an effigy of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the powerful head of Poland's ruling conservative Law and Justice party before the parliament building in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, the 35th anniversary of the imposition of martial law clampdown. The man protests the ruling party's policy saying it does not protect families in trouble. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Large protests in Poland as leader vows to stifle opposition

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

In this file photo taken in Krakow, Poland, Oct. 30, 2015, filmmaker Roman Polanski talks to reporters after a Polish judge ruled that the Polish law forbids his extradition to the U.S., where in 1977 he pleaded guilty to having had sex with a minor. On Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who took office in November, has requested the Supreme Court to annul that ruling and allow for Polanski's extradition. Polanski is a French and Polish citizen. (AP Photo/Jarek Praszkiewicz)

Poland’s top court upholds refusal to extradite Polanski

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

2016 AP All-Ohio Division III team

By CRAIG MERZ - Associated Press

Violence at Romania-Poland football match, 2 hospitalized

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Princeton professor Jan Tomasz Gross speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. A Polish prosecutor has questioned Gross to try to determine if he committed the crime of publicly insulting the Polish nation with a statement on Polish violence against Jews during World War II. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland’s treatment of Holocaust scholar tests speech freedom

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Protesters raise hangers, symbolizing illegal abortion, as they shout slogans demonstrating against a possible tightening of the country’s abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Rallies in Warsaw and other cities are being held under the slogan “No to the Torture of Women” and come as the influential Roman Catholic church launches a campaign for a total ban on abortion, something supported by Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Strict law pushes Polish women to have abortions abroad

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Priest tells of his call, his dream of coming to America

By CHARMAINE SMITH-MILES - Associated Press

Protesters raise hangers, symbolizing illegal abortion, as they shout slogans demonstrating against a possible tightening of the country’s abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Rallies in Warsaw and other cities are being held under the slogan “No to the Torture of Women” and come as the influential Roman Catholic church launches a campaign for a total ban on abortion, something supported by Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poles stage new protests over proposed abortion restrictions

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

The urn holding the ashes of Poland's filmmaker Andrzej Wajda is placed for a farewell ceremony, in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. Wajda died in hospital on Oct. 9, at the age of 90. He will be laid to rest at Krakow's Salwator Cemetery where his mother is buried. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Hundreds mourn top filmmaker Andrzej Wajda in Poland

By CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 6, 2016 file photo, Poland’s former president and legendary Solidarity freedom movement founder Lech Walesa gestures during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at his office at the European Solidarity Center in Gdansk, Poland. The son of former Polish president Lech Walesa said Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, that his father, a longtime adversary of Poland's current leadership, is being stripped of state protection when he travels abroad. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File) **FILE**

Poland’s Lech Walesa loses state security protection abroad

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Protesters raise hangers, symbolizing illegal abortion, as they shout slogans demonstrating against a possible tightening of the country’s abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Rallies in Warsaw and other cities are being held under the slogan “No to the Torture of Women” and come as the influential Roman Catholic church launches a campaign for a total ban on abortion, something supported by Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poles protest ruling party chief’s anti-abortion proposal

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Poland party chief aims to outlaw Down syndrome abortions

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Polish official: French ‘learned to eat with a fork from us’

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