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Even as the Communist regime prosecuted its own ex-leaders, the party itself continued to crumble from within. Since the crackdown began, 4,000 party members in Warsaw alone have turned in their cards in protest. Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach, a leading liberal, resigned last week. Many others are likely to be expelled as the party executes what Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski called a "purge of opportunists, careerists and immoral people." Totally discredited in the eyes of the public, the party now has an estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized...
...Poland is run by an eight-or nine-man group under Jaruzelski's leadership. It includes four other army generals plus Politburo Members Barcikowski and Stefan Olszowski, a leading hardliner. Another prominent civilian member is Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, a liberal by party standards who nonetheless endorsed the crackdown...
...Gdansk on Dec. 13 when martial law was declared. He has watched General Jaruzelski try to subdue the country and has seen the Poles react and resist. Shortly after leaving Poland last week, Hornik filed this report on what life is like in Warsaw in the wake of the crackdown...
...immediate cause of Mugabe's crackdown was the explosion on Dec. 18 that ripped through the downtown Salisbury headquarters of his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-P.F.). Incredibly, no one in the office building was killed by the bomb, but seven bystanders died, and some 120 people were injured...
Mugabe has also vowed to impose a code of good conduct that would ban government officials and party leaders, most of whom are black, from owning farms or businesses. Still, his new crackdown has further alienated whites, who are already resentful of reforms aimed at improving the lot of the country's 7 million blacks. White Zimbabweans have endured heavy taxes to finance those reforms and watched as bastions of white privilege-notably the health-care and educational systems-were expanded to benefit blacks...