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...invasion, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated Washington's strong opposition to such a move in his meeting with Gromyko last week. Still, the Soviets were firmly pressuring their Polish comrades to crack down on the troublesome union just as Solidarity delegates were preparing to assemble in Gdansk for the second round of their national convention...
...Addressing a tense session of parliament, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski announced that special army units would join police to suppress "deepening anarchy, hooliganism, antistate and anti-Soviet excesses." He implied that force might be used unless Solidarity retreated from the boldly political demands it had adopted at the first Gdansk session two weeks earlier. That meeting had called for free democratic elections, worker control of industrial enterprises and-most provocative of all-the spread of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet-controlled East bloc...
...workers' councils. Each side would have a right to veto the other's appointments, with the courts acting as final arbiter. At week's end parliament passed a self-management bill almost identical to the Solidarity proposal, which was still subject to approval at the Gdansk convention...
...parliamentary vote appeared to strengthen the hand of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and his fellow moderates, who faced a crucial showdown with union radicals as the ten-day Gdansk session opened on Saturday. Solidarity Secretary Andrzej Celinski hailed the government measure as a "victory for the union." When a number of congress delegates grumbled during opening sessions that the legislation did not, go far enough, Solidarity spokesmen argued yet again that some compromise was necessary. Said one State Department analyst: "Basically, the government has said that if the moderates come through, we'll try it. If they...
Defending the union against charges that it is unnecessarily pushing confrontation with the government after it has gotten so much, Kabalinski said yesterday the Communist leadership has yet to fulfill many of its earlier promises. "If the [August, 1980 political reforms of the] Gdansk agreements were carried out, that would be enough," he said...