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...people, beatings, the internment of many thousands of people in prisons and camps." With those searing words, more than 100 prominent Polish intellectuals and artists last week denounced the martial law regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski in a petition sent to the nation's parliament and Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Roman Catholic primate...
That is the sort of pledge that Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Polish Primate, has publicly denounced as "unethical." Last week Pope John Paul II also attacked Warsaw's coercive use of loyalty oaths in a strongly worded speech from the Vatican. Said he: "The violation of conscience is a serious injury done to man. It is the most pitiful blow inflicted upon human dignity. It is in a certain sense worse than inflicting physical death...
...Glemp's sermon was one more dramatic indication that Jaruzelski was failing in his bid to impose national unity by force after four weeks of martial law. If his troops had managed to crush the last of the major strikes and restore outward order, the regime had won neither loyalty nor respect from the Polish people. A stubborn spirit of resistance still lived in the land (see box, following page...
...Catholic Church was exerting its traditional moral opposition to the crushing of human freedom. Yet the crisis was also causing friction within the church. Some Polish bishops and many of the clergy were pushing for a more militant role. Archbishop Glemp, anxious to keep the church above the political struggle and avoid inciting violence that might cause a Soviet invasion, was more cautious. But as last week's sermon showed, the primate was not afraid to issue moral condemnation when he felt the situation demanded strong words. Apparently stung by his criticism, Jaruzelski met with Glemp on Saturday...
Lech Walesa, meanwhile, was reportedly refusing to negotiate with authorities except in the presence of Glemp, Solidarity's three legal advisers and the entire union presidium. Walesa's wife is said to have visited him several times and to have confirmed that he is in good health and relaxed enough to joke with his guards about trying to escape. But he eats only the food that visitors bring him, fearing that he might be drugged by his captors. Denying widespread reports that Walesa had been sent to a monastery, Wieslaw Gornicki, a Jaruzelski adviser, last week stated that...