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Polish archbishop Jozef Glemp issued a communique Tuesday attacking the "numerous excesses" perpetrated against striking workers, intellectuals and students. "Our suffering is that of the entire nation terrorized by military force," Glemp said...
...more difficult for Solidarity to support the proposal for a "front of national agreement" that had been put forward a month ago by the Premier and party chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The plan, which had been endorsed in part by Walesa and the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, would have established a permanent legal forum for negotiations between Poland's contending forces...
...Walesa, Jaruzelski and Cardinal Glemp hold an unprecedented "domestic summit" in hopes of paving the way for a broad front of national accord to solve the nation's problems...
...unity." Jozef Dudek, another radical from southern Poland, declared that sending Walesa to the summit talk was tantamount to "letting a single individual represent 10 million people." At that remark, Walesa snapped back. Said he: "I will represent 10 million members, Jaruzelski will represent the government, and Primate Glemp will represent the church...
There was no reply. Walesa stalked out of the meeting to his car and sped 170 miles to Archbishop Glemp's residence in Warsaw, where the pair had a long talk before going to see Jaruzelski...