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...independent trade union federation. The occasion: a meeting of Solidarity's 107-member national commission. The task: to react to Walesa's announcement that he would join in an unprecedented tripartite summit meeting with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp. The meeting would consider the country's explosive political and economic plight...
...striking out at the Communist establishment. Like all Poles, they are obsessed with their history: of rising up against oppressive neighbors, only to be defeated and subjugated; like all Poles, they know that the Soviets could still intervene. A fortnight ago, the new primate of Poland, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, reminded his countrymen of the nearly 150 years of bondage they had endured after the partitions of the late 18th century. "This is a painful warning to us," he said. "We should think about it deeply." Solidarity's dilemma remains as formidable today as it was a year...
...liners in the Curia, who are unhappy with the freewheeling style of this Pope, hoped he would consider doing just that. But there are indications that John Paul has other things in mind. After lunching with the Pope several days before his operation, Poland's new Primate Jozef Glemp declared that John Paul will "almost certainly" be traveling next year. As it happens, next year Poland will be marking the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the nation's most venerated religious symbol, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, clearly a celebration the former Cardinal from Cracow would move...
...onetime laborer who earned two doctorates in Rome, Glemp has gained valuable experience negotiating with Communists on church-state relations...
...Glemp will be no Wyszynski. Prior to the appointment, Cracow's Father Andrzej Bardecki remarked that Wyszynski was "the unofficial dictator of the church, with prerogatives like no one else in the his tory of the church in Poland." But, while his successor is likely to be more collegial, the shrewd Wyszynski made sure that a well-prepared primate would still be in the thick of things...