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...powerful men were natural rivals. One was the head of the officially atheistic regime of Poland, the other the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. So last week when General Wojciech Jaruzelski made his first official trip to Western Europe since he imposed martial law in 1981, his meeting with Pope John Paul II showed little promise of yielding substantive results...
...country's Communist Party Congress last summer, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski promised to set up a national "consultative council" of respected citizens to advise the government. The names of the council's 56 participants were released last week, but the roster was not as representative as some observers had hoped. The roll includes 17 Communist Party members but no top leaders of the outlawed trade union Solidarity; Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, 73, a lawyer who defended Solidarity members in several trials, is expected to serve as the group's representative. The Roman Catholic Church declined to nominate any delegates. Though exact...
There have been other clues that the government thinks the time is ripe for accommodation. At Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress last summer, Jaruzelski unveiled a plan for a national "consultative council" to advise the government on economic and social policy. The body is to include leaders of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church and politically moderate intellectuals. Two weeks ago, Premier Zbigniew Messner took the unprecedented step of withdrawing a piece of economic legislation from parliament for revisions after it had been publicly criticized as a blatant attempt by bureaucrats to undermine proposed economic reforms that Jaruzelski...
With the evident approval of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jaruzelski hopes to turn Poland's economy around by adopting the kind of quasi-capitalist reforms that have been introduced in Hungary since 1968. Among them: giving greater responsibility to factory managers, encouraging private enterprise to boost exports and consumer goods and services, creating wage incentives to improve productivity and reforming the tax system to stimulate investment. But the regime faces an uphill struggle. At every level, bureaucrats committed to centralized planning have for too long kept the country locked into a rigid economic system devoted to heavy industrial production...
Indeed, doubts persist about how genuine Jaruzelski's conciliatory gestures really are. Shortly after the September amnesty, Solidarity leaders gathered in Gdansk, the birthplace of the movement,to announce the formation of a Temporary Council of Solidarity. The organization's stated aim: to propose ways of cooperating with the regime in improving the economy and advancing political freedoms. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban denounced the organization as "yet another illegal body." In the new era of openness, Warsaw clearly does not intend to share power with anyone, particularly if his name is Walesa...