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...that took place within miles of each other last week. In the cavernous Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, 1,776 delegates attending Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...
...advance about the Warsaw regime's plans to impose martial law in December 1981, but according to Polish Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, failed to do everything in its power to prevent the imposition. Solidarity's dwindling band of sympathizers warily concluded last week that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski was hell-bent on a new campaign to intimidate and demoralize the opposition before the Tenth Polish Communist Party Congress opens in Warsaw at the end of the month...
According to the Post article, the Reagan Administration had been informed of Jaruzelski's plans for a military crackdown fully a month before martial law was imposed. The Administration's alleged source was Colonel Wladyslaw Kuklinski, a senior Polish staff officer who was on the payroll of the CIA. Urban told the Post that the U.S. could have prevented the subsequent arrests and internments by warning Solidarity of the imminent government action. He also charged that by remaining silent, the U.S. demonstrated that it had no interest in averting a "bloody conflict" in Poland. Urban demanded that the Post confront...
...Urban hoped to undermine the credibility of the Reagan Administration, his plan backfired. Many Poles, who commonly refer to the President as "Uncle Reagan," directed their anger at the Jaruzelski regime. Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa told reporters that Urban's statements contradicted the Polish regime's previous accounts of the martial-law decision. At the time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated...
Poland is the only East bloc country where a succession seems unlikely to take place in the near future. General Wojciech Jaruzelski had to prove himself to Gorbachev, who at first was skeptical about the military man's ability to run that troubled country. But Jaruzelski demonstrated that he could control the opposition Solidarity trade union, and Gorbachev openly praised his leadership at the Soviet party congress in February...