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...Jaruzelski meets the press...
...first time since the imposition of martial law in December 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week took his case directly to the world press. The government invited 122 editors, columnists and reporters from 26 nations who were in Warsaw attending an international conference of East bloc and Western journalists for an unusual evening question-and-answer session. Among the participants at the three-day meeting was TIME Associate Editor John Kohan, who filed this report...
There were also signs that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, whose government has arrested and charged four secret-police officers and suspended a general in the security forces in connection with the kidnaping, may be locked in a battle with hard-liners in the regime who may have staged the abduction to embarrass him. According to the Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu, Jaruzelski received a report on party efforts that would "further strengthen ideological unity" in the Interior Ministry, a sign that he was trying to marshal his forces against hardliners...
There was widespread speculation that the kidnaping and murder had been carefully planned by hard-liners to discredit Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. For many Poles the pieces of the puzzle seemed to fit together too neatly. Secret Police Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, the apparent ringleader of the kidnapers, was identified last week as an officer in the Interior Ministry section that monitors the activities of religious groups in Poland. His two lieutenants were recognized almost immediately by Popieluszko's driver, who had noticed the secret policemen following him before the kidnaping. Piotrowski and his conspirators apparently...
According to one theory, the secret-police officers schemed to kidnap Popieluszko in an effort to create a crisis and forestall a rumored plan by Jaruzelski to purge hardliners...