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...near the Palace of Culture on opening day: "It's hard to be enthusiastic. Society's expectations have been disappointed so many times before." Yet the delegates approached their task with a sense of mission and hope rarely seen in the Eastern bloc these days. Explained Delegate Jozef Gajewicz, the mayor of Cracow: "A great explosion of democracy brought the delegates here. They have come to fight for what they believe...
Poland's powerful Catholic Church has also played a key role in the national renewal. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, named last week to succeed the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski as Primate (see RELIGION), promised to continue the Cardinal's policies. But, though the church has won some important concessions, such as the right to broadcast Sunday Mass, some clerics fear that its influence as a unique voice of Polish nationalism may diminish with the rise of political pluralism...
...government newspaper declared that the new man "enjoys the sincere and warm approval of the state." The subject of all this attention was a short, stout farmer's son named Jozef Glemp, who was named Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and Roman Catholic Primate of Poland. "I want peace and unity for the whole nation," he promptly declared...
Finally, the Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...
Jaruzelski, 57, had replaced the ineffectual Jozef Pinkowski three days earlier at a stormy meeting of the Communist Party's 140-member Central Committee. He thus became the only military man to head a Soviet-bloc government. More important, his accession marked the fourth major leadership shake-up since the eruption of labor unrest last summer and, in the opinion of many fretful Poles and foreigners alike, perhaps the last opportunity for the Warsaw authorities to restore order peacefully...