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...prompt Walesa to abuse the undefined presidential powers in the new constitution, which is still being drafted. During the campaign Walesa hinted he would rule by decree if necessary. For one of his campaign posters he used a photograph of himself closely modeled after a famous picture of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the hero who expelled the Soviet army from Poland in 1920 and became dictator after a coup d'etat...
...seems likely that historians will judge him more kindly than many of his contemporaries do. He may even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have to pass before Jaruzelski can be looked at by Poles in a completely objective way," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But time may work to his credit...
...that is more or less true, but there are some strange gaps in Miller's indictment. One is Poland, where most of the victims lived and most of the killing actually occurred, and where the poison of anti-Semitism was still visible last year in Jozef Cardinal Glemp's resistance to the removal of a Carmelite installation at Auschwitz. The other is Israel, which probably would not exist but for the Holocaust and which still tends to cite the 6 million dead as justification for whatever actions it undertakes...
...boost its own influence. In exchange, the reformist camp had to make three concessions. They allowed two hard-liners, Prague party leader Miroslav Stepan and trade-union boss Miroslav Zavadil, to keep their Politburo seats. The five Slovak members of the Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment of Karel Urbanek, a relative unknown, to the prime ministry. Presented with a fait accompli, Jakes reluctantly resigned, along with six of his Politburo allies...
Earlier this year Poland's Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, objected to an agreement among four of his fellow prelates and Jewish leaders to remove a Carmelite convent that had been established at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Although he later backed down, Glemp compounded the insult to Jews, charging "Your power lies in the mass media easily at your disposal...