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...Party Boss Stanislaw Kania's surprise visits to Prague and East Berlin last week. Party Bosses Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia and Erich Honecker of East Germany have been, along with the Soviets, the most bitter and vocal critics of Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain enough time to bring the Polish crisis solidly under control. Significantly, press coverage of Poland was muted throughout the East bloc last week. TASS even reported that the Jaruzelski government seemed to be restoring...
Polish authorities, however, later claimed that the catastrophic state of the economy made it impossible to eliminate Saturday work immediately. In an effort to head off a strike threat, Kama's government offered two compromise plans: a gradual move toward a five-day work week by 1985, or a work week consisting of five 8½-hour days. But Solidarity's national leadership, egged on by restive local chapters, rejected the half-loaf and unilaterally declared all Saturdays work-free. According to Solidarity officers, up to 85% of Poland's workers stayed at home...
Brady has no illusions about his new job. Says he: "There is more than the glamour and title. It's probably the toughest p.r. job in the world." His two deputies will be Kama Small, a television newscaster, and Larry Speakes, a veteran of President Ford's press office...
...Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), have lately been a moderating influence on the unions. Admits Pienkowska: "Some of us are radicals, but it often happens that after talking with Mr. Kuron we change our minds." Under other circumstances, the dissidents would be targeted for harassment or arrest by Kama's government, which needs to prove its toughness to Moscow. But the alliance between workers and dissidents, even if temporary, gives the dissidents a kind of protective coloration. "We won't allow for any crackdown, particularly on KOR," Walesa told TIME. "They are our friends and they...
While most Western experts remained skeptical about Kama's intentions, the Polish people appeared somewhat more optimistic about the prospects for economic and political reforms. Conscious of their new-found power, the workers felt they probably could meet any attempt by the government to renege on the basic concessions with renewed strikes. The implicit threat was not lost on the authorities. Said Tadeusz Fiszbach, party boss in the Gdansk area: "Only cooperation with the new unions will make our survival possible in a difficult situation...