Word: kania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glass-fronted Palace of Congresses, attracted 5,002 delegates from around the U.S.S.R., plus representatives from 109 countries. It gave delegates the chance to ogle a host of Communist luminaries on the dais, from Cuban President Fidel Castro to Vietnamese Party Leader Le Duan and Polish Party Chief Stanislaw Kania...
...abandon fraternal socialist Poland in its hour of need." As Western analysts saw it, Brezhnev was keeping his options open: he had decided not to invade Poland for the moment, but had not ruled out such possible "fraternal" aid in the future. The next day, Polish Party Boss Kania emphasized, almost pleadingly it seemed, that the Poles could solve their own problems. The Polish party chose "a political solution of the social conflict," he explained, because the split between the people and the government would have broken wide open and the situation would have been worse...
Warsaw's leaders must now convince their Soviet-bloc allies that they have not bought labor peace at the expense of the party's power monopoly. That was the apparent aim of 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...
...Kania's breathing space may be shortlived. As one Western diplomat noted, the easing of external pressure on Warsaw could well be due only "to a desire for peace and quiet within the East bloc during the upcoming Soviet Party Congress in Moscow." In presiding over that nine-day Communist extravaganza, which begins this week, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev will want to paint Moscow's empire in the most favorable light possible; thus the timing of Poland's apparent labor truce works to the Kremlin's advantage. But when Kania returns from Moscow, his ears...
Jaruzelski has won a reputation as both a fervent Polish patriot and an unshakable party loyalist. In introducing him to parliament last week, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania said: "Now as black clouds hang over Poland, he is the best man to whom the helm could be offered." Perhaps. But those clouds will sorely test his capacity for reconciling the conflicts between his nation and his ideology...