Word: kania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against this background, the rise to power of a military man raised unsettling questions. Did it signal an imminent use of force? Did Jaruzelski's elevation mean the end of Kania's policy of seeking a peaceful accommodation with Solidarity? Was the Soviet-trained officer chosen to lay the groundwork for an eventual Soviet-Warsaw Pact military intervention...
...Jaruzelski appear bent on any radical departure from Kania's moderate policies, which he had publicly supported as Premier. Noted a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski believes the same thing Kania believed, that you have to deal with Solidarity." Nonetheless, Jaruzelski's party comrades clearly expected him to show more resolve than his predecessor in restoring discipline to the party, the economy and the public at large...
...provincial party meeting in Warsaw, Communist Party Leader Stanislaw Kania came under attack for showing excessive "submissiveness and liberalism...
...capital swirled with rumors that Kania would be replaced, he adopted an uncharacteristically hard line. "Solidarity, instead of becoming one of the forces for socialist renewal, is becoming one of its main brakes," he told a meeting of the 200-member Central Committee. Kania's tone did not bode well for the future of party-Solidarity cooperation. Nor did the union's latest threat. It will meet this week to decide whether to call for a nationwide warning strike...
...heating up with alarming ferocity. In its harshest warning to date to Poland's Communist leaders, Moscow last week declared that an "unbridled" campaign of "rabid propaganda" against the Soviet Union had been allowed to reach "dangerous limits" with impunity. Delivered personally to Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania by Soviet Ambassador Boris Aristov, the message called on Warsaw to take "radical steps" to curb the "malicious propaganda and actions hostile toward the Soviet Union...