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...first items on their agenda will be the election of party leaders. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania seems likely to keep his job. His personal prestige surged following an unsuccessful hard-line challenge to his leadership last month after the Kremlin sent him an ominous letter criticizing his failure to deal effectively with "counterrevolutionary forces." But the Central Committee appears destined for a major overhaul...
When Polish Communist Party Secretary Stanislaw Kania took the floor last week to open an emergency Central Committee plenum in Warsaw, he faced one of the gravest challenges to confront the leader of a Soviet client state. Three days earlier, the Polish party had received its latest warning from a Soviet Central Committee increasingly disturbed over the course of Poland's "socialist renewal." The near ultimatum to the Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent...
...hastily called Polish Central Committee meeting was the fifth such session since last summer's strikes led to the formation of the Solidarity trade union movement and to the party upheavals that brought Kania to power. From that time on, the Polish party leadership has given way before a reformist tide that has resulted in official recognition both for Solidarity and for an independent farmers' union. It has also led to the democratic election of delegates to a Communist Party congress next month that is expected to ratify the reforms...
While renewal has the backing of most party members-and of the population as a whole-it also has formidable opponents. At every Central Committee session, Kania and moderate supporters have had to slug it out with influential, pro-Soviet hard-liners who fear that their power and prerogatives, and possibly their very jobs, will be swept away by the reforms...
...last year, Wyszynski supported the cause of striking Polish workers, although his early public calls for moderation led some militants to suspect him of siding with the government. He ultimately played a crucial mediating role, meeting with both Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa and Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, and thereby helped stave off a possibly catastrophic confrontation. Said Walesa, who continually looked to Wyszynski for inspiration and advice: "The Cardinal's teachings brought us to the point we all dreamed about." Last week millions of Poles could say the same thing about a man who kept alive...