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...grief was perhaps greatest in Poland. John Paul has been an inspirational force to his overwhelmingly Catholic fellow countrymen, who are struggling to liberalize their nation's Communist system without plunging it into anarchy. Acutely aware of the Pope's influence, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, President Henryk Jablonski and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski joined in a telegram wishing him a speedy recovery "so indispensable to fulfilling your mission in the service of the humanistic ideals of peace and the welfare...
...less remarkable were the specific reforms proposed by Kania and subsequently adopted by the plenum. Among them: a limit of two terms for all party officials, the banning of multiple officeholding by party members and the direct election by local party groups of delegates to the July 14-19 party congress...
...Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...
...Kania's lip service to the Soviet bloc, the Central Committee's actions seemed to fly in the face of Moscow's injunctions. Only six days before the plenum began, hard-lining Soviet Ideologue Mikhail Suslov had flown to Warsaw to deliver what was presumed to be a stiff warning to hold the line against further democratization. Shortly after that, a sizzling article published by TASS, the official Soviet news agency, charged unnamed Polish party reformists with "revisionism"-one of the gravest epithets in the Communist lexicon and one that was invoked against the reform-minded Czechoslovak...
...reversal of the Leninist principle of "democratic centralism," by which power flows down from the Central Committee. That movement, born at a meeting of party dissidents in Torun on April 15, is now active in 40 of Poland's 49 provinces. In his speech before the Central Committee, Kania conspicuously refrained from attacking the Torun movement. While he warned that the party's "historically tested Leninist construction" must not be undermined, Kania described the Torun initiative as "generally positive...