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...Kania too comes down on the side of reform...
...empty gesture. Two days before, at a marathon session of the Central Committee, the party leadership had shown that it is out of step with its East bloc allies in far more fundamental ways. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania sought throughout the 19-hour session to satisfy the demands of his party's grass-roots reformers without openly challenging the Kremlin. In his own 90-minute speech, for example, he was careful to stress Poland's unshakable loyalty to the Soviet bloc. Ultimately, however, he seemed to come down clearly, and boldly, on the side of further democratization. Promising...
...Suslov. But friendship, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For hard-lining Polish Politburo Members Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski, who were on hand to greet their Soviet comrades at Okecie Airport, the handshakes must have felt fraternal indeed. For Warsaw's Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who led the delegation, and who has shown a tenacious commitment to reform, Suslov's arrival may have seemed more like a Siberian blizzard...
Suslov's visit may have been prompted by fears that Warsaw's Central Committee meeting this week would sanction further democratic reforms. Shortly before the visit, in fact, Kania told a socialist youth congress that "we have an unbending will to continue the process of social renewal, to develop democracy in the party and state, to reform the national economy, social life and government personnel." One could hardly draw up a list of goals more abhorrent to the Kremlin...
Moscow had plenty to kick about. Two weeks ago, the Kania government promised official recognition to Rural Solidarity, an 800,000-member independent farmers' union. At the same time, some 500 rank-and-file Polish Communists were allowed to hold a heretical meeting at Torun to demand greater democratization within the party. As if that were not enough to exasperate the Kremlin, Polish leaders continued to pursue a conciliatory policy toward the independent trade union federation. That policy was reflected in the government's proposed agenda for talks with Solidarity that resumed at week's end. Though...