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...Premier may be Kania 's last chance to restore order peaceably...
...Jaruzelski retained the defense portfolio he has held since 1968, giving him control over both the Cabinet and the army (see box). That double duty made the Soviet-trained World War II veteran the second most powerful man in the government after Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Jaruzelski, who has a reputation as a tough military professional as well as a staunch party loyalist, wasted no time in taking command. His predecessor had hardly cleaned out his desk when the general sacked two Deputy Premiers and five of 40 Cabinet ministers, many of whom were holdovers from the regime of deposed...
...Foreign policy experts in Bonn see Jaruzelski as an orthodox party loyalist whose rise presages direct action by the Polish armed forces if the labor situation deteriorates further. U.S. State Department analysts, pointing to Jaruzelski's past reluctance to use force against strikers, predict that he will support Kania's relatively moderate policy toward the unions. If that happens, Kania will have gained a valuable counterweight in his struggle against extreme hard-liners like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski who have been arguing for an immediate crackdown. Finally, Jaruzelski is trusted by the Kremlin; thus his entry into...
Enough is enough! That was the unmistakable message from Warsaw's Communist bosses as Poland struggled through another tense week of strikes and stop-and-start negotiations between the government and the unions. In one of his toughest speeches to date, Party Leader Stanislaw Kania charged that Solidarity, the independent union federation, was "being steered in the direction of political opposition." As a result, he thundered, "we have come face to face with manifestations of anarchy, with the transformation of a group that called itself a trade union into something far removed from what is laid down...
...main trouble spots. He went first to the southern town of Rzeszow, near the Soviet border, where government representatives were meeting with some of the 300 farmers who have occupied a local government building for five weeks. Their key demand was legalization of Rural Solidarity, the independent farm union. Kania last week reiterated his opposition to the farm union as a potential instrument of "political struggle against the people's power." The supreme court is expected to endorse that view when it rules on Rural Solidarity's status this week...