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...Central Committee, mindful of Moscow's warning that Poland should not resort to "non-Leninist" means in trying to solve its economic problems, is taking a fairly hard line on the subject. Insisting that the state would not give up its right to choose managers, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania warned Solidarity that the government would use "any means necessary to defend socialism." The Central Committee seemed ready, however, to offer two concessions: 1) the state would be prepared to select directors from lists of candidates submitted by workers' councils; and 2) the workers' councils of "smaller enterprises...
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...
First, there were some personal differences to mend: this was Kama's first meeting with Brezhnev since the Kremlin's June 5 letter blasting the Polish leader for being soft on "counterrevolution." Then Kania had some explanations to give about last month's party congress in Warsaw-an unprecedented session that democratized the party's structure and purged much of its leadership. Most urgent of all was what to do about the latest wave of strikes and demonstrations sparked by Poland's critical food shortage...
After their meeting, the leaders issued a communique agreeing that the Polish situation is "very complex and difficult." But one sign of some Kremlin tolerance was a decision to defer Poland's debt payments to the Soviets. It may have helped that Kania had not waited for his summons to the Crimea to adopt a hard line at home. Addressing the first session of the newly elected Central Committee in Warsaw early last week, he grimly warned: "We must find a way to make Polish streets peaceful again or the logic of events could lead to the greatest national...
...plan for economic recovery. Strikes were erupting across the country in response to the government's decision last month to raise food prices by over 300% and cut meat rations by 20%. The Soviet press was rumbling again about the dangerous unrest in Poland. And Party Boss Stanislaw Kania was reported to be packing his bags for a possible meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the Soviet President's Crimean resort. At week's end, the government declared it would not pay workers who had struck, and the trade union Solidarity called for a temporary halt...