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Jaruzelski's tough talk may have been intended to mollify a jittery Kremlin as much as to admonish his own countrymen. Indeed, one of the main goals of the congress was to persuade the Soviet Union not to intervene in Poland to seize control of the faltering government. Moscow...
If labor troubles simmer down, the Jaruzelski government will have a chance to complete its long-awaited economic reform blueprint. A foreshadowing of the plan came three days after the end of the congress, when the head of the government's price commission announced a series of proposed price...
For all its importance, the congress was initially greeted with skepticism and indifference by some Poles. Explained one Warsaw accountant standing near the Palace of Culture on opening day: "It's hard to be enthusiastic. Society's expectations have been disappointed so many times before." Yet the delegates...
Yet the Poles manage to get by some how, and life goes on in Poland's bustling cities almost as if there were no crisis. As the party congress convened last week, Poland seemed more gay than stoic, perhaps because more than half of its population is under 30...
Perhaps this calm is merely "the eye of a cyclone," as one actress suggested last week. On the other hand, it may just be that this time the Poles feel they have gained something worthwhile-and lasting-by undergoing so many hardships: the breath of freedom that has warmed their...