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When all the debates had ended and the last votes were counted Stanislaw Kania had a sobering thought for the delegates to the Ninth Extraordinary Congress of the Polish Communis Party. Unless they could now move from words to actions, warned the newly re-elected party leader in a tough closing speech, "history might brand us as those who talked Poland to death...
...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, for its part, seemed to be taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Polish liberalizations that it had tried, and failed, to discourage. After sending Kania a terse congratulatory telegram upon his reelection, omitting the customary expression of confidence, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled somewhat warmer greetings to Warsaw's leaders as the Poles celebrated their national day last week. The message declared...
Moscow's ambiguity and confusion are understandable: the Polish party leadership has passed into the hands of a new and largely unknown group that lacks experience. Fewer than 10% of the members of the outgoing Central Committee, the party's main administrative unit, were re-elected to the expanded 200-seat body. Though the moderate Kania kept his post as party leader, only four incumbent Politburo members remained in the new 15-member Politburo...
...Zurich, meanwhile, representatives of Western and Japanese banks agreed on a proposed plan to postpone payment of some $3 billion in Polish debts falling due this year, part of the staggering total of $27 billion that Warsaw owes to non-Communist banks and governments. A Polish government delegation concurred in "the spirit" of the proposal, whose exact terms were not disclosed, but will not give its reply until next month...
Enter the handsome aviator (Peter Coffield) and his passenger, the daredevil Polish acrobat Lina Szczepanowska (Patricia Elliott), Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...