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...spite of all these compelling arguments for not going in, the Kremlin might ultimately decide that it has no choice. Indeed, according to a Western intelligence report, Brezhnev himself had to break a deadlock in the Politburo to block a Soviet decision to invade Poland last December. Last week's decision to give the Polish leadership another reprieve was also thought to have been adopted only after a fierce debate in the Kremlin. Reliable reports reaching Whitehall, TIME has learned, indicate that the case in favor of intervention was made by hard-line Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, supported...
...Comrade Kania, if you will help us carry out the renewal of the party and the nation. If not, we shall do it by ourselves." That bold assertion drew a standing ovation. Another local party member derided the "merry-go-round" system whereby the same old faces dominated the Politburo. Kania responded by promising personnel changes in the Central Committee and Politburo. Similar rank-and-file pressures for reform appeared to be responsible for new "legal proceedings" that were initiated last week against former Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz. The charge: economic mismanagement...
Short of intervention, Moscow's hopes of stemming a tide of democratization seemed to rest with Polish hard-liners like Politburo Members Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski. If they could seize the upper hand within the party, then the Soviets would probably have no immediate need to go in. Brezhnev himself reportedly requested that Olszowski be sent to represent the Polish party in Prague last week, and the two men held long consultations there. Some Western analysts speculated that a new party shake-up might soon substitute Olszowski for Kania, whose name went conspicuously unmentioned at the Prague congress...
...another week of suspense passed in the drama of Poland, the armies of the Warsaw Pact were still waiting for orders from the 14 men who make up the Soviet Politburo. Most of those leaders are old and weary. Some, like Leonid Brezhnev, are chronically ill and sometimes incapacitated. Politburo members have less and less time and energy to study briefing books prepared by their staffs or to sit through lengthy deliberations with their advisers. They have come to rely more and more on instincts born of long experience...
...Soviet secret police. Arkady is not wanted here; these are no common killings. But then, this is no ordinary investigator. Son of an embittered general, indifferent party member, all too aware of disparities in Soviet society, he runs contrary to official wishes, pursuing his quarry through Politburo corridors and down provincial streets. It is a lethal quest. The three corpses are soon joined by others, some innocent, some who seem to have tumbled from Stalin's overcoat...