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...knows precisely who runs the country. The 21-member Military Council for National Salvation is largely a figurehead group. Instead, General Jaruzelski relies on a small kitchen cabinet of advisers. The government is rent by factionalism. Supporters of Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who is thought to be a liberal, and those of Party Hard-Liner Tadeusz Grabski take potshots at each other in the official press...
...reconstitute trade unions in Poland, though only on its terms. Walesa has also rejected the government's offer to allow him and his family to leave Poland. As Danuta said in an interview published in the London Sunday Times: "He replied by yelling at Vice Premier [Mieczyslaw] Rakowski, who ran from the room...
...hard-liners blame the present crisis not only on ex-Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who cooperated with Solidarity, but on some of the major figures in the current leadership. Among them: Kazimierz Barcikowski and Hieronim Kubiak, both Politburo members, and Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski. Since all three are close to Jaruzelski, who is thought to side with the moderates, the general also seems to be an indirect target. But Jaruzelski's position appears to be secure: not only does he control the army, he seems to enjoy the full confidence of the Kremlin. On the eve of the plenum...
...December that "the gallows have to be built" for the Communists. The union leader was personally denounced by the Polish Press Agency as a "front for the anti-Communist crusade" and a traitor to "working-class interests." In an interview with the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, Deputy Premier Rakowski dismissed Walesa as "an unhappy man" who "failed to live up to events...
...sincere when he believed in democracy," says Richard Davies, who, as U.S. Ambassador to Poland from 1972 to 1978, knew Rakowski well. "But you had to know what he meant-as long as democracy was granted from on high, not from below, because that threatened the authorities." Rakowski may have been caught in the classic trap of Communist intellectuals, the discovery that what seems plausible in theory-in his case, the liberalizing of Communism-often does not work in practice...