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...Stefan Kanfer...
...were also preoccupied with the momentous changes that their country has undergone since the signing of the Gdansk agreement by the government and the unionists a year ago. The party has been challenged and to a considerable extent reformed; the Catholic Church, though now deprived of its venerable primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last May, has become an arbiter between party and union; and Solidarity has grown into an organization of 10 million members, the only independent trade union in the Communist bloc. The climate of fear that lay over the land for more than three decades has gradually...
...risky but rewarding task of spotting literary talent, Sheppard worked as an editor and reviewer for the book section of the now defunct New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME as a book reviewer in 1967. His cover story this week on Irving, which was edited by Stefan Kanfer and researched by Zona Sparks, is Sheppard's third. (The others: Vladimir Nabokov in 1969 and Mario Puzo...
Most of the incoming Politburo members appear to share Kania's centrist position. Two important exceptions: Interior Minister Miroslaw Milewski and Construction Worker Albin Siwak, both conservatives. They are expected to ally with the old Politburo's one surviving hardliner, Stefan Olszowski, to resist further political reforms...
...major moderating influence over the union during the past year has been the Roman Catholic hierarchy, especially the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland. A trusted adviser to Walesa, Wyszynski helped mediate settlements of some potentially disastrous labor-government confrontations. The hierarchy has made some significant gains of its own, such as getting the right to broadcast Sunday Mass and erect new churches. Still, some observers feel that the church's political effectiveness may be diminished as other popular institutions develop within Poland. But Kania, who last week praised the country's religious leaders...