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...diminish morale and productivity, while failing to curb political dissent. But if Jaruzelski does not crack down, he may face difficult challenges from increasingly impatient hard-liners within his own regime. One such warning came last week at a Central Committee meeting when a letter from former Politburo Member Tadeusz Grabski was circulated accusing the government of allowing Poland to slide into anarchy. Any new power struggle among Poland's Communists would not only jeopardize Jaruzelski's hold on power but make even worse the economic situation that government leaders themselves last week described as "a breakdown...
...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...
...general in the army or police. Except for the white belts that are worn by the W.S.W. (the Military Security Service assigned to keep an eye on members of Poland's 320,000-strong armed forces), the special troops have almost no distinguishing marks on their uniforms. Explains Tadeusz Nowakowski, a prominent Polish writer now living in Munich: "The leadership knows that Poles like Polish soldiers, so they play a trick on them. Poles never know precisely if they are dealing with the army, the special units or the secret police in uniform...
Even as the Communist regime prosecuted its own ex-leaders, the party itself continued to crumble from within. Since the crackdown began, 4,000 party members in Warsaw alone have turned in their cards in protest. Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach, a leading liberal, resigned last week. Many others are likely to be expelled as the party executes what Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski called a "purge of opportunists, careerists and immoral people." Totally discredited in the eyes of the public, the party now has an estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized...
...part expose on the privileges of top Communist officials. In student clubs, journalists' groups and literary unions, there were open discussions of topics that had been forbidden in the universities, such as Poland's history between the world wars. New publications bloomed like wild flowers. Edited by Catholic Intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the weekly Solidarnosc quickly reached a nationwide circulation of 500,000, easily outdistancing the once-prestigious party weekly Polityka (circ...