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...date to Poland's Communist leaders, Moscow last week declared that an "unbridled" campaign of "rabid propaganda" against the Soviet Union had been allowed to reach "dangerous limits" with impunity. Delivered personally to Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania by Soviet Ambassador Boris Aristov, the message called on Warsaw to take "radical steps" to curb the "malicious propaganda and actions hostile toward the Soviet Union...
...Warsaw's authorities lost no time in launching their own get-tough campaign-at least on paper. After two emergency meetings last week, the Council of Ministers published a statement accusing Solidarity of seeking to seize political power in Poland. To prove that charge, Polish authorities cited the resolutions adopted a week earlier at Solidarity's national convention in Gdansk. The union had called for self-management of industrial enterprises by the workers, free democratic elections and the emergence of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet bloc. The last resolution was presumably the main source of the "anti...
...Warsaw's bosses and leaders of the Solidarity union federation squared off for another possible showdown last week, millions of Poles waged their frustrating daily battle, waiting in lines up to half a mile long to buy food and basic necessities for their families. TIME Eastern Europe Correspondent Richard Hornik reports from Warsaw...
...received unquestioned priority. No longer. Now those who head for the special "line on the left" are often pelted with insults-or worse. "Who told you to get pregnant now?" snapped a middle-aged woman last week as a young mother-to-be entered a butcher shop in downtown Warsaw. "Here comes the little cripple," muttered another shopper as a handicapped woman hobbled toward the counter. "She'll probably skip home when she gets around the corner...
...this month, remains to be seen. Emboldened by the passage of last week's resolutions, the advocates of confrontation may ultimately seize control of the fledgling labor movement, especially if the country's economic debacle drives frustrated Poles to the boiling point. Said one government official in Warsaw: "The hard-liners in Solidarity play into the hands of the hard-liners in the party and vice versa. I am very worried that they will get the confrontation they seem to want."-By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Richard Hornik/Warsaw