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...consequence for U.S. forces in West Germany is not just low morale; there is a growing concern that they could not mobilize quickly enough to ward off a Warsaw Pact attack. According to Maxwell D. Taylor, retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shortages of well-maintained equipment and of supply units generally mean that in Europe and elsewhere "regular divisions, no matter how prepared themselves, are not in fact ready to perform their combat missions...
...Gdansk, deeply tanned farmers from Poznan, professors from Cracow. Their average age was only 40. They had been chosen by secret ballots in elections at their local party units; 91% had never before taken part in such a referendum. But when the 1,955 delegates converged last week on Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, a towering marble-and-granite edifice given to the Polish people by Joseph Stalin in the 1950s, they seemed determined to make the Ninth Congress of the Polish Communist Party a historic turning point for the whole nation...
...congress convened at a critical juncture. Nearly a year after Poland's striking workers had won an unprecedented set of liberal concessions from Warsaw's Communist bosses, the country was reeling under a deepening economic crisis, and the party was in disarray. Hard-liners were calling for repressive measures that could spark a new wave of labor unrest; radicals demanded sweeping reforms that some feared might send Soviet tanks rolling across the border. What was needed, above all, was a strong, credible leadership and clear policies for dealing with the country's problems...
...importance, the congress was initially greeted with skepticism and indifference by some Poles. Explained one Warsaw accountant standing near the Palace of Culture on opening day: "It's hard to be enthusiastic. Society's expectations have been disappointed so many times before." Yet the delegates approached their task with a sense of mission and hope rarely seen in the Eastern bloc these days. Explained Delegate Jozef Gajewicz, the mayor of Cracow: "A great explosion of democracy brought the delegates here. They have come to fight for what they believe...
...government newspaper declared that the new man "enjoys the sincere and warm approval of the state." The subject of all this attention was a short, stout farmer's son named Jozef Glemp, who was named Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and Roman Catholic Primate of Poland. "I want peace and unity for the whole nation," he promptly declared...