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...such trends, Kania has endorsed a series of reforms that, if approved by this week's congress, would make the Polish Communist Party the most liberal in the Soviet bloc. The Sejm, Poland's parliament, is already the most representative and outspoken legislative body among the Warsaw Pact nations...
Gromyko flies to Warsaw on the eve of a crucial congress...
There were no photographers on hand when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stepped onto the tarmac at Warsaw's Okecie Airport last week. The official Polish press agency reported only that "high party officials" had been there to greet the distinguished visitor. The low-key arrival of one of the Kremlin's most powerful leaders, a man widely regarded as a pragmatist rather than a hard-lining ideologue, was seen as a reassuring sign by many Poles. Said one Warsaw journalist: "It means that the Soviets are prepared to accept what we are doing as long...
That optimism may be premature. Gromyko's very presence in Warsaw was a sign of Soviet concern at a moment of political change and uncertainty unparalleled in Poland's postwar history. Buffeted by a year of sporadic labor unrest and economic turmoil, faced with the constant threat of Soviet intervention, the Polish Communists last week completed the election of delegates to an extraordinary party congress. Its purpose: to elect party leaders and act on a series of proposed structural reforms that are expected to make the Polish Communist Party by far the most liberal in the Soviet bloc...
...strengthen his country's already formidable defenses-its 340,000-man army is considered by far the best in Western Europe-at a time when many of his countrymen think that it is hopeless even to think of opposing the Soviet juggernaut. NATO forces are outnumbered by the Warsaw Pact nations more than 2 to 1 in divisions, better than 3 to 1 in tanks and a frightening 8 to 1 in medium-range nuclear missiles. Logistics experts fear that NATO forces would start running short of ammunition, fuel, weapons and spare parts within scant days of any Soviet...