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When Polish Communist Party Secretary Stanislaw Kania took the floor last week to open an emergency Central Committee plenum in Warsaw, he faced one of the gravest challenges to confront the leader of a Soviet client state. Three days earlier, the Polish party had received its latest warning from a Soviet Central Committee increasingly disturbed over the course of Poland's "socialist renewal." The near ultimatum to the Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent...
...evaluation of journalistic cadres" -signaling a probable purge of journalists -and called for the forces of public order to crack down on open dissent. The resolution also labeled political strikes "inadmissible." On this last point, even Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was moved to agree, telling workers at a Warsaw auto plant that "we [Solidarity] do not exist to change the government or to engage in political activities." It remains to be seen how aggressively the party's pledges will be carried out. The Poles have found ways to circumvent the wishes of their Soviet mentors before. -By Sara Medina...
...Soviets' criticisms and quarrels with Poland's "socialist renewal," opposite words must, in the fashion of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, be substituted: for "free and independent," read subservient; for "counterrevolution" read reform and democratization; and for "protection of the socialist commonwealth" read intervention by Warsaw Pact forces. Excerpts from the letter, as translated by the New York Times...
...earned the affectionate nickname of the "worker priest." Active in the anti-Nazi resistance as an underground army chaplain in World War II, he was consecrated as the Bishop of Lublin in 1946. Two and a half years later, Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, an appointment that also made Wyszynski, at 47, the Primate of Poland-leader of the nation's church hierarchy...
DIED. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 79, astute, autocratic Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and Primate of Poland's Roman Catholic Church; of abdominal cancer; in Warsaw (see WORLD...