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...Warsaw buys time as peace breaks out on the labor front...
...seemed. Within hours of the Lodz settlement, sympathy strikes ended at the University of Warsaw and 19 other campuses. In the southeastern city of Rzeszów, meanwhile, a seven-week farmers' sit-in ended after government negotiators signed agreements with peasant leaders there and in nearby Ustrzyki Dolne. Just seven days after the new Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski had issued his dramatic appeal for "90 days of calm," peace, it seemed, had broken out on all labor fronts...
...agreement with the farmers likely to win favor from the Kremlin's leaders. Though the Rzeszów peasants had apparently been persuaded by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to suspend their demands for an independent union, they had also wrested two significant promises from the government. First, Warsaw agreed to increase the proportion of state funds invested in private agriculture, which produces 80% of the country's domestically grown food. Second, independent farmers would be allowed to purchase unused state land, which would increase the amount of privately owned farm land. Both provisions, obviously, flew in the face...
...Warsaw's leaders must now convince their Soviet-bloc allies that they have not bought labor peace at the expense of the party's power monopoly. That was the apparent aim of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania's surprise visits to Prague and East Berlin last week. Party Bosses Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia and Erich Honecker of East Germany have been, along with the Soviets, the most bitter and vocal critics of Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain...
Kania's breathing space may be shortlived. As one Western diplomat noted, the easing of external pressure on Warsaw could well be due only "to a desire for peace and quiet within the East bloc during the upcoming Soviet Party Congress in Moscow." In presiding over that nine-day Communist extravaganza, which begins this week, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev will want to paint Moscow's empire in the most favorable light possible; thus the timing of Poland's apparent labor truce works to the Kremlin's advantage. But when Kania returns from Moscow, his ears...