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Though it was the first nationwide walkout since March 27, last week's action seemed much like the countless other strikes that have punctuated more than a year of Polish labor unrest and political turmoil. But there was one key difference: General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the nation's Premier, who had just taken over the party leadership, had sent soldiers throughout the country to guard against economic disruptions and "provocations...
...recent national poll showed that civilians ranked the army third in favor among the country's institutions, just behind the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. (The party came in a poor sixth, trailing even the hated police.) During the riots over food price increases in 1976, General Wojciech Jaruzelski showed how closely the army was allied with the people when he declared: "Polish soldiers will not fire on Polish workers...
Authorities in Warsaw were getting ready for a possible confrontation. Addressing a tense session of parliament, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski announced that special army units would join police to suppress "deepening anarchy, hooliganism, antistate and anti-Soviet excesses." He implied that force might be used unless Solidarity retreated from the boldly political demands it had adopted at the first Gdansk session two weeks earlier. That meeting had called for free democratic elections, worker control of industrial enterprises and-most provocative of all-the spread of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet-controlled East bloc...
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...
...week's end the government's problems produced a Cabinet shuffle that unseated three ministers. Among them was Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was reportedly sacked for failing to produce an economic recovery program. Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, an army general, turned to two fellow officers to fill vacant posts: General Czeslaw Kiszczak as Interior Minister, and General Tadeusz Hupalowski as Minister of Administration...