Word: wyszynski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poles also prayed yesterday for the dying primate of their Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, who once was the pope's mentor and who for 33 years was the embattled church's leader...
...confrontation including some bloodshed. This time it looked like it was not a bluff." With that grim threat waving over them, the Solidarity delegates dropped their unyielding stance and began working toward a compromise agreement. They were apparently also prompted by some behind-the-scenes mediation from Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Primate of Poland. Midway through the talks came a promising sign: Solidarity extended from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. the deadline it had set for calling off the strike...
With the official negotiations apparently bogged down, mediation efforts got under way behind the scenes to avert an explosive showdown. Jaruzelski met with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, to enlist his help. Church officials and intellectuals reportedly proposed a compromise plan: to turn over the Bydgoszcz investigation to a special parliamentary committee and to grant the farmers a "chamber of agriculture" rather than a union. The remaining demands would be shelved until the crisis passed. The party leadership reportedly rejected the proposal...
Walesa insists that he is simply a "union man" and not a politician. Yet the labor upheaval that toppled Party Boss Edward Gierek also made Solidarity's leader one of Poland's three most powerful people. The other two-new Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, spiritual leader of Poland's 32 million Catholics-now confer with this diminutive union man almost as if he were a high state official. Walesa takes his dizzying rise to eminence in stride. Says he: "I am not concerned with fame in the least. I have...
...Roman Catholic Church, always a potent force in Polish affairs, could become a possible mediator between the workers and the authorities. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Primate of Poland, told a delegation from Solidarity: "I am with you. You will last it out and you will win." Two days later the Cardinal met with new Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and discussed, according to the Polish Press Agency, "matters of great significance for the internal peace of the country...