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...Moscow, meanwhile, where Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek was conferring with his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, a joint communiqué denounced the NATO declaration as "an attempt at grossly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." In a separate commentary, however, the Soviet news agency TASS expressed the hope that disagreements over the Polish question would not compromise the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons...
That is the sort of pledge that Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Polish Primate, has publicly denounced as "unethical." Last week Pope John Paul II also attacked Warsaw's coercive use of loyalty oaths in a strongly worded speech from the Vatican. Said he: "The violation of conscience is a serious injury done to man. It is the most pitiful blow inflicted upon human dignity. It is in a certain sense worse than inflicting physical death...
...Poles who jammed into St. John's Cathedral in downtown Warsaw last week had come to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany. What they witnessed, along with the Mass, was one of the most courageous displays of free speech since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the spiritual leader of Poland's 33 million Roman Catholics, mounted the carved oak pulpit to attack the excesses of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's military regime...
...information. Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, having returned from Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. Says Flamini: "I calculate that at least half the people I talked to in Poland are now under arrest...
...travel and communications imposed special hardships. Rumors flourished?that Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Primate of Poland, had been arrested, that a top Solidarity leader had committed suicide?and could not be checked. Messages about sicknesses and funerals could not be sent. "I will die now," said a woman in Warsaw matter-of-factly. She had been scheduled for brain surgery in the U.S. this week, and now could not leave. At her side, her doctor sadly agreed. Because of the curfew, nurses and doctors could keep their hospitals open 24 hours a day only by taking up residence inside. Said...