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...textile center of Bielsko-Biala, where strikers demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials had shut down 120 factories and paralyzed most of the surrounding province since Jan. 27. At midweek the provincial governor and three deputies submitted their resignations, apparently clearing the way for a solution. But Premier Jozef Pinkowski refused to accept the resignations immediately. With that, the talks broke off abruptly...
That sort of dialogue may yet develop. Late last week Warsaw proposed a joint union-government commission to study the economic impact of ending Saturday labor. Government Spokesman Jozef Barecki, meanwhile, suggested the government might take up some of Solidarity's current demands-though he insisted authorities would not bow to an "ultimatum" from the workers. In spite of the week's bluster and turbulence, therefore, there still appeared to be some small chance for compromise-a chance neither side could afford to lose. The alternative was a mounting spiral of confrontation that could ultimately tempt the Soviets...
Walesa himself was summoned to Warsaw by Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek, who presumably laid down the line established during Czyrek's Kremlin meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev two weeks ago. Walesa discreetly declined to reveal details of his conversation with Czyrek, claiming that it merely concerned the union leader's forthcoming trip to the Vatican. Walesa then spent five hours with Deputy Premier Andrzej Jedynak discussing proposed new labor and censorship laws, Solidarity's right of access to the news media, and the farmers' attempt to form their own union. Emerging from this second...
...with Soviet troops still poised on the frontier, even the militants do not want to change the union's conciliatory course-at least just yet. At week's end, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev met with Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek in Moscow. While expressing confidence that the Polish party could solve the country's internal difficulties, the two leaders assailed "attempts of imperialist and other reactionary circles" to undermine socialist Poland. For the restive militants, it was a grim reminder of the limits of Soviet tolerance...
...tailspin, the Soviets last week gave their suffering satellite $1.1 billion in hard-currency credits and $200 million in commodities. Most analysts believe Soviet military intervention is a distant last resort, to be used only in case of serious disturbances or a total breakdown of party control. Jozef Klasa, chief spokesman for the Central Committee, gave credence to this view when he said: "If the threat to socialism is real-and I think this could happen when authority slips out of the hands of the democratic process -this would end in drama and tragedy...