ABSTRACT
The special Party Congress drawing nearer amidst fresh incidents of labor unrest, Soviet military moves resumed and Gromyko was sent to confer with the Polish leaders. The Government cabinet is approvingly said to have directed State organs to curb lawbreakers. The Soviet–Polish communique issue indicates that Gromyko is not entirely satisfies with heard from Kania and Jaruzelski, but did get pledges of resolve to avert a landslide of democracy at the Polish United Worker’s Party Congress. A narrow intolerance marked the speech of Grishin on the opening day of the Congress. Pravda muffled the indignation of Congress delegates against the senior bureaucrats who were thwarting economic reform and refusing to come to terms with past injustice. Soviet abhorrence of reform at the doorstep was noticeable too from Pravda’s suppression of other statements by Congress delegates.
