Can Poland's boss keep the lid on? (Wojciech Jaruzelski)

U.S. News & World Report | December 10, 1984| | Copyright

Four years after he took over Poland's Communist government, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski is trapped tighter than ever between a new upsurge of popular unrest and demands by hard-liners for tougher crackdowns on troublemakers.

So serious is the wave of street demonstrations, passive resistance by workers and other challenges to the regime--all triggered by the October murder of an anti-Communist Roman Catholic priest--that some analysts here wonder if Jaruzelski can maintain his grip on this sorely troubled nation.

Even if present upheavals are curbed by ...

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