Poland: Bad Day at Bydgoszcz

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Even so, the spark could still be struck this week if Solidarity and the government cannot reach some workable agreements. At week's end, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski sent a top-level commission to Bydgoszcz to try to defuse the crisis. But after a tour of the country, Adam Bromke, a political scientist and Poland specialist at McMaster University in Ontario, was pessimistic about the long-range outcome. The Communist Party and the union, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik, are "two trains heading for a collision. They are entering a situation that nobody controls." ∎