Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support the second premise of his book: neither God nor man has yet decided what "the fate of the earth" will be. "Since we have not made a positive decision to exterminate ourselves but instead have chosen to live on the edge of extinction, periodically lunging toward the abyss only to draw back at the last second, our situation is one of uncertainty and nervous insecurity rather than of absolute hopelessness." Man, in short, has a choice...
...party chief and Premier, made a radio address to the country. He declared a state of martial law and announced that henceforth the country would be ruled by a "military council for national salvation." Speaking in a tired voice, he said, "Our country is at the verge of an abyss. The state structure has ceased operating." Solidarity's leaders, he charged, "threaten us with the use of force. They no longer obey the law. Everyone is on strike. They call for confrontation with the Reds. We had to do something before they thrust us into civil war . . . We have...
...last 15 months, the West has heard that Poland teeters on a narrow precipice, despite having managed to resolve crisis after crisis through touch-and-go negotiations. This weekend, the Polish Communist Party finally saw its opportunity--in Jaruzelski's words--to prevent Poland from falling into "the abyss...
Party rhetoric does not differ markedly from earlier pronouncements and warnings. "The abyss" has existed every since the August 1980 strike in Gdansk's Lenin Shipyards; it is the abyss of freedom which has proved far too deep for the Soviet players and their pawns. We can only lament that a genuine labor movement with broad national support and an innovative program has been so blatantly repressed by a state supposedly dedicated to its workers...
...Jaruzelski declares martial law and says Solidarity leaders would be interned in what he calls an effort to save Poland from "the abyss...