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This is only the beginning of Brosio's problem. NATO members in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions are afraid that any troop reduction in Central Europe would simply release a flood of Russian troops to put pressure on NATO's northern and southern flanks (see box opposite). Then there is the matter of the 329,000-man French army, which is outside Brosio's domain. France was the only one of the 15 NATO powers that did not endorse Brosio's mission, making it clear that the Italian explorer is in no way empowered to speak...
That is all too harsh a judgment of Edward Gierek, 58, the pragmatic technocrat who took over as party leader after Wladyslaw Gomulka, 66, was forced to resign because of last December's Baltic coast riots. In fact, Gierek has done many things that Gomulka in recent years would not have dared. Last week he made important moves in his overall strategy to ease economic and religious tensions in Poland, and to shunt aside hard-line leaders who also happen to be his rivals for power. Specifically, Gierek: - Introduced a new Five-Year Plan to the party...
Gierek's tactics in settling the December riots helped create the Lodz situation. To placate workers in Poland's big Baltic shipyards, Gierek did what no Communist leader in history had ever dared to do: instead of crushing the protesters, he gave in to their demands. Bargaining personally with the strikers, Gierek agreed to rescind a complicated new bonus system that workers feared would reduce their take-home pay. He also raised the minimum wage and pensions. But Gierek held fast on one crucial point: he refused to cancel an average 17% increase in food prices...
...escaped the control of their national governments." Thus, he believes the Common Market will be forced to provide the control, with technocrats in Brussels wielding power over what is already the world's largest trading area, with no barriers on the interchange of goods from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. Last November, the foreign ministers of the Six held their first formal meeting since 1962 to orchestrate common policy; they agreed to meet
...Politburo and the Central Committee clearly indicated how worried the party was by the sweeping nature of the revolt, as did Gierek's initial, conciliatory moves. He ended the state of emergency, under which police and the army had been sent into the riot zones along the Baltic seacoast with orders to shoot to kill. As cities quieted, dusk-to-dawn curfews were lifted in time for pious Poles to attend Christmas Eve midnight Mass. Air, road and telephone services were restored, breaking the cocoon of isolation that Gomulka had imposed to limit the demonstrations...