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...appointment was generally applauded overseas. Said a senior British diplomat: "Haig was Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's first choice. He is in our view a highly intelligent, clear-headed and able man." Added a top-ranking foreign policy adviser in Bonn: "He is extremely well equipped for the job, and for us, it is especially gratifying that he knows well every important European personality." About the only dissent came, not surprisingly, from Moscow. An official with a worried expression groused: 'This won't help us improve things." Muttered another: 'Not good...
...huge ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the bloody 1970 riots on the Baltic coast was planned for this week, and officials worried lest it get out of hand. If it did, Soviet troops stood on alert at Poland's borders. "The Poles," said a concerned analyst in Bonn, "seem to have a particular talent for courting national suicide." But the workers were not contemplating retreat. Said Union Leader Lech Walesa: "We are not cowards. We are not going back, ever...
Nonetheless, there have been worried meetings at both the sponsors' headquarters and the networks. Says Bonn O'Brien at CBS: "We don't feel any one group has the right to decide what programs we put on the air." Says another corporate executive: "The real fear is that this will take hold and spread. If the conservative right and the Sunday television ministers take this up as a cause, you will find that we are more than upset...
Based on Soviet tactics in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan last year, experts in Bonn outlined the following possible invasion scenario: the two Soviet divisions stationed in Poland would quickly try to secure strategic points, notably major airports, so that infantry and light artillery could be flown in as reinforcements. At the same time, tank forces and additional motorized infantry would move across the borders from the Soviet Union and East Germany. Soldiers from the satellites would be used sparingly, in case anti-Soviet feeling flared throughout the East bloc. East German troops would probably be withheld...
...trained Polish army would almost certainly fight back, possibly alongside Polish workers. If defeated, the Poles would no doubt set up an opposition underground. "The core of it would probably be Solidarity because it is already organized and has nationally respected leadership," said a senior Foreign Ministry analyst in Bonn...