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...least a fortnight earlier. When authorities published a list of 57 dissidents who had been "detained," it was plain that the list had been drawn up in advance: three people on it were out of the country. (Not on the list but determined to protest the "flagrant and brutal" crackdown and to express his "solidarity" with Walesa: Poland's Ambassador to the U.S., Romuald Spasowski, who sought and was swiftly granted asylum along with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.) Last week, after the sudden crackdown, a Gdansk doctor said he realized at last why so many extra beds...
...major cities. There was little traffic, but in some areas Poles took to the streets, and demonstrators pelted army trucks with snowballs. Outside Solidarity's headquarters, union members handed out crude leaflets demanding an immediate nationwide general strike. Another leaflet condemned the martial law decree as a "brutal provocation of the country's legal order and an attempt at paralyzing and crushing Solidarity and society." At one point police turned fire hoses on 200 demonstrators...
Five years of American involvement in Vietnam--of soldiers dying, lots of them--elapsed before sustantial numbers of people began making a substantial amount of noise; by contrast, the news of our much less direct role in El Salvador's stunningly brutal repression was swift, loud, and over-whelmingly angry. The Reagan administration had hoped to commence a new sort of cold war foreign policy in the Central American nation. The State Department declared in February that El Salvador was a "strikingly familiar case of Soviet, Cuban and other Communist military involvement in a politically troubled Third World country...
...natural and meaningful. Lilienthal's Uprising recreates the final bloody months of the 1979 revolution, and Sandino, a documentary, looks at the year that follows the victory. Despite crude acting and a liberal dash of sentiment, Lilienthal succeeds brilliantly in showing how this revolution--and more important how the brutal piggishness of American ally Anastasio Somoza--touched the life of the people. Little wonder that Nicaraguans who watched their neighbors, their sons, shot in the back for no good reason, who ran off the streets to avoid the ubiquitous National Guard convoys, who saw their priests murdered and their churches...
...country of socialism. They want to run the factories themselves (an idea which makes American conservative applause for the movement both hypocritical and ironic). And what is more, they want to guarantee individual liberties at the same time. No more the dichotomy between humane economy/inhumane society and brutal economy/laissez-faire society. (More often there is brutality all around, anyway.) But instead, a land where freethinkers support airing Masses on the radio...