Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those hopes were dashed early Sunday morning, when Polish security troops raided Solidarity's Warsaw headquarters and arrested union officials across the nation. Within hours after the crackdown began, Polish premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of national emergency and imposed martial...
Reports filtering out of the country were sketchy because of a nearly complete communications blackout. The regime halted telex and telephone communications when the crackdown began and grounded all flights to the West. Later in the week, the Associated Press, Reuters, and other Western news agencies also lost their communication links with Poland...
...POLISH GOVERNMENT'S harsh crackdown on the Solidarity workers' movement, and its revocation of the freedoms won so inspiringly by the Polish people over the past 15 months, merit swift and strong condemnation. A protest against this unjustifiable action, featuring two speakers who are veterans of the Polish dissident movement, has been scheduled for the steps of Memorial Church at 1 p.m. today. To express their outrage, and to stay as informed as possible, all members of the University community should attend...
Despite the clear absence of panic over the recent crackdown, members nevertheless viewed the future gloomily. "All of my family is over there and things are going to happen," a Somerville man who immigrated in 1963 said, adding, "I fear the soldiers are somewhere down the line going to shoot people...
...their puppets. The Polish workers are simply the latest victims to be sacrificed in the name of Soviet statism. Whether or not the Soviet Union intervenes militarily is unimportant at this point; the USSR will probably only refrain from doing so if the martial-law regime succeeds in its crackdown...