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...collecting $4.5 million for the party. He heads three special task forces, including one that has had substantial impact on reducing the number of federal regulations. He sees nearly everything that goes to the President. His crisp conduct of National Security Council meetings during the initial weeks of the crackdown in Poland earned him praise from other top Administration officials. But most important, from Bush's point of view, he has won the confidence of his boss. "He is the most loyal team member that anybody could want," Reagan recently told a conservative friend...
Dozier tells his story, and the Red Brigades crackdown goes...
Allowing Warsaw and its overbearing Soviet sponsors to avoid the real and symbolic consequences of bankruptcy made it seem that the Administration was not willing to back up with substantive, tough action its tough talk about punishing those responsible for last December's military crackdown. Poland is clearly bankrupt; there is no way it can meet all of the interest payments on its outstanding $28 billion debt to Western nations and banks. With a public declaration of default, hard-liners argue, the credit of all Communist countries would be justifiably jeopardized and the failures of their economic systems exposed...
Ironically, since the crackdown against Solidarity. France has been cited in many countries as a model for the whole West to emulate. The French have poured more than five billion dollars in various forms--cash, food, consumer goods, etc.--into Poland since the imposition of martial law and the government has exerted intense diplomatic pressure, most notably through the Vatican and the Churches of other Eastern Bloc nations, on Jaruzelski's regime. And, of course, the French government's rapid condemnation of the Polish military dictatorship and of the Soviet involvement in Poland provided an unusual instance of gallic solidarity...
Loofbourrow described the article as "rabidly anti-communistic" and said that the ambassador mentions Soviet backing for the crackdown and subsequent martial law regime...