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...session was not without tensions. Chain-smoking throughout the meeting, Schmidt appeared on the defensive. He claimed that the American press had misrepresented the West German view of the Soviet role in the Polish crackdown, and noted that a letter he had sent to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last month was proof that Bonn believed in Moscow's involvement. "If one read only American newspapers," he told Reagan, "you would think the U.S.-German alliance was dead." But Schmidt also made clear that he did not think the sanctions against Moscow would work, and thus he did not plan...
...crackdown in Poland also influenced two long-debated U.S. foreign policy decisions. Reagan last week approved a high-level mission to Peking that will present the Chinese with an intriguing offer: U.S. agreement not to sell Taiwan a line of sophisticated fighter planes, in exchange for Peking's condemnation of the Soviet role in Poland (see following story). Reagan also decided to continue draft registration for 18-year-old males. President Carter ordered the resumption of registration in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a move that was roundly denounced by Candidate Reagan. At the time, Reagan insisted...
...inform the Chinese that the U.S. has decided to refrain from selling Taiwan any fighter jets more advanced or sophisticated than the F-5Es it currently has. At the same time, the U.S. will urge the Chinese to end their deafening silence about Soviet involvement in the Polish crackdown. State Department officials involved with the trip insist that there is no formal quid pro quo. But some observers found it hard to believe that the two items on the mission's agenda were not integrally linked...
...membership in the suspended Solidarity union federation. He deplored the deaths of workers killed in clashes with troops-17, according to authorities, although unofficial estimates range as high as 200. Glemp also condemned the prolonged internment of thousands of workers and intellectuals who had been rounded up in the crackdown. Said he: "We would not like to see a society divided into the authorities, who order and coerce, and subjects, who are silent and who hate...
...week's end a number of prominent Polish intellectuals and cultural figures came forward to denounce the crackdown in an open letter to Jaruzelski. "The introduction of martial law," they declared, "was aimed at depriving society of its voice and subjugating the nation to military dictatorship. History proves, however, that the Polish nation will not submit to such a fate." Originally signed by eight people, including Violinist Wanda Wilkomirska, Writer Marian Brandys and Historian Stefan Kieniewicz, the document was being circulated in Warsaw to gain additional support...