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...certain irony when the sanctions announced by Reagan last week were so mild that they amounted to a gnat's bite. Even more than Carter's reprisals, the new sanctions were symbolic, not substantive; Reagan may have conveyed the Administration's moral outrage at the crackdown on freedom in Poland, but his measures will have almost no impact. And by acting without support from Western allies...
Finally, if Reagan's initial actions appeared too ineffectual to many, others believed that his verbal responses to the crackdown suitably combined righteous anger with hints of flexibility and a new sense of pragmatism about the realities of foreign policy. For example, in an NBC television interview last week, Reagan emphasized that his actions were not meant to encourage the Poles to "start manning the barricades." Added Reagan: "Talk of that kind led the Hungarians years ago to take to the streets with little more than sticks and stones against Soviet tanks. We didn't want a repeat...
...Poland into a Western-style democracy. As things now stand, the Pope simply hopes that Poland can evolve into a kind of Yugoslav-style Communist state. Some diplomats in the Vatican believe Jaruzelski has the makings of a Tito. The Vatican's strategy thus is to approach the crackdown as an internal Polish matter, and to seek to avoid making it an international crisis...
Despite his earlier position on registration, Reagan feared that abolishing the program would project an image of American weakness at a time when the United States is pressuring its allies to condemn the Soviet Union for backing the Polish crackdown, administration and Congressional sources said this week...
...decision, announced by presidential counselor Edwin Meese III, apparently comes in response to the military crackdown in Poland and reportedly received the backing of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig...