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...Editors: People around the world are shocked by the military action to crush Solidarity [Dec. 28]. Obviously, the imposition of martial law and the ruthless action that followed were on direct orders from the Kremlin. Under such circumstances, the U.S. and the West should immediately suspend economic and food aid to Poland. Continuing it only endorses and subsidizes Communist oppression. YaWar Shahabuddin Ottawa
...armed forces commander and Premier, had declared martial law not because he was ordered to do so by the Soviet Union, but because he was seeking to ward off Soviet intervention. This view was essentially shared by the British government, which believed that the Soviets had pressed Warsaw to crush Solidarity and restore the authority of the Polish government and party, but were not directly involved in Jaruzelski's crackdown. As Eagleburger quickly learned, the Western Europeans were not yet prepared to take concerted action against Poland, though European bankers did decide last week not to lend Poland the additional...
...irony of Communism's penchant for self-inflicted violence extends in less spectacular but more persistent form to Europe. The only military operations that Soviet forces have actually carried out on the Continent since the Warsaw Pact was formed 26 years ago have been to crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring in 1968. Today a considerable portion of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and contingency planning is focused on Poland-the country where the treaty creating the alliance was signed. If Polish troops cannot stabilize the situation, their allies may move in to help. While...
...outrage against the "coercion and violation of human rights on a massive scale" and the "arbitrary power" that the Communist regime of Poland has used in its effort to crush Solidarity, Reagan sounded more certain than ever that Communism is evil, but less confident than before that it is doomed. His ambivalence is understandable. It reflects a contradiction that is inherent in Soviet-style Communism, which is not primarily a system for making sure that people are fed, housed, healthy, safe, productively engaged and free to pursue happiness...
...Czechoslovakia 13 years earlier, communications had not been totally broken, so the world was able to watch and listen in horror as Soviet tanks rolled in to crush that country's brief flowering of freedom. This time, as the armed forces seized power in Poland, the Soviets were not visibly involved, at least not yet. But the Polish Communist government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski had taken a lesson from the Prague experience: the outside world would be given little chance to learn details of the takeover...