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...party's increasing disarray prevented it from either smashing Solidarity or reaching an understanding with the union. Finally the regime's only stable and disciplined institution-the military-had to step in and do what the party itself could not. As one West European diplomat in Warsaw puts it, "Solidarity had become the country, and the country had said, 'Enough!' There was no way to dominate it except through martial...
Except for the outcome, the attack on Ray resembled an assault last November on another U.S. diplomat in Paris, Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Christian Chapman. But Chapman had been lucky enough to spot his Arab assailant in time and had escaped a fusillade of shots by ducking behind his car. Security for U.S. embassy personnel had been strengthened after the attempt on Chapman's life. But Ray, who was one of four assistant military attaches, did not have enough rank in the 400-member embassy hierarchy to rate the special protection of a French police car that...
...austerity-minded (he calls himself a conservative Social Democrat). In foreign affairs, he is expected to do nothing to alter the foundation of his nation's policy: its close working relationship with the Soviet Union, an intimacy that has made "Finlandization" an operative word in every diplomat's vocabulary. During his campaign, Koivisto said that "stable and confidential relations with the Soviet Union have been and will be the central element of Finland's foreign policy." In Finland, no serious and prudent candidate could make any other pledge...
...American diplomat is another victim of terrorism
...they sent to Bonn. Martial law, he said, was necessary to prevent the outbreak within "a matter of weeks" of a civil war that would have provoked a Soviet invasion. Stern Publisher Henri Nannen, who has known Rakowski for twelve years, considered his explanation sincere, and an American diplomat described him as a "man of integrity." In contrast, a respected West German analyst notes that Rakowski has a "weakness for ambition" and "always knows which way the wind blows." One British expert points out that ultimately, Rakowski was always a loyal Communist...