Word: diplomatized
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...Emotionally, the Soviet leaders must have wanted to intervene dozens of times in the past year," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. But the Soviets also realized the diplomatic and economic consequences would be costly: they would risk armed resistance by the proud Poles, exacerbate relations with the U.S. and Europe, affront the Third World nations they were so ardently wooing, and take on responsibility for the Polish economy...
...army strong enough? The consensus in Warsaw: not for the long haul. In physical terms, the army and the other security forces are stretched to the limit. Said one Western diplomat, "There is not one unit or piece of equipment in reserve." Most soldiers are on 18-hr, shifts. The army is not being used to suppress strikes or break up demonstrations. A tank may be used to burst through a factory gate or fire a warning shot, but it is the militia (police) who are left to do the dirty work...
...with them on foreign trips. In addition, the sale of alcololic beverages was resumed after a week of prohibition. Many factories remained closed. So did the universities and any other institutions that might prove troublesome. Even PAX, the pro-government organization of Catholic laymen, was dissolved. Observed an American diplomat of Poland's military rulers: "They have pulled it off with stunning efficiency. But there is an irony here. What they have succeeded in doing is to shut Poland down, to bring it to a halt. The real challenge is just the opposite, to get the country moving again...
...indeed be primarily words. Through the early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread the fine line between taking positions that would incite violence and bloodshed and perhaps [Soviet] intervention on the one hand, and avoid positions which would acquiesce in the repression of Polish reform on the other...
...Urquhart, a Briton who has worked closely with him. Pérez is often compared to U Thant, the quiet, self-effacing Burmese who served in the U.N.'s highest office from 1961 to 1971. Unlike Waldheim, the Peruvian does not have a reputation as a workaholic. Still, diplomats welcome his familiarity with the international organization's long and often byzantine corridors. "He is a very good diplomat who knows the U.N. from the inside," says Urquhart. Even though Sadruddin was the first choice of the U.S. delegation, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick described Pérez as a "strong...