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Last week President Reagan sent Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead to Warsaw. He started negotiating with General Jaruzelski to lift the economic sanctions levied in 1981. The aim was to end Poland's nearly six years of political isolation...
Poland's political reconciliation with the West had picked up speed a week before, when Poland's General Jaruzelski visited Italy and was received with full diplomatic honors. Italian industrialists pledged to invest several billion dollars during the next several years...
...everyone had forgotten about the coup d'etat Jaruzelski had engineered and about his violent crack-down against Solidarnosc. At the time, Western nations reacted to such outrageous act firmly, isolating Poland politically and levying economic sanctions...
Indeed, the Pope turned down Jaruzelski's offer to restore diplomatic relations with the Vatican and brought up Poland's human rights record. But Jaruzelski pronounced the meeting at least a partial success. Said he: "Two Poles must always understand each other...
During his visit to Italy, Jaruzelski also met with Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli. The very fact of the meetings was a victory for Jaruzelski, who is striving to end Poland's isolation and re-establish financial ties with the West...