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Polish officials complain that their economic woes have been made worse by Western trade restrictions imposed after martial law was declared. Last October Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa and nine other prominent Polish opposition figures and moderate intellectuals issued an appeal to the U.S., urging President Reagan to "play a significant role" in putting the Polish economy back on track by lifting the remaining U.S. sanctions. Washington may be receptive to the plea. "Things are warming up step by step," says an Administration official. "But we have always urged caution. The Poles have often announced sweeping changes and then have failed...
...would honor the truce. Said Mitra, for his part: "Both sides won the war." He added that the negotiations had been "eased through friendship and goodwill," noting that he and the N.D.F. negotiators had been journalistic colleagues long before President Ferdinand Marcos declared war on the insurgents by imposing martial...
...dissolving the National Assembly. That was one of the major errors committed by President Marcos when he declared martial law in 1972. I was hoping that experience would not be repeated by Mrs. Aquino...
...Reagan who in 1983 labeled the Soviet Union the "focus of evil in the modern world" has held his rhetorical tongue firmly in check since then. The President who slapped sanctions on the Soviet Union in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland waited less than 24 hours after Daniloff was set free before announcing he would meet with Gorbachev in Reykjavik to ! talk about arms control...
...Jaruzelski seems to fear Solidarity as much as he does foreign condemnation -- or more. It was Solidarity's emergence as a rival to the Communist hierarchy that led to the imposition of martial law in December 1981 and a ban on union activity. By its sullen response to Solidarity's latest initiative, the government showed anew that the official party line is simply not open to question...