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...bomb near the Turkish Airlines counter at Paris' Orly Airport, leaving 55 wounded and seven dead. During the past decade, 36 Turkish envoys have been assassinated abroad, including four in the U.S. In Turkey the Armenians were murdering several Turks each day until the 1980 imposition of martial law. The guerrilla groups tend to be highly professional: the best-known of them, the Marxist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), created in 1975, was trained in the Beirut camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O.'s pullout from Lebanon last summer may have forced...
...back as the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan pledged to keep international politics out of the grain trade. It was a hard promise to fulfill. Under pressure from U.S. farmers, he removed the partial embargo in April 1981. But that December, the White House saw the imposition of martial law in Poland as reason enough to bar grain negotiations with the Soviets. This April, though martial law was still in effect, the President gave the green light to begin the negotiations that resulted in the grain deal. Last week's successful talks coincided with another sign that Washington is ready...
Indeed, the lifting of martial law will have a negligible effect on most Poles. Earlier in the week, the Sejm approved a constitutional amendment that gave the government substantial new powers. The Premier was granted the authority to declare a state of emergency whenever necessary, and the definition of "antistate activities" was broadened. In addition parliament passed several measures that would apply during a 29-month "transition" period. It set the official work week at 48 hours, eliminating the free Saturdays won by Solidarity. It also gave the government the right to force people who quit their jobs to take...
...attempt to lure out of hiding the 60 to 80 Solidarity activists who went underground when martial law was declared, the government promised not to prosecute any activists who turned themselves in before Oct. 31. But Zbigniew Bujak, former director of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, declared that the union's leadership would wait for a full, unconditional amnesty. Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released from detention last November, said that the government's new measures were worse than martial law and would only "dig a wider gulf between the government and the governed...
Jaruzelski hopes that the government's moves will persuade the U.S. and other Western nations to lift economic sanctions and help Poland avoid defaulting on its $26 billion foreign debt. Although Washington had made ending martial law a precondition for lifting sanctions, President Reagan reacted to last week's news with caution. "We're going to go by deeds, not words," he told a White House press conference. "What we want to be on guard for is having a cosmetic change in which they replace martial law with equally onerous regulations...