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...Poland between Moscow and Warsaw are extremely unpopular. Attempts to speak Russian to Poles are rudely rebuffed. And it is hazardous to remind them of Soviet influence. 'We are Poles,' they say. No matter whether it is a former Solidarity member or an official of the martial law regime, they mean just that, and are extremely proud...
Since Ronald Reagan took office, his Administration's attitude toward the Soviet Union has read like a fever chart. At the outset, he branded the Soviets as a band of liars and cheats. But in January 1982, one month after martial law was declared in Poland, he dispatched then Secretary of State Alexander Haig to Geneva to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. After Haig left office, Reagan continued his anti-Soviet rhetoric, going so far as to denounce the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in his "Darth Vader speech" last March. But even while lambasting...
...human suffering, torment and tears that have been successfully avoided?" Speaking in the code that all Poles understand, Jaruzelski was delicately implying that only his intervention had forestalled a Soviet invasion of Poland. Then, in an attempt to show his good faith, he expressed his readiness to end martial law as soon as the situation in Poland "develops successfully." This, he said, could occur at a "not distant date," though he would not be more precise. Jaruzelski gave the Pope two gifts: a breastplate of hussar's armor, from the battle in which Polish troops helped end the Turkish...
...brief airport address in the clear, strong voice of a onetime actor, John Paul evoked Christ's words in Matthew 25:36 ("I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me") to express his personal concern for those detained under martial law. "I myself am not able to visit all the sick, the imprisoned, the suffering, but I ask them to be close to me in spirit," he said. Later, in what struck many listeners as a reference to the fact that he had been asked not to include in his itinerary...
...papal entourage came to a halt in front of St. John's Cathedral, a red-brick gothic church in the Old Town that has served as a rallying point for antigovernment demonstrators since the declaration of martial law. John Paul entered the church and descended to the underground crypt to pray in front of the tomb of the late Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died...