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Polish Premier Jaruzelski, saying he acted too hastily in withdrawing martial law, puts the Polish people on "disciplinary probation--the type with teeth...
...books, when they are written, may be titled The Longest Campaign or One Primary Too Many. If there is a martial ring to this Washington waggery, there is also an alarming truth. Political guerrillas for the 1984 election have assembled. They began probing ten months ago, a full year before Jimmy Carter did the same in his early-bird run at the presidency and nearly two years ahead of the traditional campaign kickoff. The upcoming presidential race will be the longest, most televised, most computerized, most numbing electoral spectacle in history. It could also be the most expensive, exceeding...
Life under martial law: hard times and disillusion
...other. The ban on public gatherings, for example, will be lifted, but the penal code has now been amended to make it illegal to "incite public unrest." The punishment for the new crime: up to three years in prison. In addition, it is illegal to "collect" antistate publications; under martial law it was only illegal to print or distribute them. Similarly, the routine tapping of telephone conversations will be suspended. But the government will retain the right to tap phone calls at its discretion, and is now permitted, for the first time, to use tape recordings of those conversations...
...number of Polish factories will be released from the military supervision that has proliferated since the declaration of martial law. But the same disciplinary rules will continue to prevail, meaning that managers can fire workers without appeal, and that workers cannot resign without management approval. The government also plans to review managers of state enterprises, top government officials and officials in schools of higher learning for both professional competence and "moral character...