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...dilemma apparently confronting the United States in some other developing nations the situation in the Philippines does not require supporting a right-wing-dictator to avoid a left-wing dictator. The U.S. can and should use its leverage to encourage a transition away from the decade-old pattern of martial law toward a restoration of democracy and human rights safeguards...
...ended a bizarre siege in which members of a selfstyled, inchoate Polish "Independent Home Army" imposed a brief reign of terror upon their country's local embassy. The terrorists' demands during the siege were hopelessly quixotic: curtailment of martial law in Poland, the release of all political prisoners held in that beleaguered country, and "an end to repression of the Polish "people" by the military regime run by General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...assault marked the first time that Communist Poland's martial-law troubles have spilled over into violent protest in the West. It gave Poland's government an opportunity to vilify the suspended Solidarity trade union, only a week after a harsh crackdown on tens of thousands of Polish demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate the second anniversary of Solidarity's founding. Said Warsaw's Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu: "Solidarity extremists are now switching, as proved by numerous facts, to terrorist activities." But the terrorist action was energetically denounced by spokesmen for Solidarity, who disclaimed...
Despite the years of martial law from 1972 to 1981, despite the political chaos that has punctuated the Philippines' brief history as a democracy, its people have a strong attachment to the democratic principles they learned from their American colonial tutors; a loyalty they demonstrated by laying down a million of their lives as both combatants and victims in the war against Japan. Marcos cites that sacrifice often, and he is right to do so; the U.S. owes the Philippines much...
...nearby city of Wroclaw, while a 22-year-old man was found dead following disturbances in Gdansk. They were Poland's first fatalities in political demonstrations since Dec. 16, when nine striking miners were shot by security forces at the Wujek colliery after the imposition of martial law. In the wake of the rioting, the government announced a major crackdown on all sources of dissent in the country. Said Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban: "Solidarity's extremists played their funeral march...