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Government from taking action against the company: "The laws of the U.S. are not the laws of the whole world." Designed chiefly to punish the Soviets for their role in the imposition of martial law in Poland, the pipeline sanctions were extended in June to include foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms and foreign companies holding licenses for U.S. technology. But instead of hurting the Soviets, the sanctions seem to be playing right into Moscow's hands. Observed the French newspaper Le Monde: "Now Mr. Brezhnev can gloat. Less than three months after all that hugging and embracing...
...Walesa, the leader of the suspended Solidarity labor union, Poland's Primate outlined three conditions for "national reconciliation": the revival of free trade-union activity, the release of some 600 Poles who remain in detention camps and amnesty for the estimated 2,000 people convicted of violations of martial law and a firm date for a visit by Pope John Paul II to his native land...
...Black Madonna," the Roman Catholic nation's holiest shrine. As the government prepared to clamp down this week on demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the creation of the independent union Solidarity, Glemp seized the occasion to issue one of his strongest statements against the martial-law regime imposed by General Wojciech Jaruzelski eight months...
Since the imposition of martial law almost nine months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...
...martial-law regime has tried to pin the blame for Poland's weak economic performance on U.S. trade sanctions, which were imposed after the military crackdown last December. The sanctions have indeed hurt Poland indirectly by holding up agreement on rescheduling payment of Poland's $27 billion foreign debt. The sanctions have also choked off the flow of Western capital that will be needed if the economy is to revive over the next four years. But, as one Polish intellectual observed: "I never hear anyone on the bus grumbling about Reagan's sanctions. I do hear people...