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During the dark days after General Wojciech Jaruzelski's imposition of martial law last December, a defiant slogan appeared on walls and in underground publications: "The winter is yours, the spring will be ours." Last week, as tulips bloomed in Lazienki Park and the sun streamed down on the reconstructed facades of Warsaw's Old Town, thousands of Poles tried to turn that threat into a reality. Citizens who had chafed, sullenly and silently, under military rule for five months took to the streets in a nationwide affirmation of their disapproval of Jaruzelski's regime. Chanting "Down...
...Correspondents Bruce van Voorst and Johanna McGeary for their cover story "Arming the World" (Oct. 26, 1981). The esteemed Robert Capa gold medal for photographic reporting was awarded to TIME'S Rudi Frey for his intimate coverage of Poland's Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law. The Olivier Rebbot award for magazine photography from abroad went to Nakram Gadel Karim for his photos in TIME of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
Jaruzelski eases martial law, but Solidarity stages a protest
...surprising outbreak of protest, by far the largest demonstration against the regime since martial law was declared last Dec. 13, was hardly a morale booster for Poland's junta leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He and his comrades had hoped to blunt just that sort of anger. Earlier in the week, Poland's Interior Ministry announced that sufficient progress had been made in "the normalization of public life" to justify lifting some of the more onerous martial-law restrictions. The nightly curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. would be suspended (a concession that the protest may well have...
...Washington have been strained as the result of what the Reagan Administration sees as an insufficiently firm attitude toward Moscow. One oft cited example is Bonn's lack of support for economic sanctions against the Soviet Union in the wake of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's declaration of martial law in Poland...