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...been coming Of course we'd all been expecting it, but there had been so many crises survived...Dreams, usually not spoken for fear of having to eat the words, but dreams nonetheless that perhaps this was the start of some peaceful evolution to a human government. If martial law served any good end, it was to remind the world what almost all of us knew that the soviet system was impermeable to decency, incontrovertible in its evil. In the same way, Sontag's formulation of "the essentially despotic nature of the Communist system (that is, a country any country...
...national hero than the arrival of a troubled neighbor. Standing on a red carpet at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...Kremlin's leaders had a special reason to applaud this Soviet-trained officer: in their eyes he had saved Poland for Communism by crushing a dangerous "counterrevolution." Visiting Moscow for the first time since the declaration of martial law last December, Jaruzelski received a strong endorsement of his actions and the promise of substantial Soviet assistance in rebuilding Poland's shattered economy...
...instant celebrity last year as he waved his pistol while holding hos tage nearly all of the Cortes' 350 mem bers. Also on trial are Major General Al fonso Armada Comyn, 61, King Juan Carlos' longtime military tutor; Lieut. General Jaime Milans del Bosch, 66, who declared martial law in Valencia on the night of the coup; and Major General Luis Torres Rojas, 62, who is accused of trying to enlist a Madrid-based division to sup port the attempt. If found guilty, they face sentences of up to 30 years...
...dence is Tejero's popularity with the extreme right wing. His supporters circulate Tejero key rings, Tejero posters and even bogus Tejero bank notes. Ironically, the future of Spanish democracy may again be in the hands of officers: the 16 military judges presiding over the court-martial. A lenient sentence would outrage many Spaniards. But a harsh one could provoke a dangerous right-wing backlash - and possibly even another coup attempt...