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Poland. Haig argues that forcing U.S. banks to call a default on their loans to Poland would distress the allies without helping to moderate the behavior of Warsaw's martial-law regime. Weinberger considers default a potentially usable option. Says one State Department official: "Cap wants to engage in economic warfare. He wants to hurt the other...
That call for springlike optimism was a tall order in a country where two months of wintry martial rule has crushed the independent Solidarity labor movement, put more than 5,000 of its members and sympathizers in detention camps, clamped severe restrictions on personal liberty, and left at least ten dead and hundreds injured. The archbishops were well aware of that unrelieved bleakness. Indeed, they spent much of their week in the Vatican briefing the Polish-born Pontiff on the dim prospects for his homeland's future. As Glemp described it during an emotional sermon at Rome...
Glemp, 53, the plain-spoken son of an Inowroclaw salt miner, is well prepared for that task. The holder of doctorates in Roman and canon law, he has a shrewd political sense that belies his squat, jug-eared physical appearance. Glemp apparently intends to pursue a cautious policy under martial law, putting moral pressure on the regime but avoiding inflammatory gestures that might incite violence and provoke a Soviet invasion...
Glemp pins his hopes on a peaceful dialogue between the regime and the outlawed union. Polish authorities have indicated that they are ready to begin serious talks soon. But the key figure in any such negotiations, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, has been held virtually incommunicado since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Walesa, who has reportedly been held at four locations near Warsaw, has managed to smuggle out several messages, although their authenticity cannot be confirmed. The Warsaw branch of Solidarity's underground last week published what it said was a letter that Walesa had scrawled...
...Jaruzelski regime, meanwhile, continued to move against its opponents through its harsh system of military and civil justice. In the longest prison sentence handed out for a martial law violation so far, Ewa Kubasiewicz was given ten years in jail for organizing a strike at a Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity...