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Loofbourrow described the article as "rabidly anti-communistic" and said that the ambassador mentions Soviet backing for the crackdown and subsequent martial law regime...
...Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late Tommy Dorsey's band, dreamed up the project shortly after the imposition of martial law. He rejects suggestions that a television spectacular, however heartfelt, was an inappropriate response to military repression. Says Wick: "To remain passive is a bummer...
...invasion of Afghanistan. Pressure from the NATO allies, from pragmatists in the State Department and from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were not eager for a new arms race, led the Administration to begin negotiations on European missiles in November-and to continue them despite the imposition of martial law in Poland...
...said, "The situation in Poland casts a long and dark shadow" across the whole range of relations. True enough. But so does the situation in Afghanistan. And in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Cuba and the U.S.S.R. itself, all of which are under less blatant but hardly less brutal forms of martial law. The very nature of the Soviet system and the exercise of Soviet power cast a long, dark shadow across U.S. policy. So far linkage has been just another word in the vocabulary the Administration has used to curse that darkness...
...making. The independent-minded Italians have been at odds with the Kremlin ever since they criticized the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The quarrel escalated into open conflict last Dec. 30, when the P.C.I., headed by Enrico Berlinguer, published a resolution denouncing the imposition of martial law in Poland and declaring Soviet-style Communism to be an "exhausted" force. Last week, after the P.C.I.'s Central Committee overwhelmingly approved that resolution, the Soviet party daily Pravda unleashed an attack of almost unprecedented ferocity...