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Aquino, under death sentence in the Philippines, spent seven years in jail there for his political opposition to Marcos's martial law regime before being allowed to come in 1980 to the United States for health reasons. He has been at Harvard for the last year and a half...
...remains to be seen what effect such admonitions can have on a regime that cited protests, rebellion and impending civil war as its reasons for declaring martial law in the first place on Dec. 13. That argument could easily be dismissed as the rationalization of a cynical and brutal Communist regime. But the view that Solidarity went too far has been echoed by some respected Western observers and commentators...
...Change, too, has its limits," charged Bundestag Member Freimut Duve, a member of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. "Lech Walesa should have recognized them long ago." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stated that martial law "isn't bad" if it prevents civil war. George Kennan, a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, suggested that Poland's latest tragedy might have been avoided if only Solidarity had been content "to rest for a while on its laurels" instead of pushing the "semiparalyzed Communist government" to the wall...
Last week, as the martial law regime decreed the biggest consumer price hikes in Poland's postwar history and Jaruzelski prepared to outline his future programs before parliament, Solidarity activists operating abroad angrily defended the union from charges of extremism. Said Severin Blumstein, 35, a member of a Paris-based group of Solidarity exiles: "It's amazing! To have democratic countries question the right of other countries to that very same democracy they take for granted strikes me as a cynical viewpoint...
...stable and disciplined institution-the military-had to step in and do what the party itself could not. As one West European diplomat in Warsaw puts it, "Solidarity had become the country, and the country had said, 'Enough!' There was no way to dominate it except through martial...