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...problem in the months ahead because its foreign policy is closely aligned with the Soviet Union's. Yet four Communists hold posts in the 44-member Cabinet of President François Mitterrand, an outspoken foe of Soviet imperialism who wasted no time in denouncing the declaration of martial law in Poland. While Communist Boss Georges Marchais parroted Moscow and Warsaw, blaming Solidarity for "overbidding," the Communist ministers had little choice but to endorse Mitterrand's strong criticism of the Polish move if they wanted to stay in the government. Grudgingly, they agreed...
While the imposition of martial law in Poland has been resoundingly denounced by many leading Eurocommunists, the crackdown has failed to elicit the same kind of emotional response from Europe's pacifists. Accustomed to portraying the U.S. as the chief threat to world peace, leaders of the antinuclear crusade have been confounded by General Wojciech Jaruzelski's move against the Polish workers that had evidently been ordered by Moscow. In all of Europe, only a few thousand have demonstrated against Poland's imposition of martial law, although more than 2 million people had turned out for anti...
...Poland as anyone else," Eppler told TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers. "The events were a shock, but the shock was overshadowed by the very emotional reaction of the Reagan Administration . . . If there is any nation in the world that should not show too much indignation at military governments and martial laws, it is the U.S.-the world's biggest backer of military regimes...
...Britain the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament condemned martial law in Poland. Its leaders, however, are unwilling to take stronger action, because they do not want to side with the U.S. Says Bruce Kent, the C.N.D. head: "We will come in with the Americans when they will treat Turkey, Haiti and El Salvador the way they are treating Poland." By far the strongest condemnation of the events in Poland was issued by the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council, which had been one of the most effective peace groups that organized protests against the deployment of U.S. missiles. The council conceded that...
...protest the brutal breaking of workers' strikes by the police and army, the shooting of people, beatings, the internment of many thousands of people in prisons and camps." With those searing words, more than 100 prominent Polish intellectuals and artists last week denounced the martial law regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski in a petition sent to the nation's parliament and Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Roman Catholic primate...