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Poland's military bosses call Poznan their model city. While the workers of Gdansk, Warsaw and Katowice resisted, rioting and striking, after martial law was declared on Dec. 13, not a ripple of unrest was reported in the industrial center 175 miles west of the capital. Indeed, Zdzislaw Rozwalak, the leader of the local Solidarity chapter, had promptly furnished the state radio with a statement of support for martial law and condemned the union's behavior. Thus the regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski last week confidently chose Poznan as the showcase site for the first officially organized foreign press...
...regime. Not only did it belie government claims that Solidarity's rank and file were disassociating themselves from the alleged excesses of their leaders, it also undercut a carefully orchestrated series of gestures intended to convince the world that all was well after five weeks of martial...
Over the previous weekend, for example, Polish authorities had ended their censorship of foreign press dispatches. Telephone links were restored within, but not between, major cities. At a Warsaw press conference last week, Deputy Premier Jerzy Ozdowski even expressed vague hopes that martial law might be lifted "tomorrow or by Feb. 1." The skepticism of Western observers seemed to be confirmed at week's end when Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban declared that martial law would last until "all fatal phenomena"-in other words, all opposition-ended...
...Warsaw's "normalization" campaign, apparently, was to sway Western European opinion and prevent the NATO governments from joining with the U.S. in denouncing martial law and imposing economic sanctions. But as the NATO foreign ministers assembled in Brussels last week, the generals' strategy had clearly failed. It did not take U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig's dismissal of the Polish gestures as "phony moderation" to convince the Europeans; their intelligence reports contradicted the rosy announcements from Warsaw...
With so much at stake, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig this week flies to the Middle East on a trip that was delayed last month by the imposition of martial law in Poland. His visit to Israel is also a fence-mending mission, an effort to repair some of the damage caused by Israel's de facto annexation last month of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. When the Reagan Administration criticized the Israeli action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin lashed out at Washington, accusing the U.S. of treating Israel like...