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...party executes what Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski called a "purge of opportunists, careerists and immoral people." Totally discredited in the eyes of the public, the party now has an estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized in August 1980. Since martial law was declared, there have been signs that the party would reorganize around a relatively small number of hard-core bureaucrats, the same people who resisted party liberalization and fought Solidarity at every turn. In the long run, there is little doubt that the party will reimpose its control over...
Jaruzelski last week summoned eight West European diplomats to a 1½-hr. meeting at which he defended his martial law decision as the only cure for anarchy. Accusing Solidarity "extremists" of "haughtiness," he cryptically suggested that some of the interned union leaders might be exiled to the West. The general also attacked the U.S. economic sanctions as "interference" in Polish affairs and denied that he had acted on Soviet orders. Even as he spoke, however, foreign ministers of the European Community were meeting in Brussels, where they adopted a strong resolution condemning martial law in Poland and blaming...
TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik was in Gdansk on Dec. 13 when martial law was declared. He has watched General Jaruzelski try to subdue the country and has seen the Poles react and resist. Shortly after leaving Poland last week, Hornik filed this report on what life is like in Warsaw in the wake of the crackdown...
After four weeks of martial law, the initial shock has worn off, but the reality of what has happened is finally sinking in. Warsaw has been transformed from one of the liveliest cities in Europe to one of the dullest and most depressing. The theaters are closed, the cafés usually empty and the streets practically devoid of traffic after dark. But worse than these obvious signs is the apparent death of the spirit. Poland is a nation of individuals. The most ordinary worker wears his cap just so and has his own look. Now, when you walk through...
...very short period, Poland's martial law rulers have managed to create an insidious mistrust in their country. The generals have succeeded in crushing the organization known as Solidarity and damaging the solidarity of the people of Poland. But the deep feeling of being one nation, which was ignited by Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland in 1979 and that kept the authorities at bay for 16 months after August 1980, has not been entirely extinguished...