Word: martialled
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...even after waiting for hours, Poles might enter a store and find it cleaned out. Meat was in particularly short supply, especially the pork that Poles consider to be a staple of their diet. In Warsaw, just before the imposition of martial law, the entire stock of one butcher consisted of half a dozen large salami sausages, which housewives eagerly bought in slices. The hooks that in better times had held dangling sides of beef and pork were being used by one Warsaw butcher with a green thumb as supports for a philodendron that was growing across the ceiling...
...exhausted. The pressures on him and the union were becoming unbearable; martial law, not yet imposed, was only days away. He had been awakened at 4 a.m. by a Solidarity delegation from the city of Radom, which warned him it was going to call a general strike that would affect an important armaments factory. Walesa was furious to find such a strike was being considered, and the men had argued for hours. At breakfast, he made peace with the delegation, which agreed to put off the strike. "lam absolutely finished and run down," he said later. "I have more problems...
...leaders of the Western world were preoccupied with a common question last week: How should they respond to the Polish government's declaration of martial law and crackdown on the independent trade union movement Solidarity? In a Christmas address to the American people, President Reagan proposed a number of economic sanctions against Poland and one sweeping, symbolic gesture of support. Recalling that the Polish people were demonstrating their opposition to martial law by placing lighted candles in their windows, the President declared he would light a candle in a White House window "as a small but certain beacon...
...sanctions and planned to go ahead with their aid commitments to Poland, which include $17 million in food. The Bonn government is anxious to preserve whatever is left of détente. So it took the position that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish armed forces commander and Premier, had declared martial law not because he was ordered to do so by the Soviet Union, but because he was seeking to ward off Soviet intervention. This view was essentially shared by the British government, which believed that the Soviets had pressed Warsaw to crush Solidarity and restore the authority of the Polish...
...second week of martial law ended in Poland, the Jaruzelski government appeared to be in fairly firm control in much of the country. In a Christmas Eve address, Jaruzelski claimed that "the process of disintegration of the state has been halted, and an end has been put to anarchy." The government eased its ban on travel within Poland, restored telephone service in some provinces and quietly removed the armored personnel carriers from Warsaw's Victory Square. It also reduced the length of the curfew in the capital and in some other cities, thereby permitting people to attend midnight Mass...