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...wake of a sweeping government clampdown on the 15-month-old Solidarity Union movement and the imposition of martial law, the analysts said scenarios ranging from all-out violent confrontation to grudging but peaceful acceptance of the new measures all remain possibilities...
...Harvard analysts reacted with dismay and pessimism to reports early this morning that Poland's Communist leaders had declared martial law and initiated a long-awaited crackdown on the country's Solidarity free trade union movement...
...Jaruzelski declares martial law and says Solidarity leaders would be interned in what he calls an effort to save Poland from "the abyss...
...announced troop deployment, coming in the wake of a Central Committee threat to declare martial law, had ominous implications. So did the crescendo of official warnings against carrying out the planned national strike. Early in the week, authorities declared that Solidarity's walkout "would be met with actions commensurate with the threat." A group of party hard-liners raised the chilling possibility of "shedding fraternal blood." Moreover, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that "counterrevolutionary" forces were using the strike to "blackmail" the Warsaw regime...
...general asked the deputies to pass a resolution "firmly demanding the immediate halt of all strikes." If that call went unheeded, Jaruzelski warned, the government would resort to "extraordinary means of action for the protection of citizens and the state." He seemed to refer to imposing martial law. The legislators responded with a cautiously worded resolution calling for "an end to all protest actions" and warning of possible "legal measures" against disorder. In addition, the Premier announced a government reshuffle that brought five new ministers and a Deputy Premier into his Cabinet. Two of the new appointees were nonCommunists...