Word: martially
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...soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square. The little parade passes by rusting cars, yelping dogs, gawkers peering out of their doorways while washing their...
...twin events had promised to be the most important since the declaration of martial law on Dec. 13: a major speech by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the country's ruler, and the first meeting of the party's 200-man Central Committee since the emergency began. Poles hoped that the general and the committee would give them some clear signals about the nation's future and perhaps even announce a recovery program for an economy that was growing weaker day by day. But the expectations came to nothing, and that in itself was significant. By doing so little...
...circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...
...first time since Mitterrand's election last May that the leaders of France and West Germany felt compelled to focus such attention on their common stand. Their solemn communique blamed Soviet "pressure and concourse" for events in Poland, and called for the repeal of martial law, the release of union members and talks between the government, the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. Said the declaration: "The repressive measures taken by the Polish leadership under pressure from, and backed by, the Soviet Union, constitute a violation of human rights and of the Helsinki Final Act, and place a heavy mortgage...
...stated purpose of the roundup was to test the effectiveness of the martial law rule, imposed on Dec. 13 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The result, admitted the national press agency PAP, was "not as good as it might be." More direct was the U.S. State Department, which branded Operation Calm "a mockery of all recent Polish government statements to the effect that life is beginning to return to normal in Poland...