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Chojecki discounted reports that resistance to martial law is dying down, saying that nearly 80 per cent of workplaces are shut down, that large numbers of journalists have refused to take loyalty oaths to the government, and that there are still police patrols in the streets suppressing dissent...
...added that even in spite of martial law, "there are still uncensored publications going around in Poland." Chojecki, before coming to the United States in October of 1981, founded the independent publishing house "Nowa" and also helped establish Solidarity's printing offices...
...United States' moral outrage at this display of callous European self-interest overshadows the fact that even should the allies fall in line. America's steps would be either insignificant or counter-productive. A food embargo against Poland would no doubt cause hardship but would not end martial law the victims would be the Polish people, not their leaders. A similar embargo aimed at the Soviet Union would hurt American farmers at least as much as the Carter administration's futile ban on grain trade over Afghanistan--Reagan's paradoxical lifting of the ban proved that much...
Today is the 20th day of martial law in Poland; the 20th day of the "state of war," as the official proclamations put it. These are so far the only sincere and true words of the military regime. The Polish government is really at war with the Polish people. Because of the communications cut-off the West has to rely mostly on official announcements, specially prepared by Jaruzelski's spokesman. But even those mutilated scraps of news, mixed with deliberate disinformation, can give some idea of the dimensions of the tragedy in Poland...
...only way of restoring order in Poland is to let Polish people freely decide their fate. We can only hope that the Western governments will realize this basic fact first. Every possible means of pressure should be used by the West in order to make the Polish regime lift martial law, end the communications blackout, release the imprisoned, stop the persecutions and restore Solidarity to its previous role; every possible means should be also used in order to stop Soviet interference in Poland. Only the most decisive action on the part of the free world will be able to stop...