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Other more likely scenarios include either the continuation of martial law until resistance is crushed or a decision by the Soviet Union to resolve the crisis itself with a Hungary-like invasion, he said...
...Poland's military/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing martial law and immediately appeals to his people's sense of nationalism to curb their nationalist aspirations. His appeals to the "Fatherland" evoke memories of the formerly martial Fatherland to Poland's west and provide a neat mate for the martial Motherland to Poland's east. Iran's religious/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing harsher measures than his military/political predecessor...
...days of Poland's state of emergency in Gdansk and Warsaw, operating as best he could under a communications blackout, tight censorship and restrictions on travel. Last week he flew from Warsaw to Paris, where he wrote this firsthand account of life under General Jaruzelski 's martial-law regime. His report...
...interest this year, had to put up an additional $500 million in debt service charges before the end of the year. The Warsaw government scrambled to raise foreign exchange to make the interest payment, but by early December it was able to assemble only $150 million. Immediately after martial law was declared, Marian Minkiewicz, president of Bank Handlowy, the nation's foreign trade bank, sent wires to 23 major commercial creditors pleading for a short-term loan to keep Poland from toppling into technical default...
...courageous one. Jaruzelski's assurance that in modern times troubles like those in Poland need not lead to war has a ring of unintended irony in the wake of his decision two weeks ago to proclaim martial law-"a state of war," as it is called in the Polish constitution. Jaruzelski got his thankless, and perhaps hopeless, job heading the party because he was, and still is, Defense Minister and chief of the armed forces. The absurd logic of his appointment is now complete: he has threatened war against his own people...