Word: martially
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Those hopes were dashed early Sunday morning, when Polish security troops raided Solidarity's Warsaw headquarters and arrested union officials across the nation. Within hours after the crackdown began, Polish premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of national emergency and imposed martial...
...threatened general strike--called by some members of Poland's Solidarity labor union--reportedly failed to materialize yesterday, as the country's day-old martial law regime tightened its grip on the nation...
...many, the weekend news of the imposition of martial law in Poland suggested an increased possibility of bloody, perhaps apocalyptic strife. For the men at 747 Cambridge St.--the home of the Polish American Citizens Association--the word from Warsaw, though painful, was not shocking...
...DECISION Saturday of Poland premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to impose martial law and clamp down on the free trade union Solidarity did not come as a shock. For the last 15 months, the West has heard that Poland teeters on a narrow precipice, despite having managed to resolve crisis after crisis through touch-and-go negotiations. This weekend, the Polish Communist Party finally saw its opportunity--in Jaruzelski's words--to prevent Poland from falling into "the abyss...
...untenable for the Soviets and their puppets. The Polish workers are simply the latest victims to be sacrificed in the name of Soviet statism. Whether or not the Soviet Union intervenes militarily is unimportant at this point; the USSR will probably only refrain from doing so if the martial-law regime succeeds in its crackdown...