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...plan for labor-government cooperation, a social-economic council, was categorically rejected by the government on Oct. 16. Whatever form it takes, a national unity effort may be the country's last hope for peaceful accommodation. High Polish officials concede that the alternative could be a declaration of martial law. This would involve imposing military control over key sectors of the economy, local administration and law enforcement. But most authorities still hoped to avoid that drastic step, since it carried with it the danger of violent civil strife and Warsaw Pact intervention. Referring to the bloody suppression...
...around the assassination of Anwar Sadat was dense with fatal ironies. In martial finery, the Nobel Peace prizewinner sat admiring his nation's annual celebration of force; it was the anniversary of the 1973 day when Egypt plunged across the Suez Canal to break Israel's Bar Lev Line. Now death jumped out of his beloved army's line of march...
...most Egyptians, the first indication that something was amiss came when television transmission from the parade broke off. With martial music playing in the background, peaceful scenes of Egyptian villages flashed onto the screen. Finally an announcer told the viewers that the President had left the parade. By that time, the toll from the attack stood at five killed and 28 wounded, including four Americans. Sadat was in the hospital in a coma, blood gushing from his mouth. Bullets and shrapnel had ripped into the left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would...
Putting on a football uniform for the Black Knights of West Point isn't all that different from playing for other schools that take the game seriously. Cadets don't see themselves as special warriors or defenders of the nation's martial pride. "In practice or on the field they just put on the helmets and play, nothing unusual about that," says Army coach Ed Cavanaugh...
Many Western experts doubted that the Soviet message meant that an invasion was imminent. But it was unclear what "radical steps" Moscow expected the Poles to take. Short of declaring martial law, a drastic event that could cause a massive civil uprising, Polish authorities could presumably start suppressing Solidarity's publications, banning union meetings and even arresting people accused of "anti-Soviet" attacks. All of these acts have in fact already occurred in scattered instances. But in the present atmosphere, any case of local repression could balloon into a major confrontation...