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...month ago, according to these accounts, he was given an ultimatum by the Kremlin. Soviet representatives told him?and him alone?that the Polish party was no longer in control, that the Sejm (parliament) was running wild, and that if he did not act to restore order, the Warsaw Pact would do it for him. Though Jaruzelski emphasized last week that Poland remained a sovereign state, many people regarded the crackdown as a Soviet invasion by proxy. On Tuesday, some 30 ranking Soviet officers were observed disembarking from a military plane. Nonetheless, insofar as Western journalists could tell...
...conventional view, Moscow will intervene in Poland only in the event of a general breakdown of law-and-order, or of a direct threat to the Warsaw Pact. If they should ever do so, in the opinion of Colonel Jonathan Alford of London's Institute for Strategic Studies, the intervention would be carried out "with a very great margin of superiority." His estimate is that the Soviets would bring in as many as 35 divisions, with around 500,000 men. But Alford believes the Soviet high command has counseled caution over Poland. One reason: even on so crushing a scale...
...that we in NATO will use only conventional forces in the face of a military threat is to condemn ourselves to defeat in advance. We are currently outmanned compared with the Warsaw Pact countries. Without nuclear arms we would be very seriously outgunned as well. Under these circumstances, no one can risk not resisting the Soviets...
Although the Soviet Union did not appear to be directly behind the Polish government's actions, Soviet news agencies praised the Polish government's actions. But yesterday the British Broadcasting Corporation's Warsaw correspondent reported that the Soviet commander-in-chief of Warsaw Pact forces told Poland's leaders that unless they restored order, the Soviets would...
...unexpected leniency was immediately assailed at home and abroad. Opposition Member of Parliament Brian Bamford described the release as "scandalous" and insisted that it would "add fuel to suspicions about South Africa's involvement." The U.S. State Department drew attention to a 1978 pact between seven major industrialized nations that would cut air flights to countries that harbor hijackers. As expected, the loudest protests came from Seychelles President Albert René. After forlornly requesting extradition of the raiders, he asked the United Nations to conduct an inquiry and charged again that Pretoria had organized the coup. That accusation...