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While the possibility still remained that the Soviets might use military force to bring the Poles to heel, Olszowski suggested another tactic that Moscow might very well employ: drastically reducing aid and trade, which would leave Poland's crippled economy completely paralyzed. "The Soviet Union can cope without imports...
A far easier way to force the Poles back into line would be the exercise of economic muscle. As a senior British official puts it: "It is economic, and not military, war that the Kremlin appears to have decided to wage against Poland." Indeed, Moscow can exert almost irresistible economic...
But the squeeze tactic could cause I more problems than it solves. Says one I U.S. State Department expert: "Of all ithe approaches to conquer the Poles, that has to be one of the most ludicrous. All it will do is make the Poles even more angry. It will increase...
Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor...
Kabalinski reserved his harshest statements for the Polish government. In his New York Times piece, he argued that "the crux of the problem is the government's failure to understand that a heavy-handed approach has always hardened the stubborn Poles instead of making them more compliant."