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There were no photographers on hand when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stepped onto the tarmac at Warsaw's Okecie Airport last week. The official Polish press agency reported only that "high party officials" had been there to greet the distinguished visitor. The low-key arrival of one of...
Some diplomatic observers wondered about the timing of the arms-sale decision, which was made with seeming haste at a National Security Council meeting shortly before Haig flew off to Peking. At the moment, the Soviets are intensely concerned about liberalizing trends in Poland. A new U.S.China accord might well...
When Polish Communist Party Secretary Stanislaw Kania took the floor last week to open an emergency Central Committee plenum in Warsaw, he faced one of the gravest challenges to confront the leader of a Soviet client state. Three days earlier, the Polish party had received its latest warning from a...
The Central Committee meeting closed with a pledge to address the Soviets' key concerns. While affirming the commitment to the "process of renewal," the committee's final resolution promised a "re-evaluation of journalistic cadres" -signaling a probable purge of journalists -and called for the forces of public...
Burdened by sporadic worker walkouts and bumbling bureaucratic mismanagement, Poland's economy is in a shambles. Industrial production is down 10% from a year ago, and coal exports to the West, one of the country's most important sources of trade revenue, are off 29%. As a result...