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"How many times must we stand on the brink of the precipice? What assurances do we have that one day we shall not fall into the abyss?" Even as he posed that grave question before Warsaw's parliament last week, Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski once again implored his fellow Poles...
For the Soviets the consequences could be disastrous. First of all, there would be the strong possibility of armed resistance from the Polish population and even from units of the conscript-based armed forces. "The Poles will not stand aside as the Czechs did in 1968," predicts a Bonn Kremlinologist...
As of Palm Sunday, the big red machine had not yet rolled across the Polish border, so for the time being at least the world was breathing easier. In fact, there has been easier international breathing for over a week now, ever since April 7, when Leonid Brezhnev, his chest...
This is not to say that the Soviets have announced the curtailment of their troop maneuvers simply because the Poles are showing signs of becoming their own oppressors. To the contrary; many Poles seem to grow more obstreperous by the day, to the point that Lech Walesa, whose eyes gleamed...
Given all this, there ought to be less puzzlement than there is about the Soviet decision to call a halt to Soyuz '81 after leading the world to believe that an invasion was at hand. One theory has it that the Soviets originally made a decision to intervene, and...