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"Countrymen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance." With that dramatic warning, the Polish Communist Party appealed last week for an end to the labor unrest that had brought Poland to what the party itself called "the brink of economic and moral destruction." More than that, the dread...
The crisis atmosphere eased somewhat at week's end, after leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations, including Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, were summoned to Moscow for a secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties...
By the time of the Moscow meeting, the free world was in somewhat of a cold war lather. President Carter, in a strong statement, said the U.S. was "watching with growing concern the unprecedented buildup of Soviet forces along the Polish border," and urged that the Poles be allowed "to...
Based on Soviet tactics in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan last year, experts in Bonn outlined the following possible invasion scenario: the two Soviet divisions stationed in Poland would quickly try to secure strategic points, notably major airports, so that infantry and light artillery could be flown...
The military, diplomatic and economic price of any invasion-no matter how successfully executed -would be incalculable. Intensely nationalistic, the Poles have resisted foreign domination throughout their history, rising up against Tsarist rule in 1794 and 1830 and against the Nazis in 1944. Some units of the large (210,000...