Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the Polish crisis had not arisen, Haig might not have been ready to launch the broader START talks with Gromyko. Although technical preparations are fairly far along, top U.S. officials "just haven't taken the fundamental decisions" on policy yet, says one arms control specialist. The bargaining package will be ready "by early spring," projects Eugene Rostow, chief of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But that deadline could be postponed because of the divergent views of the arms control agency, the State Department and the Pentagon. As one beleaguered combatant puts it, "The Soviets rank about...
...came from Henry Kissinger himself, an architect of detente who has grown more mistrustful of the Soviets and hawkish toward them since leaving office. In two articles for the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Kissinger charged the Administration with failing to lead the West in the Polish crisis and with lacking a coherent approach to the world. Though he said, "I continue to believe that the Administration embodies the best chance for free peoples," Kissinger urged public debate on a grain embargo against the Soviets and a credit freeze on debt-ridden Poland. He called...
...Mitterrand, an outspoken foe of Soviet imperialism who wasted no time in denouncing the declaration of martial law in Poland. While Communist Boss Georges Marchais parroted Moscow and Warsaw, blaming Solidarity for "overbidding," the Communist ministers had little choice but to endorse Mitterrand's strong criticism of the Polish move if they wanted to stay in the government. Grudgingly, they agreed...
...many leading Eurocommunists, the crackdown has failed to elicit the same kind of emotional response from Europe's pacifists. Accustomed to portraying the U.S. as the chief threat to world peace, leaders of the antinuclear crusade have been confounded by General Wojciech Jaruzelski's move against the Polish workers that had evidently been ordered by Moscow. In all of Europe, only a few thousand have demonstrated against Poland's imposition of martial law, although more than 2 million people had turned out for anti-nuclear weapons rallies in major European cities last fall...
...first large gathering of the peace movement in West Germany since the military takeover in Poland, the Max Planck Institute's Alfred Mechtersheimer argued in Frankfurt two weeks ago that the Polish crisis has "enlarged the danger of war," but not so much because of what the Communists had done. The real problem was U.S. willingness to "take risks" in reacting to the crisis and "make every political crisis a potential point of departure for war in the erroneous belief that a nuclear war may be both conducted and limited...