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...Administration's most imaginative proposal, embracing the "zero option". in talks with the U.S.S.R. on reduction of nuclear arms in Europe, may not survive the Polish crisis. At home, the troubles of Budget Boss David Stockman, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan pointed up the thinness of talent in the Administration: the supporting cast is not of the same caliber as the star...
...leaders of the Western world were preoccupied with a common question last week: How should they respond to the Polish government's declaration of martial law and crackdown on the independent trade union movement Solidarity? In a Christmas address to the American people, President Reagan proposed a number of economic sanctions against Poland and one sweeping, symbolic gesture of support. Recalling that the Polish people were demonstrating their opposition to martial law by placing lighted candles in their windows, the President declared he would light a candle in a White House window "as a small but certain beacon...
Reagan considered a long list of measures that the U.S. could take against the Polish government, including a trade boycott. In the end he settled on a set of largely symbolic sanctions: a cutoff of Poland's $25 million in credit insurance at the U.S. Export-Import Bank (which would discourage private banks from lending far greater sums), a suspension of the Polish national airline's right to land in the U.S., and a declaration that American territorial waters would be placed off limits to Polish fishing boats. The effect of these measures, the President hoped, would be to encourage...
...West Germans opposed the imposition of sanctions and planned to go ahead with their aid commitments to Poland, which include $17 million in food. The Bonn government is anxious to preserve whatever is left of détente. So it took the position that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish armed forces commander and Premier, had declared martial law not because he was ordered to do so by the Soviet Union, but because he was seeking to ward off Soviet intervention. This view was essentially shared by the British government, which believed that the Soviets had pressed Warsaw to crush Solidarity...
Throughout the week, Pope John Paul deliberately muffled his criticism of the Warsaw government, appealing for "a peaceful solution to the mutual collaboration between authorities and citizens." But at the end of his annual Christmas message, the Pope declared, in Polish, that he was sending an embrace to "all of Poland, our common homeland," including "those here in the square who represent Solidarity and all those listening on the radio...