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Those hopes were dashed early Sunday morning, when Polish security troops raided Solidarity's Warsaw headquarters and arrested union officials across the nation. Within hours after the crackdown began, Polish premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of national emergency and imposed martial...
...Polish crisis continued to escalate, President Reagan took time Tuesday to meet a Vatican-sponsored delegation headed by Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, that urged an increased effort to abolish nuclear weapons. The meeting was the first of several that will take place between emissaries of Pope John Paul II and leaders of four of the five recognized nuclear powers. Hiatt and three other experts told the president that casualties from a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the area's medical facilities, a suggestion Reagan reportedly did not dispute. Hiatt said...
Sixteen months ago, when the Polish labor union Solidarity was born, many Western experts and Polish dissidents believed a confrontation between the union and the Polish government was inevitable...
...alleged assaults took place at a speech criticizing the independent Polish labor union Solidarity by a member of the Spartacist League November 12 at Harvard Hall...
Students in particular, here and at other U.S. universities, should make their protests heard. In the coming days, Polish students who have struck repeatedly for academic reforms are likely to meet severe tests if they defy the government. They deserve every possible gesture of support--and solidarity--from American students...