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...Soviets had significantly increased their invasion capability, making the situation "far more serious" than before. Next day State Department Spokesman William Dyess warned that Soviet preparedness had reached the point where "they are capable of moving at any time." Vice President George Bush underscored U.S. concern by telling Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was in Washington seeking economic aid (see box), that "we follow a policy of nonintervention in Poland's internal affairs, and we are anxious that others do the same...
...immediately clear just what had set off Washington's alarm, but as one State Department official put it, "the concern grows with each hour." With an estimated 200,000 Soviet troops reportedly massed near the Polish border, there were indications that some small-scale movement into Poland had already begun. Said a State Department spokesman: "Some specialized personnel have moved in. We are not talking about divisions but smaller things." A U.S. intelligence official, meanwhile, confirmed that the Soviets had just completed a sophisticated military communications network inside Poland big enough to handle a force of 30 divisions. Armed...
...nickname, "Leszek, Leszek." As Walesa's car inched through the crush of supporters, some overexuberant fans even managed to lift the rear wheels off the ground. A sticker on Walesa's windshield seemed to capture the spirit of the moment: IT'S EXCITING TO BE POLISH...
That is a heavy burden for a country whose hard currency reserves are dangerously low and whose industrial production has dropped by 10% just in the past year. Even the official Polish Press Agency last week admitted that because of the nation's economic turmoil, the first quarter of 1981 was the "grimmest" in Poland's postwar history. To complete the gloomy landscape, a critical food shortage, compounded by panic buying, has resulted in frustratingly long lines in front of near empty shops...
...desperate campaign for food and credit. In London, officials from Warsaw's Bank Handlowy met representatives of 20 Western commercial banks to talk about rescheduling loan payments. In Brussels, the European Community agreed to sell Warsaw more meat, dairy products and grain at 15% below the market price. Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski flew to Paris and Washington. The veteran negotiator met with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and won a pledge of $800 million in aid, plus shipments of surplus wheat. In Washington, Jagielski was received by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Vice President George Bush...