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...Moscow as little more than spies anyway. Indeed, Holbrook and his unfortunate fellow tripper-Lieut. Colonel Thomas Spencer, still among the American officers who work out of the Moscow embassy-were headed toward a particularly sensitive area: Lvov, a Soviet military headquarters city only 40 miles from the Polish border...
...artificial birth control in a nation with one of the most rapidly growing populations on earth. And he was the pastoral Pope, fondly kissing each member of a delegation of deaf-mutes, or impishly chiding singers who struggled through a rendition of the song Sto Lat (100 Years) in Polish. "The melody is good," he laughed, "the words...
...students appeared to make only two major concessions in return: 1) a pledge that their union charter would declare allegiance to the Polish constitution, which enshrines the party's leading role, and 2) a requirement that only those strikes approved by a majority of the student body would be considered legitimate. Referring to the whole student settlement package, one Western diplomat shook his head and said, "I just don't see how the Soviets can accept that...
...Erich Honecker of East Germany have been, along with the Soviets, the most bitter and vocal critics of Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain enough time to bring the Polish crisis solidly under control. Significantly, press coverage of Poland was muted throughout the East bloc last week. TASS even reported that the Jaruzelski government seemed to be restoring order...
...letter, said to have been handed to Berlinguer by a Soviet embassy official in late December, begins "Dear Comrades" and signs off with "Fraternal Greetings"-but that is the extent of the cordiality. Taking a swipe at the inde pendent Polish unions, the message accuses Berlinguer's party of disloyalty for siding with them. The P.C.I. 's December communique, it noted, did not "support the socialism that actually exists in Poland but shows solidarity with those forces that have unleashed a real and serious offensive against Polish socialism." Sounding a familiar chord, the Soviet party leadership wondered...