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...official statement last week, the State Department carefully declared that "military intervention in Poland is viewed as neither imminent, inevitable, nor justifiable on any grounds." But that public reassurance was intended to counter widespread reports that Secretary of State Alexander Haig is becoming pessimistic about the outcome of the Polish crisis. Privately, Haig and his top aides believe that it may deteriorate into chaos and create an unacceptable challenge to Moscow. Experts in Bonn and London tend to share that gloomy view, but still feel that the Soviets would move only as a last resort. Says one senior British diplomat...
...court argued that the country's 3.2 million independent farmers, who own their own land, were not employees and under Polish law were therefore ineligible for membership in a true union with the right of collective bargaining. By holding out the vague offer of association status, however, the judges hoped to stave off the widespread strikes and protests that had been threatened in the event of an outright rejection. Though there was disappointed grumbling outside the court building, Walesa helped keep tempers cool by calling the verdict "a tie, but one that gives us a great deal." He added...
...height of the food price riots 4½ years ago, the general told his colleagues on the Politburo: "Polish soldiers will not fire on Polish workers...
Jaruzelski began his military career in 1943 in the Soviet Union, where he joined the exiled First Polish Army as an infantry officer. He fought in its ranks in Poland and Germany until the end of the war, then took part in what his official biographer calls the "struggle against armed underground bands"-meaning the Polish anti-Communist resistance movement. After advanced infantry training and general staff college, Jaruzelski's rise was meteoric. By 1957, he commanded the 12th Motorized Division; in 1960 he was named the army's chief political commissar; in 1968 he became Poland...
Jaruzelski has won a reputation as both a fervent Polish patriot and an unshakable party loyalist. In introducing him to parliament last week, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania said: "Now as black clouds hang over Poland, he is the best man to whom the helm could be offered." Perhaps. But those clouds will sorely test his capacity for reconciling the conflicts between his nation and his ideology...