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Lech Walesa, leader of the Polish workers, who has championed freedom and the rights of his fellow Poles...
...Countrymen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance." With that dramatic warning, the Polish Communist Party appealed last week for an end to the labor unrest that had brought Poland to what the party itself called "the brink of economic and moral destruction." More than that, the dread scenario of Moscow intervening to prevent a key satellite from abandoning Soviet-style socialism suddenly seemed very real, perhaps imminent. Soviet troops in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and along the Poland-U.S.S.R. frontier were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events...
...crisis atmosphere eased somewhat at week's end, after leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations, including Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, were summoned to Moscow for a secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties." The statement also noted that Poland "can firmly count on" the support of its East bloc brethren, meaning that the Soviets were still ready to step in if need...
...time of the Moscow meeting, the free world was in somewhat of a cold war lather. President Carter, in a strong statement, said the U.S. was "watching with growing concern the unprecedented buildup of Soviet forces along the Polish border," and urged that the Poles be allowed "to work out their internal difficulties without outside interference." Warned the President: "Foreign military intervention in Poland would have the most negative consequences for East-West relations." Meeting in Luxembourg, leaders of the European Community predicted "very serious consequences" if Poland were invaded. With a touch of Gaelic hyperbole, Irish Prime Minister Charles...
Initial reports from several Reagan transition teams fell due this week, including the State Department task force, where Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History, is monitoring developments on the Polish front and other areas of U.S.-Soviet and East-West relations...