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However, Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said that current Warsaw Pact maneuvers near the Polish border were primarily an attempt to intimidate the Polish people, and may not be an indication that intervention is imminent...
Goldman said that the Soviets would likely prefer to settle the Polish crisis before Jan. 20, when Reagan takes office...
...State Edmund Muskie met today with the NATO allies, attempting to formulate a unified Western position on the crisis. Harold Brown, the secretary of defense, said that several AWAC reconnaissance planes had been dispatched to West Germany, presumably to keep a closer watch on Soviet troop movements along the Polish border...
...united front of the West is the most important response to Soviet intervention," Ulam said. Additionally, he said, "The Polish people would offer some armed resistance," along with some elements of the military. Apart from the Soviets, the Polish Army is the largest in the Soviet Bloc, but its equipment is generally considered older and less sophisticated than those of other Warsaw Pact nations
...they have struck without specific warning, as in Italy last week, and in Algeria last October. Only a year and a half after the Haicheng temblor, an 8.2 quake near Tangshan, 90 miles southeast of Peking, caught seismologists by surprise and killed as many as 650,000. Says Polish-born Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff: "At the present level of research, nature almost always surprises...