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Reagan relished the accounts of how the CIA penetrated the Polish government and how informers, once discovered, were spirited out of the country along with their families-but not before they had disclosed Moscow's hand in the martial-law crackdown. Reagan has followed the cabled details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back...
What the recent Polish events illustrate is something more than that fastest rule is possible within the framework of a Communist society, whereas democrat government and worker self-rule are clearly in- tolerable--and will not be tolerated. I would contend that what they illustrate of a truth we should have understood a very long time ago: that Communism is fascism successful fascism if you will... Communism is in itself a Variant the most successful variant, of fascism." "The Lesson of Poland." Susan Sontag, January...
Harvard's Semitic Museum, closed to the public for 40 years, will re-open its doors to museum goers on April 5 with an exhibit of ceremonial objects from a pre-World War II Jewish community in the Polish city of Danzig (noss Gdansk...
...unspecified amount of economic aid to help "fill the gaps" created by Western sanctions and Poland's crippling indebtedness to the West. But the price will be high: strict reintegration into the Soviet bloc's tightly coordinated economic system. Trade with the West will diminish as Polish factories increase their dependence on Soviet raw materials and equipment. Says a Western diplomat in Warsaw: "Economically, Poland is on the verge of becoming the Soviet Union's 16th republic...
...Polish officials argued that Jaruzelski won a few points in his talks with Brezhnev. For example, he got Soviet backing for "the line of the Ninth [Polish Communist Party] Congress," which had adopted a number of reforms last July. But on the key issue of free labor unions, the final communique made it clear that the Soviets would tolerate only their style of union in Poland-the kind that takes orders from the Communist leadership. The Moscow meeting, said the U.S. State Department, produced "nothing that gives grounds for optimism that the Polish regime intends to ease the current repression...