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...final joint declaration condemned Poland for violating the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords and deplored "the sustained campaign by the Soviet Union" to crush Polish reform. The allies also agreed to suspend commercial credits to Poland, except for food purchases, and to halt negotiations on the rescheduling of Warsaw's $28.5 billion debt to the West. Beaming with satisfaction, Haig pronounced the Brussels declaration "a solid success...
Another step toward Western unity occurred in Paris, where French President François Mitterrand met for three hours with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The two leaders had some differences to iron out over the Polish question: Mitterrand had consistently taken a strong, anti-Soviet line about the imposition of martial law, while Schmidt had originally been tepid in his criticism, although he took a tougher stand after conferring with President Ronald Reagan two weeks ago. At the end of their meeting, Mitterrand and Schmidt declared that their views were now in harmony...
...Moscow, meanwhile, where Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek was conferring with his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, a joint communiqué denounced the NATO declaration as "an attempt at grossly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." In a separate commentary, however, the Soviet news agency TASS expressed the hope that disagreements over the Polish question would not compromise the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons...
...billion due them in 1982. That was bad news for Warsaw. Only a few days earlier, Deputy Premier Janusz Obodowski had declared that Poland needed a yearlong moratorium on all debt payments and a new loan of $350 million. Nor were the latest statistics on the Polish economy encouraging: in 1981 the total value of goods and services produced fell by 14%, while export earnings dropped...
That is the sort of pledge that Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Polish Primate, has publicly denounced as "unethical." Last week Pope John Paul II also attacked Warsaw's coercive use of loyalty oaths in a strongly worded speech from the Vatican. Said he: "The violation of conscience is a serious injury done to man. It is the most pitiful blow inflicted upon human dignity. It is in a certain sense worse than inflicting physical death...