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Moscow could hardly take such heresies lightly. Even before the Torun gathering, Pravda had stepped up its attacks on those within the Polish party who held "views foreign to a Marxist-Leninist party." In the view of many Western analysts, the liberal evolution of the Polish party could pose a far more serious threat to the Soviets than the independent labor movement. Indeed, the situation seemed increasingly to resemble that of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when a party-led reform movement finally brought on a Soviet-led invasion. In the case of Poland, the immediate invasion threat appeared to be receding...
Moscow indicated last week that all is not going so well for its forces in Afghanistan. In an unusually candid article, the Soviet party daily, Pravda, reported that episodes of major sabotage, roadblocks and ambushes of supply convoys had been carried out by rebel forces against Soviet and Afghan troops. Most worrisome to the Soviets was a new kind of nonmetallic mine that is not detectable by ordinary means. The rebels have been successfully planting the mines along major highways to blow up Soviet tanks and trucks. "Such a mine said Pravda, "can be passed over by 40 trucks...
Earlier in the week, events had seemed to be moving inexorably toward a possible Warsaw Pact intervention. The official East German news agency announced that fresh troops, tanks and armored cars had been sent to join the three-week-old Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. Pravda, meanwhile, charged that "the opponents of socialism" were pushing Poland "toward a counterrevolutionary path." Then came the news that Leonid Brezhnev would personally attend the 16th Czechoslovak Party Congress in Prague-an extraordinary announcement, since the ailing 74-year-old Soviet President had not ventured abroad for such a meeting since...
Meanwhile the Communist Party youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, depicted the U.S. as a society "where terror is a phenomenon of daily life." And Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini said about Reagan, even before he knew the President was not seriously hurt: "We are not going to mourn...
...televised campaign appearance, he called Giscard Moscow's "little mailman," a malicious reference to charges that the French President had conveyed word from Leonid Brezhnev last year of a phony Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. The President, he continued, had received a virtual endorsement from the Soviet newspaper Pravda for his secret meeting with Brezhnev last May. Said Mitterrand: "I understand why Pravda is content with Mr. Giscard d'Estaing. I did not wait eleven days to protest the invasion of Afghanistan." Fortunately, he added, "it is not the Russians who are voting, but the French...