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...without incurring the wrath of elderly citizens whom he cannot afford to alienate. The defecting conservative Republicans might temporarily be converted: there is speculation that they would not have jumped ship if the hospitalized President had been able to make a person al appeal for their support. But their rebellion points to an unease among Reagan's own supporters that could cause trouble in the many future votes on his economic plans...
...from units of the conscript-based armed forces. "The Poles will not stand aside as the Czechs did in 1968," predicts a Bonn Kremlinologist. Though open resistance would eventually be subdued by Moscow's overwhelming might, the myth of Warsaw Pact unity would be forever destroyed, and underground rebellion might smolder on for years. Even short of that, the Soviets would have to assume responsibility for Poland's $27 billion foreign debt and its faltering economy, all in the face of almost certain industrial sabotage, mass strikes and boycotts. Finally, intervention would mean the end of detente, which...
Stalin's successors have repeatedly exercised the Soviet claim over Eastern Europe by using military force against obstreperous satellites. Soviet tanks quelled riots in East Berlin in 1953 and crushed the rebellion in Hungary in 1956, an episode that cost the lives of more than 25,000 Hungarians. And in justifying the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet press proclaimed the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine: the U.S.S.R. reserves the right to use force in any "fraternal country" where it deems "socialism" to be in jeopardy. None of those interventions, whether in time of cold war or thaw...
Prosecuting the coup leaders will probably change little. Currently, 29 officers are being held on charges of "armed rebellion"; conviction carries a 30-to 40-year sentence. According to leading lawyers in Madrid, however, most will be tried for the lesser crime of disobedience, mainly because they have threatened to drag King Juan Carlos into the proceedings by claiming that he had implied his approval of their attempted coup. The one exception is Tejero, whose actions in the Cortes were recorded by television cameras. Yet he too has managed to pull a triumph of sorts from his debacle...
...their troop maneuvers simply because the Poles are showing signs of becoming their own oppressors. To the contrary; many Poles seem to grow more obstreperous by the day, to the point that Lech Walesa, whose eyes gleamed with anarchy last summer, when he seemed to represent the extremes of rebellion, often appears now like any bedraggled labor negotiator, cursing out the hotheads. But the Poles and their present government, which is far more scared of the Soviets than Solidarity appears to be, are simply in a bind. They cannot beat the Soviets in a fight, so they must cool things...