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...that resulted in one of the raid's postponements. Peres had learned that the attack was scheduled for May 10, the date of the deciding round of French presidential elections. As a "supreme civic duty," he warned Begin not to go ahead. Peres felt, correctly, as it happened, that Socialist François Mitterrand would win, and that there were signs that the new French President would do everything possible to "make the Iraqi reactor impotent, militarily." Peres also warned Begin that the raid would leave Israel as isolated "as a lonely shrub in the desert...
...open an emergency Central Committee plenum in Warsaw, he faced one of the gravest challenges to confront the leader of a Soviet client state. Three days earlier, the Polish party had received its latest warning from a Soviet Central Committee increasingly disturbed over the course of Poland's "socialist renewal." The near ultimatum to the Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent to the Czechoslovaks three days before Soviet tanks moved into Prague...
Last week's letter from the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee to its Polish counterpart was a graphic and forbidding message, couched in the distinct language of Communist doublespeak. To understand the Soviets' criticisms and quarrels with Poland's "socialist renewal," opposite words must, in the fashion of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, be substituted: for "free and independent," read subservient; for "counterrevolution" read reform and democratization; and for "protection of the socialist commonwealth" read intervention by Warsaw Pact forces. Excerpts from the letter, as translated by the New York Times...
...worst came to pass, if Poland no longer benefited from the protection of the socialist commonwealth, it would fall immediately into the greedy hands of imperialism. And who would then guarantee the independence, the sovereignty, the borders of Poland as a state...
...Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders - yes, our common security. The Polish party thus not only bears a historic responsibility for the fate of its own country; comrades, you also bear an enormous responsibility for the common interests of the socialist commonwealth...