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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...
Allied governments wasted no time in carrying out the squeeze recommended by NATO. Meeting secretly in Paris late last week, treasury representatives from 16 Western countries decided to suspend all talks on rescheduling of the $3.5 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...
...Editors: People around the world are shocked by the military action to crush Solidarity [Dec. 28]. Obviously, the imposition of martial law and the ruthless action that followed were on direct orders from the Kremlin. Under such circumstances, the U.S. and the West should immediately suspend economic and food aid to Poland. Continuing it only endorses and subsidizes Communist oppression. YaWar Shahabuddin Ottawa
...April he lifted the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the Afghanistan invasion; the farm bill passed last month might require the Administration to pay as much as $20 billion in support payments to farmers in case a new embargo is ordered. Reagan also refused, wisely, to suspend U.S.-Soviet talks on limiting the number of medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, an issue that is of paramount importance to the NATO allies...
...organization that became the CRR was founded in 1969 to punish student demonstrators. A committee of Faculty members, administrators and students, with the power to suspend or expel students, the CRR was organized to make it almost impossible for students to receive fair hearings. It met behind closed doors, accepted hearsay evidence, prohibited appeals outside of itself and did not give students equal representation in its membership. Because of these conditions and because students felt the CRR existed only to stifle political dissent, they boycotted the committee from the outset...