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Still, Moscow will tolerate no fundamental challenge to Communist power in Warsaw. Last week TASS, the official Soviet news agency, said that "anti-Soviet opposition forces" in Poland increased in the past week and that "the unions are trying to destroy Socialism." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star pointedly reprinted a commentary from Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu warning against the "dangerous game" the Solidarity strikers were playing. Prague's Rude Pravo charged that Walesa had received orders from Pope John Paul II to initiate the latest round of labor unrest...
Ever since militant Iranians seized the American hostages, the Soviet and Eastern European press have blamed the U.S. for the crisis. When it ended last week, the Communists stepped up the propaganda barrage. Said the Soviet news agency TASS: "The settlement of the crisis in Iran will in no way affect the Pentagon's plans for a further buildup of the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf area." Intoned the Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap: "The U.S. secured the release of its diplomats by .resorting to economic and financial extortion." Said the Czechoslovak news agency Ceteka: "Washington should learn...
...agreement over the hostages began to take shape last month, the Soviets seemed to be worried about a rapprochement between the U.S. and Iran. Said TASS: "What is in the making is another U.S. holdup of Iran." Two weeks ago, TASS reported that the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iran from bases in Egypt, Pakistan or Oman. The fabricated report was thought to be an attempt to scuttle the negotiations. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie summoned Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and demanded a halt to the "scurrilous propaganda." Dobrynin appeared embarrassed, but TASS responded by warning...
There was little doubt about the motivation behind the determined harmony inside Poland: the continuing menace of 55 Soviet divisions that remained poised within striking distance of Poland's borders. On New Year's Day, in fact, TASS issued a communiqué that accused "antisocialist forces" in Solidarity of seeking "to push matters to the point of chaos in the economy, hoping to further their subversive aims...
Three days later TASS carried portions of a truculent speech by Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Addressing a high-level military group whose proceedings would ordinarily be secret, Ustinov called for "heightened vigilance against the aggressive aspirations of imperialist forces, against the attempts of reaction to damage the positions of socialist countries, specifically of socialist Poland." The implication that pressures on Poland were external rather than internal was similar to charges made against "Western imperialists" and "West German revanchists" before the invasion of Czechoslovakia...