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Though it was the first nationwide walkout since March 27, last week's action seemed much like the countless other strikes that have punctuated more than a year of Polish labor unrest and political turmoil. But there was one key difference: General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the nation's Premier, who had just taken over the party leadership, had sent soldiers throughout the country to guard against economic disruptions and "provocations...
...face of the persistent unrest, some observers feared that the troops deployed last week might ultimately be used to restore order by force. Said a West German specialist in Eastern European affairs: "Part of the army remains in the barracks, but another part is being converted into an instrument for countering civil disobedience and maintaining law and order." Noting Jaruzelski's past refusals to turn the military against the Polish people, other analysts doubted that he would do so now. Observed a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski wanted to give a hint to the people-and the party-that...
There were a few incidents of unrest in the country, though nothing to equal the 36 hours of bloody fighting between Islamic fundamentalists and security forces that had taken place late the previous week in the southern city of Asyut, where at least 100 were killed. After a gun battle in a Cairo suburb, police arrested two men whom they accused of leading the rioting in Asyut. At Cairo International Airport, two bombs exploded in the baggage hold of an Air Malta jetliner that had just arrived from Libya, killing an airport worker and injuring a dozen others...
...near the Libyan-Egyptian border. Another Western diplomat said flatly: "The means employed by this Administration are completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt's affairs and insisted that the U.S. was "feverishly stepping up war preparations in the Middle East...
...state bureaucracy began. Following these moves, Sadat declared in a tough speech that "lack of discipline in any way or form" had ended in his country. This time, however, the visionary statesman and consummate strategist had fatally misjudged the situation: his killers emerged from a cauldron of seething unrest and fanaticism...