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...news for the likes of the banned Solidarity trade union movement in Poland. He vowed his determination to "expand cooperation with socialist states, to enhance the role and influence of socialism in world affairs." That amounted to a reminder to Poles that it was precisely Soviet "cooperation" with the Warsaw military authorities that drove Solidarity underground...
...Warsaw Pact as solid as it seems? As the seven members of the East bloc military alliance prepare to renew their ties, which formally expire in May, there are signs of discord simmering beneath the pact's outward unity. One such signal flashed last week when East Germany's Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland prominently reprinted remarks by a senior Hungarian official that seemed to question Moscow's right to meddle in the internal affairs of its allies...
...interview, reprinted from the Hungarian trade-union newspaper Nepszava, Deputy Foreign Minister Istvan Roska noted that there were some differences between Warsaw Pact members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
Urban drew special attention to Warsaw's Father Stanislaw Malkowski, 40, who is well known for his antigovernment blasts. Malkowski was described by one of the Toruan defendants as the initial target of the Popieluszko operation. Since then, Malkowski's outbursts have become even more virulent. "Today's empire of evil," he said recently, "is the country of the red dragon, the Communist state...
...tightened the reins on critics, the government purged the Interior Ministry. Government Spokesman Urban said that General Zenon Platek, the immediate superior of the four men convicted at Toruan, would remain suspended from duty and that his department would be broken up. Urban announced the suspension of Warsaw Police Colonel Leszek Wolski, who had allegedly known in advance of the Popieluszko plot...