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Dishonesty ... astonishing." The angry words of the Polish government's chief spokesman, Jerzy Urban, last week were aimed at the U.S., not for what it had done but for what it had failed to do. What infuriated Urban was Washington's apparent initial tepid response to Warsaw's sweeping amnesty for 652 political prisoners. To Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime, the amnesty clearly lived up to Washington's conditions for lifting an array of painful economic sanctions imposed after Poland declared martial law in 1981. But the Reagan Administration seemed to Warsaw...
...Warsaw's annoyance was premature...
What Washington wanted, for one thing, was time to fashion a concerted NATO response that will please Warsaw while satisfying anti-Communist Polish Americans. A White House official confided that President Reagan's decision "will be guided by what's good for the Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well...
...amnesty "very carefully," with an eye toward lifting sanctions. By week's end the Administration appeared to favor easing some of the most onerous barriers, and the President seemed likely to reveal his position from the Western White House later this week. Relief cannot come too soon for Warsaw: government officials estimate that sanctions have already cost Poland $13 billion...
...official indictment charged the four men who went on trial in Warsaw last week with conspiring to overthrow the Communist system in Poland. That could mean only one thing: they had collaborated with the banned Solidarity movement. So when Intellectuals Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski appeared before a military tribunal, former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa broke off his summer vacation to travel to Warsaw. Although rows of police prevented Walesa from entering the military courthouse, his presence drew cheers and applause from the crowd that had gathered outside...