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...other chemical weapons is just one move in a diplomatic East-West chess game that is still in its early stages. Later this month, Washington is also scheduled to endorse a new NATO proposal at the eleven-year-old negotiations in Vienna aimed at reducing NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels in Europe. Discussions between the U.S. and the Soviets on such matters as the opening of a new consulate in each nation and resuming cultural exchanges will probably take place within a few weeks. There is even a hint of movement on the nuclear front: an Administration study group...
...would have opposed imposing the embargo in the first place. To use food as a weapon is bad policy. But now that the embargo was in place, lifting it involved worldwide consequences. Warsaw Pact troops were maneuvering along...
...Polish frontiers and the regime installed in Warsaw by the Soviet Politburo was assuming an increasingly threatening posture toward Solidarity. This moment, pregnant with the possibility of a Soviet invasion of Poland, was not one to choose to resume selling the Soviets foodstuffs that we had denied to them because they had invaded Afghanistan...
...whole hog at once; the Soviets might as well go into Poland. Britain, and the other members of the alliance, wanted desperately to follow the American lead on Poland in a policy that would protect the Polish people and discomfit the Soviets and the regime in Warsaw. But it was too much to ask that they punish their own economies and their own interests in support of policies that would inflict no noticeable wound on Moscow...
...Cardinal in his sermon did not broach his other problem, the transfer of Father Mieczyslaw Nowak from the Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Warsaw's industrial suburb of Ursus. The next day, however, Glemp held a 90-minute meeting with the banished priest as well as with representatives of nine of St. Joseph's parishioners who were fasting to protest the Cardinal's decision. Once again the outcome appeared to indicate Glemp's determination to coexist with the Jaruzelski regime. Despite the fast and the fact that many of Nowak's supporters...