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...perfect day for fishing, so no one paid much attention when some of the faithful who crowded into St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw brought their rods, reels and tackle bags. As soon as the service was over, however, it became obvious that the worshipers were angling to annoy the government. From their satchels they produced large banners with the word SOLIDARITY stenciled in red paint, which they began to string from one fishing rod to another. As the banners appeared, hands shot up in the V-for-victory sign, and a shouting, cheering crowd set out to march...
...mile from the site of the nearest demonstrations. A second round of protests, two days later, was broken up by police and militiamen with equal ease. In a particularly brutal incident, "hooligans" believed to have been recruited by the secret police invaded St. Martin's Church in Warsaw and beat up a number of volunteer workers who were serving on a committee to help the city's unemployed...
...Pope had asked them to grant amnesty to all political prisoners before his arrival on June 16. The government refused, on the ground that this would not be "beneficial to public order." At week's end police seized former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and several aides in Warsaw. The "charge": meeting secretly with other members of the banned labor union and attempting to draft a letter to the Polish parliament. Police promptly drove Walesa to his home in Gdansk, 220 miles away, where they increased the security around his apartment and prevented him from making phone calls...
Speaking at a reception in Moscow for East German Leader Erich Honecker, Andropov also warned that if the U.S. missiles are deployed, "a chain reaction is inevitable." Said he: "The U.S.S.R., the German Democratic Republic, the other Warsaw Treaty countries will be compelled to take countermeasures." If the Andropov proposal was consistent with past maneuvering in the missile game, combining offers of flexibility with threats of escalation, it nevertheless appeared to suggest that the Soviet Union was inching toward a more conciliatory stance in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks scheduled to resume in Geneva next week...
...relatively few and cheap. NATO's conventional commitment also remains relatively small compared to the Communist bloc forces. By having nuclear forces, Britain and France receive "more bang for the buck," so to speak; in theory these weapons serve as a deterrent to the huge conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact. In practice, they would have to survive a first strike by the Soviet SS-20s, and in any case their use in a wartime situation would be subject to innumerable uncertainties and problems. Because of the numerical superiority of the SS-20s, they would hardly stand up alone...