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...Poles quietly marked the beginning of the eighth month of military rule last week, there were signs in Warsaw that some easing of martial law might be on the way. Rumors spread that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski planned, among other steps, to release all but 600 of the 2,300 prisoners still held, according to official count, in detention camps. At week's end the Communist Party hierarchy was reshuffled in the first major shake-up since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. The main victim was hard-line Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, who lost...
Every evening, rain or shine, a crowd forms around a huge cross of flowers lying in the center of Warsaw's Victory Square. This floral tribute to Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last year, has become the most potent political symbol in Poland today. Three times the government has swept it away, and three times it has been rebuilt by the crowds who come to pray and intone hymns. The cross is tended by a group of women who patiently replace wilted flowers every day under the watchful eyes of militiamen. Late each night the police move...
Another pressing East-West financial issue concerns the $25 billion that Poland owes Western creditors. Some officials have been urging the banks to declare Poland in default in order to increase pressure on Warsaw. The European economists were split on that issue. Although the board disapproved of using economic measures for political purposes, Brittan questioned the wisdom of continual rescheduling of the debt. He called the process "default by a slightly sweeter name." Carli replied that the banks had little choice. Said he: "If banks requested all their clients, developed or developing, to pay at once, they would cause...
...would not then stop the building of the pipeline or cancel the European commitment to it. He thought he could satisfy Reagan's desire to be tough on the Soviets by getting the Europeans to pledge that they would limit government-subsidized loans to the U.S.S.R. and its Warsaw Pact allies. They understood him to promise that if such a pledge were written into the final Versailles communique, there would be no further American moves against the pipeline. The communique did contain a vague promise to study restrictions on loans to the East bloc, and Haig tried to convince...
...Cutting back NATO ground troops in Europe by 91,000 and Warsaw Pact forces by 262,000, to an equal level of 700,000 (that is U.S. arithmetic; the Soviets count 125,000 fewer Warsaw Pact troops than NATO does). This idea will formally be presented at negotiations in Vienna that have been dragging on for nine years...