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...with the Soviet Union's. Yet four Communists hold posts in the 44-member Cabinet of President François Mitterrand, an outspoken foe of Soviet imperialism who wasted no time in denouncing the declaration of martial law in Poland. While Communist Boss Georges Marchais parroted Moscow and Warsaw, blaming Solidarity for "overbidding," the Communist ministers had little choice but to endorse Mitterrand's strong criticism of the Polish move if they wanted to stay in the government. Grudgingly, they agreed...
...open letter that circulated in Warsaw last week, ex-Communist Party Member Stefan Bratkowski, the former head of the Association of Polish Journalists, called for a "ceasefire" in the "civil war" launched by "the authorities against their own population...
Even in Poland, some Solidarity sympathizers have expressed doubts about the wisdom of the union's course. Sitting in a comfortable country house near Warsaw, a group of affluent Polish farmers last week discussed the union's fate with a mixture of pity and reproach. "We are still for Solidarity," said one man, "but unfortunately they should have had more patience." His wife agreed: "It was too much, too fast...
...party's increasing disarray prevented it from either smashing Solidarity or reaching an understanding with the union. Finally the regime's only stable and disciplined institution-the military-had to step in and do what the party itself could not. As one West European diplomat in Warsaw puts it, "Solidarity had become the country, and the country had said, 'Enough!' There was no way to dominate it except through martial...
ZOMO troops are well equipped with machine guns, bazookas, armored vehicles and helicopters. But their favorite weapon is often sheer muscle. Says a British diplomat: "They're exceptionally tough and brutal. I saw three ZOMO thugs beat a striking worker in Warsaw with the butt end of their automatic rifles until both his arms and legs had been broken...