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...final, fateful meeting before the crackdown, TIME Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski was with them. He was scheduled to spend the entire next day with Lech Walesa and his family, an interview that never took place. After scouring Gdansk for details of the mass arrests and strikes, Wierzynski drove to Warsaw, into a setting of total censorship. It was five days after the military takeover that Wierzynski was able to make his way to West Berlin, from where he sent his reports. Among them was this personal look at Poland under siege...
...road to Warsaw, I encountered Poland at its most beautiful-a perfect wintry landscape of rolling plains and snow-covered forests. I also encountered military vehicles-trucks, armored personnel carriers, light tanks and some light artillery-all heading south to Warsaw. The militiamen at checkpoints fingered newly issued machine pistols...
...Radio and television broadcasts are to be restricted to one station and channel. Programming will be supervised by government-assigned teams. All broadcasting is to be done from Warsaw; regional broadcasting is suspended...
...soldiers with fixed bayonets, armored cars and a few tanks. I spotted a Soviet patrol car and several uniformed Soviet soldiers casually strolling in the center of the city. One man told me he had seen about 30 high-ranking Russian officers leaving a Soviet Air Force plane at Warsaw airport...
...bystander asked a soldier on guard at Warsaw University: "Why are you here?" His reply: "I don't really know. They never told us." The soldier was asked whether he would shoot civilians if so ordered. He shrugged and his face turned...