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...first days after the military takeover, Poles were surprised to find grocery shelves stocked with certain items, such as smoked fish and tomato juice, that had scarcely been seen for six months. "Where has it all been?" asked a woman shopper in Warsaw. A clue to that mystery was supplied by a Dutch truck driver, who had taken part in a 150-vehicle convoy to deliver donated food from Western Europe. He was directed to a Polish warehouse that he said contained "more butter than I've seen in my entire life." Poles generally welcomed the government's sudden bounty...
...month ago, according to these accounts, he was given an ultimatum by the Kremlin. Soviet representatives told him?and him alone?that the Polish party was no longer in control, that the Sejm (parliament) was running wild, and that if he did not act to restore order, the Warsaw Pact would do it for him. Though Jaruzelski emphasized last week that Poland remained a sovereign state, many people regarded the crackdown as a Soviet invasion by proxy. On Tuesday, some 30 ranking Soviet officers were observed disembarking from a military plane. Nonetheless, insofar as Western journalists could tell...
...conventional view, Moscow will intervene in Poland only in the event of a general breakdown of law-and-order, or of a direct threat to the Warsaw Pact. If they should ever do so, in the opinion of Colonel Jonathan Alford of London's Institute for Strategic Studies, the intervention would be carried out "with a very great margin of superiority." His estimate is that the Soviets would bring in as many as 35 divisions, with around 500,000 men. But Alford believes the Soviet high command has counseled caution over Poland. One reason: even on so crushing a scale...
...plea for calm was issued by the government in Walesa's name, but few Poles seemed to believe that he had authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...
...could somehow convince his countrymen that his real goal is one of national reconciliation and that his moves staved off a worse fate, namely a Soviet invasion. The drift last week, however, was in the direction of rising chaos, and the government appeared to be deeply concerned. When Warsaw radio first announced the casualties at Katowice, it described the killing of Poles by Poles in words of anguish. "Let us lower our heads in silence to honor the victims of yet another Polish tragedy," declared the announcer. "Let the bloodshed in Silesia cause the provocateurs to sober up and make...