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...that we in NATO will use only conventional forces in the face of a military threat is to condemn ourselves to defeat in advance. We are currently outmanned compared with the Warsaw Pact countries. Without nuclear arms we would be very seriously outgunned as well. Under these circumstances, no one can risk not resisting the Soviets...
Throughout Saturday evening there had been ominous signs of the trouble to come. Reports reaching the Warsaw headquarters of the trade-union movement Solidarity from regional offices warned of an unusual amount of troop activity throughout the country. Tanks were seen on provincial highways. In late evening, telephone and telex lines between Poland and the outside world were suddenly cut. And then, at midnight, eleven police vans appeared on Warsaw's Mokotowska Street, where the local headquarters is located, and blocked the thoroughfare. Moments later dozens of steel-helmeted riot police stormed the building, where they arrested union members...
...government, he continued, adding: "We would like to hear their private conversations when they are talking about us secretly." Moreover, union leaders pointed out, the meeting had taken place just after the government had sent police to break up a sit-in demonstration by students at Warsaw's Fire Fighters Academy, and the unionists were angry...
Meanwhile, demonstrators at a coal mine near Katowice battled police with stones, crowbars and axes yesterday. The police opened fire, killing seven protesters and wounding 39, according to Warsaw radio...
Although the Soviet Union did not appear to be directly behind the Polish government's actions, Soviet news agencies praised the Polish government's actions. But yesterday the British Broadcasting Corporation's Warsaw correspondent reported that the Soviet commander-in-chief of Warsaw Pact forces told Poland's leaders that unless they restored order, the Soviets would...