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...provincial party meeting in Warsaw, Communist Party Leader Stanislaw Kania came under attack for showing excessive "submissiveness and liberalism...
...Vigorous export policies can also lead to procurement problems at home. Overseas sales of the F-16 will slow deliveries to the U.S. Air Force and NATO, the Pentagon concedes. Soviet sales of the new T-72 battle tank to the Third World have delayed its deployment within the Warsaw Pact...
...climate worsened as moderates in both camps faced a growing challenge within their ranks. Although Solidarity had called for a moratorium on strikes, workers in various cities put down their tools last week to protest widespread food and fuel shortages. In Zyrardow, 27 miles west of Warsaw, 12,000 women occupied textile mills. A union official explained that the townspeople faced "real starvation"; they had to wait three or four days, he said, for their weekly ration of 1½ lbs. of meat...
Seven months ago, while packing my suitcases and boarding a plane from Warsaw to New York, I did not suspect that my stay in the United States would be so permeated with the ever-present Polish problems. I knew, of course, that the August 1980 events and their consequences had stimulated a great interest in Polish affairs. I also knew that my individual biography might seem symbolic: after all, I was a participant in some of the most spectacular activities of Polish democratic opposition in the late seventies--KOR--Committee for the Defense of Workers--underground publishing, the "Flying University...
...Soviets are up to? All the past of Polish-Soviet relations is marked by violence and treason from the Soviet side. Of course, the official historiography keeps its mouth shut about that. But Polish people remember very well the massacre in Katyn forest, the deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1980. Can anybody seriously maintain that the Poles underestimate the danger? Just the opposite: at a certain moment...