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...union convention three weeks earlier, Polish authorities had been talking about a possible crackdown and the Soviets had been threatening economic reprisals, if not outright intervention, unless Solidarity curbed its political demands. Walesa and his allies needed to work out some kind of accommodation with the Communist government in Warsaw. In this setting, with the prime responsibility his, Walesa found himself under blistering attack by union members...
Under the barrage of threats from Moscow and Warsaw, Solidarity's presidium moved to defuse the potentially explosive issue of worker self-management. Scaling down its previous demands for worker autonomy, the union proposed to draw up, with the government, a list of strategic enterprises whose managers would be appointed by the state; managers of all other enterprises would be appointed by workers' councils. Each side would have a right to veto the other's appointments, with the courts acting as final arbiter. At week's end parliament passed a self-management bill almost identical...
...down trying to subdue another "fraternal" nation. Moreover, a military invasion by the Kremlin is not necessary. There is no present threat to the Soviet strategic position, and no one in the Solidarity leadership is seriously questioning Poland's status as a Communist nation or membership in the Warsaw Pact...
...situation is so critical that the Soviets could bring Warsaw to its knees by refusing to increase their aid. Says Richard Portes, professor of economics at the University of London: "They simply need to continue the present levels of deliveries, do nothing out of the ordinary, and let the economy disintegrate...
...most ludicrous. All it will do is make the Poles even more angry. It will increase the chances of having them declare a civil war." Provoking Poland's economic demise could also hurt other East bloc nations, whose economies are closely interlocked. Because of military reasons, the Warsaw Pact nations also do not want Poland to plunge into chaos; the country occupies a strategic position in the alliance's defenses. Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman. Last April...