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...many times must we stand on the brink of the precipice? What assurances do we have that one day we shall not fall into the abyss?" Even as he posed that grave question before Warsaw's parliament last week, Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski once again implored his fellow Poles to end the labor turmoil that has crippled the country for eight months and brought it perilously close to a Soviet invasion. This time the four-star general put teeth into his appeal by demanding a legislated, two-month ban against all strikes. Otherwise, Jaruzelski warned, he would be obliged...
Earlier in the week, events had seemed to be moving inexorably toward a possible Warsaw Pact intervention. The official East German news agency announced that fresh troops, tanks and armored cars had been sent to join the three-week-old Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. Pravda, meanwhile, charged that "the opponents of socialism" were pushing Poland "toward a counterrevolutionary path." Then came the news that Leonid Brezhnev would personally attend the 16th Czechoslovak Party Congress in Prague-an extraordinary announcement, since the ailing 74-year-old Soviet President had not ventured abroad for such a meeting since...
...Warsaw's growing foreign debt, which already stands at $27 billion, is sending increasingly nervous tremors through the international financial community...
Even as a new emergency meat-rationing plan took effect last week, Warsaw's trade emissaries fanned out through Western capitals in a desperate campaign for food and credit. In London, officials from Warsaw's Bank Handlowy met representatives of 20 Western commercial banks to talk about rescheduling loan payments. In Brussels, the European Community agreed to sell Warsaw more meat, dairy products and grain at 15% below the market price. Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski flew to Paris and Washington. The veteran negotiator met with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and won a pledge...
...some more." That idea is sure to be difficult to sell at a time when appetites have been whetted for more labor benefits, not sacrifices. If little else, however, Poles retain a reserve of good, if somewhat grim, humor. A joke making the rounds last week tells of a Warsaw resident who encounters a neighbor going to Katowice, about 165 miles away, to buy some meat. "Why not buy your meat in Warsaw?" he asks...