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...Poland has been resoundingly denounced by many leading Eurocommunists, the crackdown has failed to elicit the same kind of emotional response from Europe's pacifists. Accustomed to portraying the U.S. as the chief threat to world peace, leaders of the antinuclear crusade have been confounded by General Wojciech Jaruzelski's move against the Polish workers that had evidently been ordered by Moscow. In all of Europe, only a few thousand have demonstrated against Poland's imposition of martial law, although more than 2 million people had turned out for anti-nuclear weapons rallies in major European cities...
...brutal breaking of workers' strikes by the police and army, the shooting of people, beatings, the internment of many thousands of people in prisons and camps." With those searing words, more than 100 prominent Polish intellectuals and artists last week denounced the martial law regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski in a petition sent to the nation's parliament and Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Roman Catholic primate...
...unrest was reported in the industrial center 175 miles west of the capital. Indeed, Zdzislaw Rozwalak, the leader of the local Solidarity chapter, had promptly furnished the state radio with a statement of support for martial law and condemned the union's behavior. Thus the regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski last week confidently chose Poznan as the showcase site for the first officially organized foreign press trip outside Warsaw since the crackdown began...
...Polish soldiers will not fire on Polish workers." That statement, which is widely believed to have been made by General Wojciech Jaruzelski when workers rebelled in 1976, was often cited in the past year by optimistic Poles who believed that their experiment with liberalization would not end in repression and bloodshed. Despite the fact that the clampdown killed 17 people, by the government's admission, Jaruzelski may have remained true to his pledge-at least in a literal sense. Most of the acts of brutality that have been committed in the five weeks since Jaruzelski imposed martial...
Mieczyslaw Rakowski, the Deputy Premier who has emerged as a trusted associate of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's, is one of the country's ablest and most prominent figures, yet remains one of the most enigmatic. In his 24-year career as editor in chief of the weekly newspaper Polityka, Rakowski, 55, projected the image of that rarest of Communists: a candid advocate of political and economic reform. He was also a link to the West, a charming, multilingual bon vivant who always found time for foreign visitors, especially journalists...