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...they witnessed, along with the Mass, was one of the most courageous displays of free speech since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the spiritual leader of Poland's 33 million Roman Catholics, mounted the carved oak pulpit to attack the excesses of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's military regime...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski announces that the "state of war" in his country has been downgraded to the "state of Mississippi." In the face of criticism from the West, Jaruzelski declares sternly, "This is no different from the United States, the Gulf region to be exact." Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk is reported churning out three sternwheelers a week...
TIME has learned that one factor in decision making at the White House was an intelligence report, received before the imposition of martial law in Poland, that the Soviet Union intended to use General Wojciech Jaruzelski to break the back of the independent Polish trade union movement, Solidarity, and to restore order to both the country and Poland's Communist Party. Jaruzelski, so the report went, might be replaced as First Secretary of the party with a reliably pro-Soviet politician. The report cited martial law as one probable option that Jaruzelski might use to restore the party...
What had begun as Poland's year of liberty ended dramatically in violence, bloodshed and repression. The beleaguered government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, pushed to the wall by Walesa's challenging Solidarity union, confronted with total economic collapse, and pressured by the furious Soviets, struck back in the classic Communist fashion. Its minions came for Walesa at 3 a.m. at his apartment in Gdansk, the gray Baltic seaport whose windswept shipyards had given birth to Solidarity in August 1980. They hustled him aboard a flight to Warsaw and then held him in a government guesthouse south of the city. They...
...West Germans opposed the imposition of sanctions and planned to go ahead with their aid commitments to Poland, which include $17 million in food. The Bonn government is anxious to preserve whatever is left of détente. So it took the position that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish armed forces commander and Premier, had declared martial law not because he was ordered to do so by the Soviet Union, but because he was seeking to ward off Soviet intervention. This view was essentially shared by the British government, which believed that the Soviets had pressed Warsaw to crush Solidarity...