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...former Polish ambassador who defected to the United States shortly after the military crackdown in his country will publish his first account of the Polish crisis in this week's edition of the Harvard International Review...
...exclusive article written by Zdzislaw Rurarz, former Polish ambassador to Japan, discusses why the crackdown occurred when it did and gives a moderately optimistic assessment of the passive resistance campaign being carried on by Solidarity, said Tod H. Loofbourrow '84, editor-in-chief of the undergraduate Review...
China's deafening silence about Soviet involvement in the Polish military crackdown is attributed to the mainland's displeasure over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. There is probably another more important reason for China's reticence: Solidarity. In Peking's view, a free labor union movement poses a greater threat than Soviet hegemony...
...trip to Europe and the Middle East last week than U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig tipped his hand. During his first stopover, in Geneva, he told the world that he would tell Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the "outrage" felt by the U.S. over the Soviet-backed crackdown in Poland. The poker-faced Gromyko, who in his time has dealt with eight American Secretaries of State, responded that he had "absolutely no intention" of discussing Poland. The meeting promised, as Haig then observed, to be a "very short...
...sign of the government's bad faith was that it waited until after the crackdown to carry out its first significant economic "reform": price hikes of up to 400% on food and other necessities. Solidarity had previously agreed that subsidized food prices would have to rise, but the government had refused to grant what the union was asking in exchange: the right to monitor economic data. Says Andrzej Wolowski, who formerly directed Solidarity's international relations and now lives in Paris: "Things would not have got so tense politically if the government had accepted our practical suggestions...