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Until the story broke through the blackout, coverage of Polish events was dominated by TIME'S Bonn bureau, which relied heavily on its network of contacts in Stockholm, Vienna and Eastern Europe to funnel in information. Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, having returned from Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with...
...Sunday, exactly six hours after the crackdown began, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish party chief and Premier, made a radio address to the country. He declared a state of martial law and announced that henceforth the country would be ruled by a "military council for national salvation." Speaking in a tired voice, he said, "Our country is at the verge of an abyss. The state structure has ceased operating." Solidarity's leaders, he charged, "threaten us with the use of force. They no longer obey the law. Everyone is on strike. They call for confrontation with the Reds...
Those hopes were dashed early Sunday morning, when Polish security troops raided Solidarity's Warsaw headquarters and arrested union officials across the nation. Within hours after the crackdown began, Polish premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of national emergency and imposed martial...
Reports filtering out of the country were sketchy because of a nearly complete communications blackout. The regime halted telex and telephone communications when the crackdown began and grounded all flights to the West. Later in the week, the Associated Press, Reuters, and other Western news agencies also lost their communication links with Poland...
...POLISH GOVERNMENT'S harsh crackdown on the Solidarity workers' movement, and its revocation of the freedoms won so inspiringly by the Polish people over the past 15 months, merit swift and strong condemnation. A protest against this unjustifiable action, featuring two speakers who are veterans of the Polish dissident movement, has been scheduled for the steps of Memorial Church at 1 p.m. today. To express their outrage, and to stay as informed as possible, all members of the University community should attend...