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...Harvard analysts reacted with dismay and pessimism to reports early this morning that Poland's Communist leaders had declared martial law and initiated a long-awaited crackdown on the country's Solidarity free trade union movement...
Hampered by sketchy information because of a near-total communications blackout, the analysts cited three key unknowns that should emerge: the scope and harshness of the crackdown on the ten-million member union; the reaction of the Catholic church and the Polish masses; and the extent, if any, of Soviet involvement in triggering the Warsaw government's move...
Solidarity's response to the crackdown came quickly today, in the form, as predicted, of a call for a general strike and apparently scattered street demonstrations. The general strike, in all probability, does not mean that workers will stay home tomorrow, observers said; rather, Solidarity plans a call for workers to seize their workplaces--factories, shipyards, coal mines--and barricade themselves inside...
Asked what the U.S. would do "if the crackdown came from Polish internal security forces," rather than Soviet troops Weinberger replied...
...clearly trying to arouse public sentiment against Muslim extremists, claims that the five groups were all fundamentalist organizations linked by a conspiracy "to fight the government and seize power." The ambitions of the conspirators were thwarted on Sept. 25, when many were arrested during Sadat's wide-ranging crackdown on dissenters. Concluding that they were not strong enough to stage a coup, the plotters reportedly concentrated on just assassinating the President. After his death, they also thought of dropping bombs from rooftops on the funeral procession as it wound its way through Cairo's streets. As it turned...