Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow's tough talk was backed up by extensive Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. The war games, originally scheduled to end last week, were prolonged indefinitely. Lengthy nightly television reports gave Poles a chilling view of amphibious landings, mock tank battles and simulated aerial assaults. Warsaw Pact maneuvers had preceded the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; the message was not lost on the Poles...
...only did the other side have an army, but that army had some awesome guests on hand last week. The Bydgoszcz protests coincided with the beginning of "Soyuz 81" maneuvers to test Warsaw Pact military communications. The maneuvers were centered at Legnica, headquarters for the 40,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland. They made it even easier for Moscow to move against Solidarity if it wanted to. Thus Walesa was cautiously trying to avoid any confrontation...
Neither the popular labor leader nor the head of Warsaw's Communist government had much control over the most incendiary threat: the potential for armed Soviet intervention. If Moscow were to decide on such a move, a possible cover might be provided by the Warsaw Pact maneuvers scheduled to take place in and around Poland later this month. Though most Western analysts doubted that any imminent invasion plan was connected with the Warsaw Pact maneuvers, which are routinely held in the spring, Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated a sharp U.S. warning. A Soviet intervention, he said, would have...
...East bloc newspapers bannered the Moscow communique on their front pages, tensions rose palpably in Western capitals. For the first time in five weeks, Reagan Administration officials publicly warned of the "grave consequences" of outside intervention. State Department Spokesman William J. Dyess expressed concern over Warsaw Pact maneuvers, due to take place in and around Poland in late March and early April. Though such war games are regularly held in the spring, Dyess said the Administration was "watching [the situation] very carefully" in light of the new Soviet pressure on Poland...
Arms Control and International Security. Christopher D. Jones, formerly a professor at the University of Marquette, has been working at the center for two years. An expert in arms control and Soviet political affairs, he is now studying Soviet military exercises and doctrine. His thesis: The Warsaw pact is primarily concerned with internal control, not external antagonism...