inter/national news
From Associated Prsss rsports
Polish government
imposes martial law
WARSAW, Poland
Poland's new martial law regime
flew Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa to Warsaw on Sunday
for talks aimed at heading off a
nationwide strike urged by un
ion militants defying proclama
tions of a state of emergency
Martial rule was imposed ear
ly Sunday after Solidarity called
for a nationwide vote on
whether to retain communism
Authorities were reported to
have interned an estimated
1,000 people around the
country
The new military regime an
nounced that all but religious
meetings were banned, the right
to strike or protest suspended,
sale of gasoline prohibited and
unofficial distribution of infor
mation outlawed All normal
communications in the country
were cut, and the nation's
borders were sealed
Troops and armored person
nel carriers took up key posi
tions around Warsaw
Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the
Roman Catholic primate of
Poland, pleaded with the nation
in a broadcast sermon to remain
peaceful and not “give your
lives away ”
The state-run news media
reported about 200 demonstra
tors at the Solidarity building in
the capital were dispersed with
fire hoses It was the only
reported street agitation in the
otherwise apparently calm city
Government spokesman
Jerzy Urban told foreign
reporters that Walesa was "be
ing treated with all due respect
He is considered the head of
Solidarity and Solidarity's ac
tivities have only been sus
pended." Officials said Walesa
was flown to Warsaw from
Gdansk hours after martial law
was declared early Sunday
Late Sunday there was no
report of the outcome of the
talks with Walesa Warsaw
Radio reported that Cabinet
members met to evaluate the
situation The broadcast said
"principles for work of the
government have been defined
as well as the most urgent tasks
resulting from the present,
extraordinary situation."
The East German news
agency ADN quoted Urban as
saying at the news conference
that Walesa was among the
Solidarity leaders interned, but
later withdrew its report
In Washington, Pres Reagan
said the United States had made
it clear "how seriously we would
view any interference in
Poland" by the Soviet Union
Secretary of State Alexander
Haig announced in Brussels,
Belgium, that he was canceling
a Middle East trip to return to
Washington on Monday and
keep watch on Polish develop
ments
The State Department in Wa
shington held separate talks
with Soviet and Polish dip
lomats
Western nations
express concern
LONDON
Western governments Sun
day expressed deep concern at
the declaration of martial law in
Poland, and protesters
thronged outside Polish em
bassies in several capital cities
Western labor leaders
demanded the immediate
release of detained officials and
supporters of Poland’s in
dependent trade union,
Solidarity
US Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger, speaking
as he left London for home after
a four-day visit, expressed fears
"that the beginning of freedom
in Poland may be stamped out
again ”
The Soviet news agency Tass
blamed developments on ‘ ex
tremist actions of Solidarity
leaders’’ and said Poland's
Communist leaders acted in re
sponse to 'anarchy facing the
country.”
Polish-born Pope John Paul II
urged prayers for peace in his
native land, recalling the hor
rors it experienced in World War
II.
“The events of the last few
hours make it necessary from
me once again to address the
cause of our country so that you
may pray for it,” he said in
Polish at the end of Sunday
noon blessing before 30,000
people in the Vatican's St
Peter's Square
The 70-million-member Inter
national Confederation of Free
Trade Unions, the world’s lar
gest non-Communist trade
group, said it was “shocked,”
particularly at the occupation of
Solidarity headquarters and the
arrest of some leaders
“The ICFTU urges their
immediate release,” the federa
tion said in a statement at its
Brussels headquarters,
Italy's Communist Party, the
largest in the West, said the
martial law declaration “alarms
us deeply Every aspect of
the way the (Polish) government
has chosen to solve a political
problem must be condemned.”
In London, nearly 1,000
demonstrators, including two
British legislators and Poles
wearing Solidarity badges and
singing hymns, gathered in an
emotional demonstration out
side the securely locked Polish
Embassy in the capital's West
End
There were similar demon
strations at or near the Polish
embassies in Vienna, Oslo,
Brussels, Paris and Rome, and
in Athens 1,000 left-wing pro
testers marched to the Par
liament building
In New York, 250 people
gathered in front of the Polish
consulate, chanting "Long Live
Lech Walesa!” and "Freedom
for Poland!”
As darkness fell in Paris,
3,000-4,000 people led by
Trotskyites and members of
other splinter communist or
ganizations milled on the In
valides Esplanade near the
Polish Embassy
Polish-Americans
voice despair
Polish-Americans worried
about relatives, friends and the
fate of their motherland ex
pressed despair and dismay
Sunday after the Polish
government's sudden crack
down on the independent labor
union Solidarity.
"I have lost all hope for a
better Poland," said Jan Krason
in Denver The geologist, who
came to this country 12 years
ago, has two brothers and four
sisters in Poland.
Though many said the impo
sition of martial law Saturday
night was not a surprise,
workers, intellectuals, scholars,
immigrants and clergyman
joined in the chorus of protest.
"I'm afraid for the lives of
thousands of Solidarity leaders
in Poland and for the fate of
millions," said Irene Lasote,
who said she was in Poland
during student demonstrations
in 1968
Most communications with
the eastern European nation
were cut, adding to the uncer
tainty. Some Polish-American
activists voiced fears of a civil
war reminiscent of the 1956
uprising in Hungary if Lech
Walesa, the head of Solidarity,
were arrested by Polish police.
“They would resist with every
possible means and demand
release of Walesa," said Stefan
Harvey in Los Angeles. He is
president of the southern
California chapter of the Polish
American Congress
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