While the imposition of martial law in Poland has been resoundingly denounced by many leading Eurocommunists, the crackdown has failed to elicit the same kind of emotional response from Europe's pacifists. Accustomed to portraying the U.S. as the chief threat to world peace, leaders of the antinuclear crusade have been confounded by General Wojciech Jaruzelski's move against the Polish workers that had evidently been ordered by Moscow. In all of Europe, only a few thousand have demonstrated against Poland's imposition of martial law, although more than 2 million people had turned out for...
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