Tensions mount Soviet bloc censures Poland
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Spring feve r has de fin ite ly h it th is Domer, as she takes to the trees to express her jo y over the weather. (P hoto by Greg M aurer) PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (A P) — Backed by a solem n Leonid I. Brezhnev, Czechoslovakia on yes terday escalated the Soviet bloc at tack on Poland's leadership for failure to restore o rd e r in the crisisracked country. Gustav Husak, Czechoslovak Com m unist Party head, said in a th ree hour speech to a Com m unist Party Congress that Polish leaders had adm itted tw o m onths ago the country faced anarchy but still had not resto red order. “The fact that the political crisis is stll continuing and intensifying fills us all the m ore w ith apprehension," declared Husak. Brezhnev, the Soviet president and pary leader, is the only foreign head o f state at the congress and his surprise attendance has the Reagan adm inistration paying close atten tion to the session. In 1968 Brezhnev ordered the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia to halt efforts by Czechoslovakian com m unists to p rom ote “socialism w ith a human face." The Kremlin also enunciated the “Brezhnev D octrine” in 1968, w hich claim ed that the Soviets had the right to intervene in any bloc country to safeguard the com m unist system. Warsaw Pact military exercises continued in and around Poland in what the U.S. defense secretary said was apparently an attem pt to in tim idate the Poles. Husak equated dem ands by Poland’s independent union Solidarity w ith the revolt in Hungary in 1956 and a liberalization drive in Czechoslovakia in 1968 — both crushed by the Red Army. He declared that Soviet b loc countries would “defend their in terests and the socialist achievem ents o f their people.” “We are not hiding the fact that ou r people are following the events in fraternal Poland w ith disquiet," he said. Husak called for a conference o f w orld com m unist leaders, saying the West has tried to “pull one o r the o ther country out o f the socialist family" and is doing it again in Poland. Husak s w ords appeared to signal still m ore Soviet b loc pressure on the leadership o f Polish party leader Stanislaw Kania, w ho was represented by staunch Solidarity
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