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Article: Jaruzelski Threatens to Use Army if Protests, Strikes Jeopardize Socialism
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- The Washington Post
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- March 1, 1989
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Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared today that the
country's situation has been "dangerously worsened by a festival of
strikes and protests" and he warned that the Army is prepared to
ensure that the country "will not be pushed from socialism's road."
The tough speech to a meeting of military officers, delivered in
Bydgoszcz yesterday and prominently reported in the state press
today, came after violent demonstrations by students in Krakow last
week and appeared designed to reassure the party's security apparatus
as well as remind Poles of the 1981 imposition of martial law.
Referring to "doubts and questions over the future of Poland, her
secure, safe socialist development," ...