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News from Poland this day reported that Military leaders were quoted as saying Martial Law restrictions in that country could be lifted as soon as next month (February).Wojzeck Jaruzelski said certain restriction could be lifted as soon as February, although Warsaw Radio did not specify which restrictions those would be. Jaruzelski was addressing Poland’s Parliament for the first time since the military crackdown six weeks earlier.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko said today he has no intention of discussing Poland’s military crackdown in his talks with US Secretary of State Alexander M Haig Jr Gromyko upon arrival in Geneva today. He said he believed there will be plenty of other things the two can talk about “I have no intention whatsoever of discussing questions relating to Poland or the domestic situation in Poland” he said. He went on to say he was prepared to discuss the state of U.S.-Soviet relations in general along with “many other international problems “What the outcome of these discussions will be I cannot say” Gromyko said “We shall wait and see” Haig told reporters Monday he would “express first-hand and directly the outrage” of the United States and its allies over “the increasing repression in Poland” He also will emphasize “the impact it is having on the general state of Soviet-American relations” a senior US official said.
And on Capitol Hill The 97th Congress returned to work today with its optimism drowned in red ink and legislators reluctantly talking of election-year tax increases to trim projected deficits That painful prospect comes within weeks of final votes on record tax and spending cuts that President Reagan and his followers in Congress had hoped would lead to a balanced budget.
And that’s a small slice of what happened, this January 25th in 1982 as reported by The CBS World News Roundup.
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