Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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POLAND--President Bush, in a day of high symbolism and support for Poland's strides toward democracy, yesterday offered a modest economic aid package intended to help "redeem the promise of a free Polish republic...
...dimensions of the U.S. offer could fall short of Lech Walesa's aspirations. The leader of the Solidarity trade union movement is expected to ask Bush today when they meet in Gdansk to back a $10 billion program of international help for Poland...
Even so, a clearly exhilarated Bush assured the Polish parliament, where Solidarity holds 260 of the 560 seats, that "the Western democracies will stand with the Polish people, and other peoples of this region...
...Bush stressed that the aid would come with a string attached--that Poland would have to adopt austerity measures...
...politics is always more fun than government. And Bush, after all, won the White House last year by visiting flag factories and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Whatever the lawyers' cautions, any good politician knows another axiom: Dance with the one what brung...