Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks Poland's ruling junta has been dropping hints that it might lift martial law this week on the first anniversary of the military crackdown. But as Dec. 13 approached, the official propaganda machine began to sound a decidedly cautious note. Newspapers ran interviews with "average" Poles who expressed concern that it might be too soon to ease security measures. The government freed 32 imprisoned Solidarity activists from the Warsaw area, but suggested that many union leaders still behind bars (an estimated 300) would stay there. A front-page headline in a Warsaw daily seemed...
...special session of parliament, scheduled to begin deliberations this week, will have to decide what to do about martial law, but it looks as if General Wojciech Jaruzelski intends to lift it in name only. The government will still be able to imprison opponents without trial, militarize industry and ban unauthorized public gatherings. Said a Western diplomat: "The whole exercise is primarily for propaganda purposes, but I am not sure if it is intended more for the Polish people or for Western governments...
...Western audience. Government officials estimate that Poland will need about $3 billion in new credits next year to revitalize the economy and meet its obligations on an estimated $25 billion debt to the West. So far, Warsaw's show of reform has not persuaded Western governments to lift economic sanctions...
...rising tide of residential purchases should also give a lift to many of the other things that make a house a home. Furniture manufacturers, whose business has been depressed for the past five years, expect 1983 sales to rise a healthy 20%. Experts estimate that every home sale eventually leads to the purchase of four major appliances, such as dishwashers and clothes dryers, to go with the house...
...than any weakness toward Poland's still rebellious population. Now the focus is on a special session of parliament that has been set for Dec. 13, the first anniversary of the military crackdown. Many Poles believe that Jaruzelski, who has successfully contained resistance, will choose that day to lift martial law altogether...