Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In their first free presidential election, Poles received a bracing lesson in an event familiar to every democracy: an upset at the polls. But in Poland's still imperfectly formed democracy, the result was more upsetting than usual. Though he was virtually unknown when he launched his campaign three months...
That has sent Walesa hurrying to mend fences with Mazowiecki, who resigned as Prime Minister one day after his humiliating third-place finish. Mazowiecki fell victim to voter despair over the nation's economic chaos. Poland is undergoing the most radical conversion to private enterprise of any East European country...
While Poles have so far accepted austerity measures that have sharply increased prices, reduced industrial output 30% and pushed unemployment over the 1 million mark in a nation of 38 million, the government acknowledges that there are limits to people's patience. Elsewhere in the region those limits are already...
The smugness of Czechoslovaks may stem from the fact that, along with Hungarians, they are relatively free to travel. Not so for others: although the Iron Curtain has crumbled along the entire length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as...
If East Europeans bridle at such limits on themselves, Poles in particular are beginning to look anxiously eastward to the Soviet Union and hoping that its citizens remain tightly shackled. Should the Soviets do what the West has been urging for decades -- allow its citizens to travel abroad freely -- Poles...