Word: polese
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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...
After Solidarity candidates swept last year's parliamentary elections, it was Walesa who chose Mazowiecki, then a close adviser, to serve as Prime Minister. Walesa expected to be a power behind the throne, but Mazowiecki kept his old colleague at arm's length. Walesa brought his resentment onto the campaign...
Yet Poles knew almost nothing about him. Only now is a more detailed profile emerging -- and its shape is strange and sometimes contradictory. Tyminski slipped out of Poland in 1969, apparently on a tourist visa, and eventually reached Canada, where he studied computer science. In 1975 he founded his own...
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...