Word: polese
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In fact, Poles had plenty to be angry about right at home. Consumer price hikes of up to 400% took effect last week, and stunned shoppers were grumbling bitterly about the soaring cost of living.
At the Treasury and State Departments, however, officials argue that there is nothing to be gained at the moment by declaring default. The current payments merely continue the process, which was begun last year, of rescheduling Poland's debt obligations. The U.S. action does not relieve Warsaw of the...
Nonetheless, it is equally clear that French refusal to sign the contract with the Soviets would have had little if any impact on Poland. Certainly, it would not have prompted the Russians to pressure Jaruzelski to lift martial law. By doing "business as usual" with the U.S.S.R, the French communicate...
But the editor added that Rurarz describes the crisis as largely an internal Polish matter, emphasizing that the Poles themselves control the fate of their country.
But the show did get scattered applause. West Germany's newspaper Die Welt marveled at American "spontaneity and verve in coping with things recognized as right." While observing that such an enterprise "could only happen under Ronald Reagan," the Montreal Gazette was approving: "Though Poles can no longer speak...