Word: polese
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"They should know that we cannot be beaten," said a 30-year-old Pole. "It may take three or five years, but we will be back." That sort of spirit has made it impossible to "beat" the Poles for centuries. But in a way it has also kept the Poles...
What really galls the Poles this time is that they have defeated themselves-temporarily, of course. The nation that secretly derided the people of Czechoslovakia for offering no resistance in 1968 must now admit that it has not lived up to that brave slogan so often heard since August 1980...
And whereas it took five Warsaw Pact armies to end the Prague Spring, the Polish August was frozen by the pride of the nation, by the sons and brothers of Solidarity members. The Polish army was the last official institution with any popular trust. That is finished now. Even the...
Some 500 Western banks and the Polish government last week were playing a multibillion-dollar game of financial chicken. On the one side, some American and European financiers contemplated seizing Polish bank accounts, ships or airliners if the Warsaw government fails to make a $500 million interest payment by the...
Poland has been on the brink of defaulting on its loans for almost a year. During the summer and fall, private bankers and Polish authorities negotiated a program to give Warsaw more time to pay off its debts. In an agreement reached in November, the Western bankers said that they...