Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief since May, John Moody too has been observing the buildup for the Pope's visit. He talked with clergymen, officials and ordinary Polish citizens about what the Pope's homecoming might accomplish: "When the experts talk," Moody says, "they use words like spiritual renewal and moral uplift as though they were code words for political pluralism and a return to free trade unionism. But when the Poles talk, it becomes obvious that those intangible qualities-renewal of spirit and outlook-are precisely the things Poles lack most dramatically and desire most...
...olive-drab uniform encrusted with ten rows of ribbons, the very personification of his country's preoccupation with military honor. Next to him stood Pope John Paul II, a golden pectoral cross hanging over his white robes, the representative of a church that is heroically linked in Polish minds with the tribulations of a nation that has, throughout the centuries, suffered invasions, defeats and even dismemberment...
...readiness to end martial law as soon as the situation in Poland "develops successfully." This, he said, could occur at a "not distant date," though he would not be more precise. Jaruzelski gave the Pope two gifts: a breastplate of hussar's armor, from the battle in which Polish troops helped end the Turkish siege of Vienna exactly 300 years ago, and a painting of the Tatra Mountains, in which John Paul enjoyed hiking when he was Archbishop of Cracow...
...Pope's eight-day pilgrimage to his homeland was expected to occur this week, when he met with Lech Walesa, the ebullient, mustachioed electrician who has become an international symbol of the outlawed Solidarity movement. The Pope's conversations with the two main protagonists on the Polish scene would accent the central position that the church continues to occupy there. The visit also underscored the Pope's moral authority. Initially, the government had refused to allow Walesa to see him. It relented only after John Paul insisted upon the session...
...seemed that this year would fail into the same initial rejection pattern. Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received an internationally publicized invitation but was unable to accept. Instead, he offered a text, selections of which President Bok read at the June 9 ceremonies And as a result, the official address was delivered by Mexican writer ambassador Carlos Fuentes...