Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan juices were flowing when the President sat down a fortnight ago at his ranch to give one of his radio exhortations. When he saw the mike, he was seized by a latent actor's impulse to perform. And because the topic of the hour was the Polish government's move to outlaw Solidarity, his molten aversion to Communism bubbled to the surface. To test the sound equipment and his own pipes, he said firmly: "My fellow Americans, yesterday the Polish government, a military dictatorship, a bunch of no-good lousy bums...
Western reaction was mixed. Asked to comment on the Polish situation shortly after the vote, President Ronald Reagan snapped, "I think it's horrible." At week's end he vowed to move as quickly as possible to suspend Poland's most-favored-nation trading status, which will result in increased import duties on more than $50 million in Polish goods sent to the U.S. Sharing Reagan's outrage, French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy declared that the union law was "yet another attack against individual liberty and the rights of man." He added that the law would...
...corridors inside are long, green and dimly lit; the walls are bare except for a spray of handwritten signs and arrows and random words scrawled on them, often in several handwritings. One of these appears every few yards: "Polish, Hebrew, Chinese." "Sufism, Hebrew, Polish, Czech." "Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Tech Writing." "Turkish in 6 Divinity...
...DIFFICULT to see the Irony in the Polish government's decision last Friday to officially ban the Solidarity Union. After all, since martial law was imposed in December, more than 600 Solidarity officials have been interned and the union's activities suspended. What, you could ask, was there left to outlaw...
Quite simply, General Jaruzelski wants to de-legalize the spirit and determination of the Polish people. Since December, Solidarity has continued to function underground, distributing leaflets, keeping the structure of the union intact, planning for the future. Although Solidarity was suspended, the hope was there that it might someday be allowed to resume its activities. Jaruzelski is trying to crush that hope...