Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have indeed hurt Poland indirectly by holding up agreement on rescheduling payment of Poland's $27 billion foreign debt. The sanctions have also choked off the flow of Western capital that will be needed if the economy is to revive over the next four years. But, as one Polish intellectual observed: "I never hear anyone on the bus grumbling about Reagan's sanctions. I do hear people complaining that the same idiots are ruining the economy...
...Roman Catholic Church, the other major force in Polish life, has been reluctant to provoke the military government openly, fearing that such a move might lead to more stringent controls and possible "fraternal" assistance from the Soviet Union. Some church sources have conceded in private that Solidarity, as an organization, may have to disappear in order for its ideas to live on. Still, in the absence of any formal opposition to the regime, the church has tried to press the authorities for some form of national dialogue. Last week Archbishop Jozef...
Glemp, the Polish Primate, told a crowd of well over 100,000 pilgrims in Czestochowa: "The dialogue could begin to build toward an agreement and relieve the hatred that can sometimes be invisible when people keep silent and grind their teeth...
...Poles began to mark the two weeks of emotional anniversaries that will climax on Aug. 31, the date when the Polish government signed a national accord two years ago with Solidarity, the true depth of the "invisible" hatred had yet to be measured. However unlikely another outburst of widespread national unrest seemed last week, it still could not be counted out. There is a precedent: two years ago at the Lenin shipyard, when one strike came to an end and another of a totally different sort began...
...prospect of a job to pump information from eager applicants during interviews. That technique has long been in wide use among the 1,300 or so high-tech firms packed together in 250-sq.-mi. Silicon Valley. William H. Bell, a convicted spy who sold military secrets to a Polish agent, described the approach to a congressional committee in May. Said he: "Within the avionics industry, it is a common practice for all companies to obtain secrets of their competitors by the same techniques that the agent used with me. Considerable benefits are dangled in front of the engineer...