Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polish people rallied around a proud union in a drive for more bread and more freedom. Under Soviet direction, the Communist establishment responded with quick and bloody punishment. The Israelis bravely surrendered the Sinai as the last provision of their peace with Egypt but simultaneously stepped up a dangerous expansion into the Golan Heights. Arab nations continued their policy of constant confrontation, and neither side moved toward the adoption of joint responsibility for the Palestinians. The United States, meanwhile, set forth no clear foreign policy other than that of threatening renewed American military might, with which we will presumably recapture...
Reflecting the restive national mood, the Experience and Future Group, an unofficial forum of intellectuals and liberal Communist Party members, sent a 67-page paper to General Wojciech Jaruzelski assessing military rule. Labeling martial law "an alien and unknown act in Polish traditions," the document called on the authorities to form a genuine partnership with society. Concluded the report: "After 100 days of martial law, it is evident that what happened between August 1980 and December 1981 cannot be erased from human memory and from the life of society." The newswalkers of Swidnik and millions of Poles like them seem...
...bone-wearying agenda-with the 42nd revision in the schedule made practically as the Pope was en route to London on Friday. On Pentecost Sunday, he appeared before gatherings of British-Polish groups in south London, then went on to Coventry and Liverpool. Shrewdly, for Liverpool, the Pontiff planned visits to the cathedrals of both Anglican and Catholic communions. On Monday, after visiting Manchester and York, the Pope's schedule took him to Edinburgh. On Tuesday, his plans called for an ecumenical meeting with representatives of Scottish churches, then a quick series of appearances at events around Glasgow...
...such discussion since the Council of Florence in 1439. The always suspicious Church of Greece is wary, and the Russian Orthodox Church would never be able to unite with Rome unless the Kremlin agreed. The prospects for that have hardly been enhanced by a Pontiff who is by birth Polish and by public announcement a supporter of the Solidarity union...
...festival's special 35th-anniversary citation. The screenplay prize went to Skoli-mowski for Moonlighting, about four Poles in London building a new home for their boss back in Poland. With the help of Jeremy Irons as the foreman, Moonlighting proved how deft and poignant a Polish joke could be. Godard's film, Passion, turned out to have everything but. It focused on living tableaux of old paintings as the cast members of an imaginary film agitated for Polish Solidarity...