Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western response to the Polish crisis. There must not be any weakness in the face of those who suppress the Polish people. There are leaders in Europe-I won't mention their names-who, while Afghanistan was being occupied, met with Brezhnev in Warsaw [former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing] or Moscow [West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt], This, to me, was an act of weakness...
...Singer's favored settings are here, from small Polish villages named Frampol or Krasnobrdd to Warsaw's Krochmalna Street ("the part where the Jews lived") to Manhattan's Upper West Side, the neighborhood the author has called home for more than four decades. These specific locales bring forth universal truths. "One place is pretty much like another," says a character in The Destruction of Kreshev. "If they're on the face of the earth, they're all the same...
...name is Maria Victoria Walesa, and since her birth on Jan. 27 the infant daughter of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, 38, has received more attention than any other child born in recent Polish history. From just about everyone, that is, except her father. Interned by Polish military authorities-at a villa near Warsaw-since Dec. 13, Walesa has missed the early weeks of life of his seventh child. News of Maria Victoria's scheduled christening this past weekend near Gdansk was followed closely by millions of Poles. To perk up her own spirits-and maybe even Baby Maria Victoria...
...McKibben speaks would not allow the Conservative Club to participate. They claimed that we were not really concerned about Poland, that we would merely use the opportunity to say something nasty about the Russians. But as Professor Baranczak later observed, anyone who is anti-Soviet is automatically pro-Polish. Christopher S. Forman '83 President, H-R Conservative Club
...Poland, the mind-set was that the army would not act against the Polish people. Never mind that the U.S. Government, most West Europeans and perhaps the Poles believed this too. The press prides itself on listening to a lot of opinions but making up its own mind, and so must share in the error. Some analysts are now convinced that the Polish government was more effective in persuading the army than the Polish people that Solidarity had "gone...