Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...propaganda and economic war" against his country. He charged that "psychological warfare services," presumably meaning Radio Free Europe, originated the widespread resistance slogan, "The winter is yours, the spring will be ours." Said he: "The spring will be neither 'ours' nor 'yours,' but simply Polish and socialist." The general blamed U.S. sanctions for aggravating food shortages by suspending poultry feed shipments and excluding Polish fishing fleets from American waters. Although the Central Committee had little to offer in the way of economic solutions, the nalion's parliament met at week's end and passed...
Poland's economic problems were complicated by a new wave of foreign sanctions last week. The governments of Canada and Japan indefinitely suspended negotiations over rescheduling Polish debt payments due this year and imposed severe restrictions on most new credits to Poland. The Japanese also postponed official trade talks with the Soviets. Foreign ministers of the European Community, meanwhile, agreed to put a mild squeeze on Moscow by increasing the interest on Soviet export credits and limiting some Soviet imports...
...Western attempts to encourage moderation seem to be having little effect on Warsaw. Hardening their position on the future of Solidarity, Polish authorities launched their first full-scale propaganda attack on Union Leader Lech Walesa, who is still interned in a government villa near the capital. The army daily Zolnierz Wolnosci accused Walesa and other union leaders of deciding in December that "the gallows have to be built" for the Communists. The union leader was personally denounced by the Polish Press Agency as a "front for the anti-Communist crusade" and a traitor to "working-class interests." In an interview...
...their common stand. Their solemn communique blamed Soviet "pressure and concourse" for events in Poland, and called for the repeal of martial law, the release of union members and talks between the government, the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. Said the declaration: "The repressive measures taken by the Polish leadership under pressure from, and backed by, the Soviet Union, constitute a violation of human rights and of the Helsinki Final Act, and place a heavy mortgage on East-West relations...
...Western banks and governments are discovering, collecting overdue loans from Eastern European countries is an exercise in smothering fires that never quite die. Not only is the Polish government broke and in debt to Western creditors for upwards of $28 billion, but all of a sudden the Communist bloc has produced another potential billion-dollar deadbeat: Rumania...