Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardest of hard-liners in the Reagan Administration has been keeping one of the lowest of profiles. He is Richard Pipes, 58, a Polish-born historian on leave from Harvard University, who has served since the Inauguration as the chief expert on Soviet affairs for the National Security Council staff. Before joining the Government, he was an outspoken, highly controversial critic of détente and a leader of the Committee on the Present Danger, a private lobbying group that campaigned against SALT II and in favor of larger defense budgets. Partly because of his reputation for vociferous anti-Sovietism...
...test the effectiveness of the martial law rule, imposed on Dec. 13 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The result, admitted the national press agency PAP, was "not as good as it might be." More direct was the U.S. State Department, which branded Operation Calm "a mockery of all recent Polish government statements to the effect that life is beginning to return to normal in Poland...
Meanwhile, church-state relations seemed to be deteriorating rapidly. TIME has learned that Polish authorities may be contemplating the arrest of several Roman Catholic priests. An article in the party daily Trybuna Ludu accused some priests of involvement "in provocative and offensive political activity." That criticism was echoed three days later in a Radio Warsaw broadcast that charged members of the Catholic clergy with acting "irresponsibly." Specifically, they were criticized for spreading messages and "gossip" during their pastoral visits with the estimated 4,000 Solidarity union members and sympathizers who have been held in detention camps since...
...that some Vatican insiders feared was becoming an overriding papal preoccupation: the crisis in his native Poland. When a group of Poles working in Nigeria caught his attention in the northern city of Kaduna, John Paul suddenly ordered his driver to stop and leaned over to kiss a homemade Polish flag offered by a young boy. While the crowd cheered, he made approving gestures toward a large banner containing the word SOLIDARITY...
Other voices, however, are beginning to demand what to many bankers is unthinkable: declare Poland in default. That would probably trigger a worldwide rush to seize Polish assets located outside the country. It could also push the international banking system toward chaos...