Word: polish
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...date, Haig has won most of these clashes: the Reagan Administration is pursuing arms-control talks with the Soviets, and it has not called a default on the Polish loans. But he cannot be sure that his advantage will hold. While Reagan has been listening to Haig on policy, the Secretary of State never will have the kind of intimacy with the President enjoyed by Weinberger, an amiable, laid-back Californian who has been close to Reagan since he drew up budgets for the Governor of the Golden State in the 1960s...
However, Jatras said that restrictions on Umnov's visit are unrelated to U.S. sanctions on technology transfer to the Soviet Union because of the Polish situation. This is "a policy we've always pursued," he added...
...audience of Western labor leaders and Solidarity exiles that the banned union was "an authentic representative of the workers." He added that the full restoration of Solidarity's rights was "the only road out of this difficult situation." Despite the Pope's intense interest in the Polish question, Vatican sources say that he will leave the forging of church strategy in Glemp's hands...
Glemp pins his hopes on a peaceful dialogue between the regime and the outlawed union. Polish authorities have indicated that they are ready to begin serious talks soon. But the key figure in any such negotiations, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, has been held virtually incommunicado since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Walesa, who has reportedly been held at four locations near Warsaw, has managed to smuggle out several messages, although their authenticity cannot be confirmed. The Warsaw branch of Solidarity's underground last week published what it said was a letter that Walesa had scrawled...
Unbaptized, unnamed, and as yet unseen by her father, the tiny raven-haired baby-the seventh child-was born in Gdansk, Poland, on Jan. 27. Her father, Lech Walesa, 38, was far away, interned by the Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would...