Word: polish
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China's deafening silence about Soviet involvement in the Polish military crackdown is attributed to the mainland's displeasure over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. There is probably another more important reason for China's reticence: Solidarity. In Peking's view, a free labor union movement poses a greater threat than Soviet hegemony...
...pizazz. The script called for Orson Welles to growl out passages from John Donne between scenes of labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of state to deliver speeches; and a New Jersey native-Frank Sinatra-to sing Ever Homeward, in Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late Tommy Dorsey's band, dreamed up the project shortly after the imposition of martial...
...aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "She didn't know she was going to be on with people like Sinatra." An aide to French President François Mitterrand was more derisive: "It was pure show business, and demeans the idea of showing solidarity with the Polish people...
...program from the law that forbids U.S. distribution of ICA productions. Let Poland Be Poland was to be transmitted over the PBS satellite, but the 297 local PBS affiliates had the option not to air it. Among the stations that declined was KTCA in Minneapolis. Said Stephen Kulczycki, the Polish American vice president of KTCA: "It clearly violates our programming and journalistic standards. We turn down hundreds of requests a month to broadcast someone's propaganda...
...Poland cast a long, dark shadow over all the discussions involving East-West relations." The U.S. believes that there must inevitably be a link between the state of affairs in Poland and Soviet behavior in other parts of the world (see following story). Thus, in the U.S. view, the Polish situation makes it impossible to announce the beginning of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Soviet Union. "President Reagan is very anxious to get on with the START talks," said Haig. "But the political backdrop under which these talks are to be conducted has an important impact...