Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received a letter from Pope John Paul II and that the Pontiff "approves what we've done so far." The papal message did not mention the sanctions, and the Vatican issued a statement insisting that the Pope had only praised Reagan for supporting "the aspiration of [Polish] people for liberty...
...demonstrate that the crisis over Poland has passed. In a conciliatory speech, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov said last week, "The Soviet Union is not seeking confrontation. We are doing everything we can to direct the course of events into constructive dialogue." Haig, mindful of appearing soft on the issue of Polish repression, de-emphasized the talks by saying he would attend only one day of meetings, not the planned two. He also told aides that he would deflect questions of a summit meeting soon between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and would resist efforts by Gromyko to bargain toward...
...seemed to be edging away from it. Haig now plans to bring up items like the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and warn that the course of events in Poland will affect START negotiations. Said a State Department spokesman: "The Secretary has emphasized that the continuing repression of the Polish people, in which Soviet responsibility is clear, obviously constitutes a major setback for constructive East-West relations...
...Polish doctor who was shot by invading German troops in 1939, Rakowski emerged from the war a fervent Communist and, for a while, a committed Stalinist. Rakowski's taste for reform developed in 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka became head of the Polish Communist Party, promising greater freedom and economic progress. Under Rakowski's editorship, Polityka refused to join a campaign against the Catholic Church in 1966. In 1968 Rakowski, who was by then a deputy member of the Central Committee, not only refused to support an anti-Semitic purge but protected the Jews who worked...
...said the president's moderate position toward the USSR in the Polish crisis also reflected a move toward moderation from the campaign rhetoric of a year ago, adding that the Western allies in Europe prompted this move...