Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan has said, "We should help the Polish people, not the Polish government." The effect is the same. Whatever help we give, the less the Soviets will have to kick in. James J. Cunningham Hatboro...
...free men must react with consternation to the oppressive methods used by the Polish military government under orders from Moscow. The world can no longer permit the Soviets to deny essential freedoms in Eastern Europe even if the cost is thermonuclear war. Alexander P. Grantt Bonita Springs...
...political gap between Western Europe and the U.S. over the Polish crisis exists, all right. But now it is measured in yards rather than miles." So said one French diplomat last week, and, indeed, the distance between Washington and its NATO allies on a joint response to the crackdown in Poland had seemingly narrowed. Meeting in Brussels, the foreign ministers of the ten-member European Community issued a statement promising that the group would avoid actions that might undercut the sanctions imposed by Washington against Moscow two weeks ago. Then, at a summit meeting with President Reagan that had promised...
...refusal to impose sanctions against the Soviet Union. U.S. officials hoped that the Chancellor's toughened stance will pay off this week at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. The ministers prepared a joint declaration, scheduled to be issued Monday, that unequivocally blamed the Soviets for the Polish crackdown. But the allies were not expected to join the U.S. in levying sanctions...
...would be more effective in dealing with Polish wrongs if we recognized other wrongs elsewhere," he told the Forum audience, adding, "Human rights are an element of U.S. foreign policy that will never be lacking...