Word: polish
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...force to carry out its foreign policy. Reagan claims that ending registration would send the wrong signal to the Soviet Union during the crisis in Poland. While determining an appropriate response to events in Poland is difficult, attempting to register 18-year-old men does nothing to help the Polish people, but does heighten international tension...
Ranking Administration officials adamantly denied reports (already confirmed from sources within the White House) that the Polish crisis inspired Reagan's decision. But what of the on-the-record explanation? The Selective Service System, which administers registration, has insisted for almost a year that it initially underestimated how much time the sign-up could save. Why is Reagan only discovering the information now? And beyond the question of who knew what and when, how have these estimates been compiled? Why have there been such large discrepancies? And where is the plan for integrating four million 18-year-olds into...
...WARSAW--Polish authorities yesterday lifted several martial law restrictions, but Pope John Paul II nonetheless condemned his native government for its persecution of the Polish people...
...administration has denied that the Polish crisis and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union had anything to do with the president's decision. What is your opinion of the administration's explanation that the decision was based solely on new statistics indicating that registration would significantly speed up a potential mobilization...
Among the many candles that have been lighted in honor of the free Polish spirit, Man of Marble and Man of Iron seem to be the least likely to gutter out as time goes on. It is possible, in fact, that these films of Wajda's (who last week was still reported under arrest in Poland, along with other artists and intellectuals) may become perpetual flames in the perpetual struggle against tyranny...