Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week later, regular five-car, six-night-a-week service from both Chicago and Washington will begin, with American-European Express running as self- contained segments of regular Amtrak trains. "On the seventh day," says Bill Spann, the Panama City resort owner who heads the venture, "we polish mahogany." There is a lot to polish, all solid wood, installed by cabinetmakers who usually work on yachts...
...black marble monument stands in a grove in the Katyn Forest outside Smolensk, a memorial to the more than 4,000 Polish officers massacred at that spot during World War II. But the dedication etched in the marble tells a lie that mocks the very lives it memorializes: "To the victims of Fascism -- the Polish officers shot by the Hitlerites...
...Their interests are linked to the export of wealth. They import perfumes or nail polish and want us to use our hard-earned dollars from coffee ((exports)) on these frivolities. We say no; our dollars will go for machines...
...breaking free unevenly. Poland and Hungary lead the way, East Germany is groping to catch up, and Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania remain far behind. As the participants -- even Gorbachev -- improvise from one day to the next, old alliances are being strained. "Almost overnight," says Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences, "all the rivalries and tensions in the bloc that Communist orthodoxy had papered over for decades burst into the open...
...discussion of disintegrating military alliances leads to the question of German reunification. And that prospect will probably keep the Poles firmly tethered to the Warsaw Pact. Polish mistrust of the Germans cuts deep, dating back to the 13th century. Logic dictates that Poland, repeatedly divided during the 18th and 19th centuries, should sympathize with the Germanys' desire to reunite. But the thought of 78 million Germans under one flag next door is enough to give even the most zealous reformer pause. "We already detect a growth of German assertiveness," warns a leading Polish economist. Says Bromke: "The Warsaw Pact...