Word: polish
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...resorting to a tactic used by all Presidents: taking his case straight to the country. He launched the p.r. drive in a radio address two weeks ago. Reagan called the contras "our brothers" and compared them to such "freedom fighters" as Lafayette, Steuben and Kosciuszko, the French, German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind the Iron Curtain." That statement seemed...
Reagan's State of the Union message was in many ways a restatement of his second Inaugural Address, only delivered with more polish. The President in effect used the prime-time opportunity to give the hard sell to his major programs: tax reform without revenue increases, a continuation of the military buildup in tandem with arms-control talks and a determination to proceed with the controversial Star Wars antimissile defense. If there was any moderately fresh emphasis, it was on reaching out to minorities and the poor, albeit on the terms that the President has always advocated: that economic growth...
...citizens and the system," declared Kujawa solemnly. "They have slandered the good name of Poland." In announcing the sentences, Kujawa drew a distinction between Pietruszka and Piotrowski, whom he described as the decision makers, and their subordinates. Kujawa explained that he chose not to order Piotrowski hanged because Polish law states that punishment should seek to educate and frighten the criminal, not simply avenge the crime. Indeed, lawyers representing Popieluszko's family and his driver, Waldemar Chrostowski, at the trial had mentioned the priest's personal opposition to capital punishment. On the day the verdicts were announced, Popieluszko's relatives...
...murder of Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the banned Solidarity labor union, and the subsequent arrest of the four Polish security officers, had presented the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski with its most formidable challenge since martial law was imposed in 1981. Jaruzelski's decision to prosecute the men publicly offered fellow Poles an unprecedented glimpse into the workings of the country's secret police and defused, at least temporarily, the explosive anger over Popieluszko's death. There is speculation that the murder was engineered by government hard-liners to embarrass Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw...
...prosecutor recommended that each of Piotrowski's partners, Co-Defendants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, receive a sentence of 25 years, the maximum term under Polish law. The men, he said, were following the orders of their superior. The prosecutor also recommended a sentence of 25 years for the fourth defendant, ex-Colonel Adam Pietruszka, who took no physical part in the crime but is accused of having encouraged Piotrowski in its commission. The prosecutor's recommendations are expected to be approved by Presiding Judge Artur Kujawa and his four co-jurists this week...