Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drab Polish industrial city of Lodz has a tradition of defiance dating back to the 1890s, when the city's textile workers staged violent demonstrations against the Russian czarist occupiers. Last week Lodz once again showed its rebellious spirit as 10,000 textile workers, most of them women, went on strike. Their action was a warning to the regime of Party Leader Edward Gierek, who succeeded Wladyslaw Gomulka in December after bloody workers' demonstrations against higher food prices and a cut in earnings...
...question remained, however, whether Gierek's somersault on prices would embolden other workers to make fresh demands next week or the week after. The Polish press launched a campaign obviously inspired by the regime to warn Poles that the latest concessions "reached the absolute last boundary...
Gierek also spent several mysterious hours in Bialystok, near the Soviet border. In the past, the thick forests near Bialystok have sheltered secret meetings between Soviet and Polish leaders. With the 24th Soviet Party Congress scheduled to begin in Moscow on March 30, the Russians are anxious to stabilize the situation next door. For the moment, the Soviets are backing Gierek. If he fails to keep the situation under control, however, the Kremlin may well consider other options...
...Geneva Accord between the great powers which declared Laos to be neutral flew in the face of this political reality. It set up the International Control Commission, made up of Polish, Canadian, and Indian representatives, under a mandate to regulate Laotian neutrality, to police foreign intervention...
Surprisingly, some of the sharpest criticism of Castro is coming from European leftists who have frequently visited Cuba, talked with him and supported his goals. Polish-born Journalist K.S. Karol, who writes out of Paris for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and Britain's New Statesman, is one. His Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution has become required reading for U.S. intelligence and Latin American specialists. French Agronomist Réne Dumont also faults Castro in his Cuba: Is It Socialist...