Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American journalist since the military junta resigned under pressure last July. In recent weeks TIME has run interviews with a host of world figures, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek...
...several fronts. Last week he proposed a cautious 31-point remedy for the nation's economic ills that included a controversial 5% tax surcharge on middle and upper incomes (see THE ECONOMY). He underscored his desire for detente by meeting for the first time with a Communist leader, Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek. He took an unusual midnight ride with several Cabinet members to Andrews Air Force Base to demonstrate wholehearted support of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by seeing him off on his latest trip to the Middle East (see THE WORLD). He lobbied scores of Congressmen...
...trace of limousine liberal snobbery, he is likely to win back much of the ethnic vote that has been deserting to the Republicans. He is aided in this effort by the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Mary Anne Krupsak, 42, who should pick up a sizable share of the Polish and woman's vote...
...MEETING POLISH AMERICANS: In principle I do not assume that I will hold any such meetings while in the U.S.; this is a state visit. Naturally, if Americans of Polish extraction would like to meet with me, then the pleasure is all mine. I will surely encourage them to visit Poland as often as possible, to come and see what has changed in this country. In other words, while being good Americans, to have some sentiment for the country of their forefathers...
...overwhelming impression left by this rich and brooding novel of wartime Poland is of an actual life agonizingly remembered, not of events and characters cut and fitted to the pattern of a story. Although the obliteration of Polish Jews is the horrifying central fact of the book, the central mystery is that of memory and the flow of time. If Anya Savikin, the heroine, had lived in a peaceful age, her memories in middle years would not have been so filled with blood and broken buildings. But her slow sifting of them would probably stir the same feelings of bewilderment...