Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WARSAW--Polish Prime Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak said yesterday he is ready to resign and abandon his bid to form a new government so that the head of the smaller United Peasant Party, Roman Malinowski, can form a coalition government...
...church buildings, established their own bimonthly magazine and, as of three weeks ago, are producing a TV show that is seen each Sunday. The man responsible for the new religious freedoms, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Italy in November and is almost certain to pay a historic visit to the Polish Pontiff. It would be the first meeting ever between a Pope and a Soviet leader...
Bush wants to have regular meetings with Gorbachev, as did Reagan, but scheduling that first one in this environment of high expectations is ticklish. Gorbachev and his Polish and Hungarian cohorts cannot yet be made members of the open-market club, though they have such yearnings. But Bush hopes that there may be some way to bring the Communists closer to provisional entry into the free-market system. Bush, like most modern Presidents, is captivated by confronting the problem and devising solutions. The hunch here is that in the next three or four months, Bush and Gorbachev will meet...
There is some indication that Bush's visit to Eastern Europe last month helped resolve the deadlock over the Polish presidency; General Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed to run and narrowly won with the tolerance of Solidarity's Lech Walesa. The diplomatic and intelligence assessments of the President's personal diplomacy have generally been good, emphasizing that a network embracing Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow is a going concern...
...package to the heavilyindebted Polish economy has been described most favorably as "modest." He is Poland's friend, too--Solidarity leader Lech Walesa felt humble serving Bush a meal in his home. But Bush has done little to help the Polish economy recover from its sorry state...