Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the country, meanwhile, there was little reaction to Reagan's sanctions except in Polish-American communities, where sentiment was predictably strong. "He is going in the right direction," said Stefan Harvey, president of the Southern California division of the Polish-American Congress. "But he didn't go far enough." Still, even the ethnic Poles recognized, as did many other Americans, that for now about all Washington could do to protest the repression in Poland was brandish symbols of anger and dismay. "It is better than doing nothing, but not much," said Zygmunt Kolicki, a construction worker from...
Silverman, 60, who describes himself as a political "independent," is a senior partner with the corporate law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson. (Another partner: Sargent Shriver, Senator Edward Kennedy's brother-in-law, and Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1972.) The son of Polish immigrants, Silverman won a scholarship to Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the law review. Although he once served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and an Assistant Deputy Attorney General under Eisenhower, his 30-year career has been largely devoted to private practice. Said Silverman...
Archbishop Luigi Poggi, a Vatican diplomat-at-large whose primary function is to maintain contact between the Holy See and the Polish government, returned to Rome following a week-long visit to Poland. While there, he had met with Jaruzelski and delivered a papal message urging an end to martial law. Poggi professed to see "some rays of hope" and even "the possibility of a reconciliation." Mediation with the Jaruzelski regime is being conducted not by the church directly but through a "social council" made up of Catholic laymen. Among them is a close friend of the Pope, Jerzy Turowicz...
...church has no illusions about restoring the "Polish Spring" of Solidarity, but it is seeking to make life under martial law as bearable as possible for the Polish people. The church is also trying to ease conditions for the detainees and to improve the arrangements for distributing relief supplies. According to Vatican sources, the Pope realizes that the church and the people are powerless against the regime's tanks and guns, and that violent resistance would only lead to a bloodbath and probably to a Soviet invasion...
...style democracy. As things now stand, the Pope simply hopes that Poland can evolve into a kind of Yugoslav-style Communist state. Some diplomats in the Vatican believe Jaruzelski has the makings of a Tito. The Vatican's strategy thus is to approach the crackdown as an internal Polish matter, and to seek to avoid making it an international crisis...