Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several Harvard-affiliated scholars have helped form a nation-wide committee to protest the detention of thousands of civilians by the Polish Military Council last month...
Stephen A. Marglin, professor of Economics, and Hendrik S. Houthakker, Lee Professor of Economics, and Houthakker's wife. Anna-Teresa Tymienieckay, founded the Academic Committee for Democracy in Poland December 16. The committee sent he Polish Embassy in Washington a signed statement calling for the Polish Military Council to "free the detainees immediately, restore them to their normal activities," and "allow them to fulfill their legitimate roles within Polish society...
...committee's main aim is "to alert the academic community to the situation of human rights and specifically to our responsibility to human rights in Poland," Tymienieckay added. Calling herself "nonpolitical." Tymienieckay said her concern about the Polish situation is that she is of Polish descent and her belief that the Poish crises "goes beyond any political concern. The issue at stake is the human rights of a nation to survive, to have a cultural identity...
Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, and a member of the committee, said he did not expect to received a written answer from the Polish Military Council. "It's not their custom" to respond to foreign protests, Baranczak said, but he added that the pressure of opinion, "especially from influential parties at Harvard," could be important...
...Polish officials "will see that they can't commit their crimes with impunity," Baranczak said, adding, "Unfortunately, we are helpless in not being able to impose any concrete sanctions...