Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the week, Pope John Paul deliberately muffled his criticism of the Warsaw government, appealing for "a peaceful solution to the mutual collaboration between authorities and citizens." But at the end of his annual Christmas message, the Pope declared, in Polish, that he was sending an embrace to "all of Poland, our common homeland," including "those here in the square who represent Solidarity and all those listening on the radio...
...Archbishop Luigi Poggi, to Poland to meet with the military government, which in turn was holding talks with a committee of leading Catholic laymen. Poggi delivered a letter from the Pope to Jaruzelski and had a long discussion with him. The Pope also received a personal report on the Polish situation from Polish Bishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, who had twice visited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa in detention. What was most interesting about these diplomatic contacts between the Warsaw government and the Vatican was the implication that Poland's present rulers would welcome the support of the church in the event...
...whereas it took five Warsaw Pact armies to end the Prague Spring, the Polish August was frozen by the pride of the nation, by the sons and brothers of Solidarity members. The Polish army was the last official institution with any popular trust. That is finished now. Even the cowed population of Warsaw openly shows its hatred. Obscene gestures are made at passing armored columns. The Poles have taken the acronym of the ruling military council WRON, and added an A to produce WRONA, crow in Polish. "Crow" was what Poles called the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, after...
Some 500 Western banks and the Polish government last week were playing a multibillion-dollar game of financial chicken. On the one side, some American and European financiers contemplated seizing Polish bank accounts, ships or airliners if the Warsaw government fails to make a $500 million interest payment by the end of the year. If just one of the banks started to grab Polish assets, it could set off a dash for cash that would threaten the stability of international banking by calling down an avalanche of lawsuits, tightening credit around the world, and perhaps causing some financial failures...
Representatives of eight of the European and American banks, acting on behalf of all the Western banks that have made loans to Poland, met last week at a Zurich hotel to discuss the latest Polish loan request. Earlier, six major U.S. banks decided in New York City to deny any additional money for the time being. But after eight hours of talks in Zurich, the bankers broke up, concluding that they had little choice but to let the Polish debt problem drag into the new year...