Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until the story broke through the blackout, coverage of Polish events was dominated by TIME'S Bonn bureau, which relied heavily on its network of contacts in Stockholm, Vienna and Eastern Europe to funnel in information. Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, having returned from Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with...
...Monday night (see Press). With him went 30 precious rolls of his and Burnett's film. Burnett himself left by train two days later. Correspondent Wierzynski, who arrived in West Berlin by train at week's end, reports that "news gathering in Warsaw came down to finding Polish friends who might know something-an account from a person recently returned from another city or from a worker in one of the big plants outside town." A Polish-born American, Wierzynski says, "I left behind family and a country that only a few days ago was alive, blighted...
...Polish [is a] nationality [that is] not so much alive as surviving, which persists in thinking, breathing, speaking, hoping, and suffering in its grave, railed in by a million bayonets...
...World War II, a modern nation was sealed off from the outside world. In the icy cold of a savage winter, the country's telephone and telex lines were cut. What little news reached the West was smuggled out by travelers, or was broadcast over tightly censored Polish radio and television...
...totally broken, so the world was able to watch and listen in horror as Soviet tanks rolled in to crush that country's brief flowering of freedom. This time, as the armed forces seized power in Poland, the Soviets were not visibly involved, at least not yet. But the Polish Communist government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski had taken a lesson from the Prague experience: the outside world would be given little chance to learn details of the takeover...