Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the military cracked down last week in Poland, TIME'S team was on the inside, behind the wall of silence, pushing to get the story out. The night that a "state of war" was declared by the Polish government, Correspondents Richard Hornik and Gregory Wierzynski and Photographer Henri Bureau were already in Gdansk, covering what turned out to be the last meeting of the Solidarity union's national commission. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, was in Warsaw. In the capital, at least at first, near normality reigned-sunshine, snow and only a few soldiers. "Getting...
Though the Polish people have seen the level of political pressure rise and fall repeatedly throughout the past year and a half, they had realized for several days that the nation might be approaching a crisis. Early last week the government launched a propaganda barrage against Solidarity by broadcasting over the state radio some tape-recorded excerpts from a closed-door meeting of the union's leadership. The excerpts accounted for only about 30 minutes of what had been a twelve-hour discussion, but they tended to portray the leaders as troublesome and uncompromising. Walesa was quoted as having...
...peace and cause a grave social conflict." Following his talk with Walesa, there were rumors that the two might meet with Jaruzelski. But such a meeting was not arranged, and Walesa returned to Gdansk. For his efforts at peacemaking, the Archbishop received a blast from Moscow, which accused the Polish Catholic Church of stirring up "anti-Communist sentiment...
...important indication of the fear of government action in Poland was the fact that some 33,000 Poles have fled to Austria as refugees since last January. In addition, many of the 30,000 Polish "tourists" now in Austria are expected to seek resettlement. Of the 33,000 official refugees, only 6,700 have thus far received immigration visas to enter the U.S., Canada or Australia. Last week the Austrian government suspended a 1972 agreement that permitted Poles to travel to Austria without first obtaining visas. As a Vienna newspaper put it, "The government has decided that this country...
...government have been testing each other since the union came into existence 16 months ago. What was unusual was the explicitness of the union's challenge. By calling for a referendum on the government, the radicals of Solidarity played into the hands of the hard-liners of the Polish Communist party. The government had already staked out its position: in the event of demonstrations "organs of public order" would move "decisively" to block such protests. A midnight Saturday, General Jaruzelski carried out that threat, with consequences to the Polish nation that cannot yet be assessed. -By William E. Smith...