Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday, exactly six hours after the crackdown began, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish party chief and Premier, made a radio address to the country. He declared a state of martial law and announced that henceforth the country would be ruled by a "military council for national salvation." Speaking in a tired voice, he said, "Our country is at the verge of an abyss. The state structure has ceased operating." Solidarity's leaders, he charged, "threaten us with the use of force. They no longer obey the law. Everyone is on strike. They call for confrontation with the Reds...
...move against Solidarity caused shock and dismay throughout the West. In Washington, President Reagan was kept closely informed of the Polish situation throughout the weekend. In Brussels, Secretary of State Alexander Haig hastily put off a planned trip to Israel. He said the U.S. and its European partners were "surprised" by the ominous developments in Poland. "We're watching very carefully," he said. "And we are consulting with our concerned allies here on the Continent." In a direct warning to the Soviets, Haig said, "It would be hard to call the West guilty of interference. And we have increasingly...
...striving hard to avoid such an eventuality. Clearly speaking to both Poland and the Soviets at once, Jaruzelski said: "Citizens, just as there is no turning back from socialism, so there is no turning back to the erroneous methods and practices of pre-1980." But then he said: "The Polish-Soviet alliance is and will remain the cornerstone of the Polish raison d'état." Within hours of the imposition of martial law, Radio Moscow carried an approving bulletin on the government's action. Said a government official in Moscow: "The Soviet troops in Poland are in their...
...most poignant reaction came from Pope John Paul II. Giving his Sunday blessing before a crowd of 30,000 in St. Peter's Square, he declared: "Polish blood must no longer be spilled. Everything must be done to build peace in the future of the homeland...
Although the Soviet Union did not appear to be directly behind the Polish government's actions, Soviet news agencies praised the Polish government's actions. But yesterday the British Broadcasting Corporation's Warsaw correspondent reported that the Soviet commander-in-chief of Warsaw Pact forces told Poland's leaders that unless they restored order, the Soviets would...