Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHARE the majority's dismay at recent curtailments of civil liberties in Poland. I, too, deplore the attempt to bust the free trade union Solidarity and support international talks on the Polish crisis. But I cannot support the majority's call for economic sanctions against the Soviet Union. Any punitive action directed toward the Soviet Union will not improve the situation in Poland, nor will it bring about hoped-for changes in Soviet policies around the world. Soviet oppression, like that of the U.S., cannot be stopped by an embargo or a trade cutback...
...fact, imposing economic sanctions on the Soviet Union will likely backfire, hurting the United States at least as much as the Soviet Union. The majority of Crimson editors may be sure of Soviet involvement in the Polish crisis, but members of other countries may not be so convinced. There remains little hard evidence thus far of direct Soviet intervention. Nonaligned nations might well question U.S. sanctions based on flimsy evidence. Should the United States launch what could be viewed as an unfounded attack on the Soviet Union, the U.S. status abroad would suffer greatly...
Although reports from many Polish plants and one northern port indicated that work was proceeding normally yesterday, Solidarity sources who escaped arrest reported some scattered strikes...
...another government official, this one in the State Department, said last night he had "seen nothing" to indicate that resistance was spreading, and outside analysts said it was too soon to tell whether Polish resistance was likely to escalate quickly or simmer slowly under a government threat of immediate punishment...
...many, the weekend news of the imposition of martial law in Poland suggested an increased possibility of bloody, perhaps apocalyptic strife. For the men at 747 Cambridge St.--the home of the Polish American Citizens Association--the word from Warsaw, though painful, was not shocking...