Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hampered by sketchy information because of a near-total communications blackout, the analysts cited three key unknowns that should emerge: the scope and harshness of the crackdown on the ten-million member union; the reaction of the Catholic church and the Polish masses; and the extent, if any, of Soviet involvement in triggering the Warsaw government's move...
Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, expressed surprise that the Polish government chose to move now but said he had expected such a move "sooner or later...
Calling the Soviets "very smart" for not intervening directly and allowing "the Poles to do it themselves," Goldman said Moscow would back up the Polish government militarily only if it could not control the situation alone...
...former Polish military leader who is now a vocal anti-Communist, Chechinski added: "The Soviets will wait until that day when there will be a civil war or chaos in the country. Until then Jaruzelski and his generals will want to do their own dirty work...
...government officials said, the action appeared to be a "purely Polish" move, although clearly one that met approval from the Soviets. If Soviet involvement were deteccted by the U.S., the Reagan administration has said, it would have a chilling effect on East-West relations and possibly endanger the bilateral nuclear arms talks begun this month in Geneva...