Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, and no more than four are considered vulnerable. Cranston's is one of them. For the first time, the 71-year-old Senator will not be facing a far-right opponent; Zschau, 46, portrays himself as a fiscal conservative but social moderate. The Congressman's political polish, his relative youth and particularly his powerful fund-raising abilities (he expects to spend another $10 million) will be vital assets against a still popular incumbent who hopes to raise more than $8 million for the November contest...
...movement, had been arrested after eluding police for more than four years. Only days later, Poles received a second jolt. The Washington Post reported that the Reagan Administration not only knew in advance about the Warsaw regime's plans to impose martial law in December 1981, but according to Polish Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, failed to do everything in its power to prevent the imposition. Solidarity's dwindling band of sympathizers warily concluded last week that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski was hell-bent on a new campaign to intimidate and demoralize the opposition before the Tenth Polish Communist...
According to the Post article, the Reagan Administration had been informed of Jaruzelski's plans for a military crackdown fully a month before martial law was imposed. The Administration's alleged source was Colonel Wladyslaw Kuklinski, a senior Polish staff officer who was on the payroll of the CIA. Urban told the Post that the U.S. could have prevented the subsequent arrests and internments by warning Solidarity of the imminent government action. He also charged that by remaining silent, the U.S. demonstrated that it had no interest in averting a "bloody conflict" in Poland. Urban demanded that the Post confront...
...reports" on the pre-martial-law climate from several sources but had not known definitely whether, or when, the crackdown would take place. Further, one intelligence source said, any action would have jeopardized Kuklinski's life, impaired future intelligence-gathering capabilities in Poland and had no effect on the Polish government's chosen course of action. The State Department did not deny that Kuklinski had been a U.S. agent. He reportedly was whisked out of Poland by the CIA just before martial law was imposed. Kuklinski is now said to be living in the U.S. with his family under...
...model, played by Brigitte Nielsen (Mrs. Stallone in private life), who is the only witness to one of their crimes. Assigned to protect her, Cobra reluctantly (indeed, spiritlessly) falls in love with her. But this is presented as a distraction from his main line of business, which is to polish his arsenal in preparation for the climax in which he wipes out the whole mob of "sickos" in a single confrontation...