Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...
...Polish freighter Busko Zdroj foundered in a gale 100 miles off the Danish coast with the loss of 24 of its 25-man crew. Following a lengthy inquiry, a maritime court in Gdynia has found that the loss of the Busko Zdroj was the result of official bungling...
Testimony revealed that the vessel, one of twelve designed in Poland but built in Rumania in the early '70s, was virtually doomed from the day its keel was laid. When the ships' designer saw the haphazard way in which they were being constructed, he complained to Polish authorities and resigned after his plea was ignored. Judge Andrzej Przybielski accused the Register of Shipping of "glaring negligence" in allowing the vessel to be built with faulty and substandard steel. He also cited an inoperative emergency radio, faulty signal flares and the crew's lack of familiarity with other safety equipment...
Apple executives are nonetheless confident that they can polish their corporate performance. Sales edged up in recent months, and the company plans a hefty advertising campaign during the remainder of the year. The Apple II series will receive special attention, along with a host of new products. Among them: a modem that is some 30% cheaper than other phone-line hookups now on the market, and a new printer...
...where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying out for montage." In the end there is nothing to cheer for; avaricious superpowers widen the cold war gulf. Lourie, a professional translator from Russian and Polish into English, knows his turf well, and his novel works as polemic and page turner. It chills in any language...