Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polish frontiers and the regime installed in Warsaw by the Soviet Politburo was assuming an increasingly threatening posture toward Solidarity. This moment, pregnant with the possibility of a Soviet invasion of Poland, was not one to choose to resume selling the Soviets foodstuffs that we had denied to them because they had invaded Afghanistan...
...hope of progress on every question involving our countries depended on Soviet behavior toward Poland. When Foreign Minister Gromyko and I met in New York City on Sept. 23, 1981-my first encounter with him as Secretary of State-I seized the occasion to tell him that the Polish situation was a matter of great concern to the U.S. He made no reply...
...approached its end, a deceptive calm settled over the question. Then, during a visit to Brussels, at 3 a.m. on Dec. 13, I received the news that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, had declared a "military government of national salvation," suspended the operations of Solidarity, closed the borders, broken communications with the outside world and arrested a large number of citizens. We recognized at once that, for the time being at least, martial law, rather than something worse, had been imposed upon Poland. We had known for many months what we would do in case of direct Soviet intervention...
What happens, I asked, if the President makes such a demand and Walesa remains in prison and the reforms do not occur? The President had already sent a strongly worded letter to Brezhnev over the hot line. Jeane Kirkpatrick, not unnaturally, wished to take the Polish question into the United Nations. I urged the President not to render Western action subject to a Soviet veto in the Security Council, and he accepted my advice. Sanctions against the Soviet Union and the Jaruzelski government, even a total embargo by the West, were discussed. "If Defense has its way," I told...
...suggested that the President articulate first principles: nothing for the Polish government, a cutoff of Polish imports into the U.S., a policy of providing food for the Polish people if we were guaranteed that it would reach them. The Defense Department and most of the President's staff, out of genuine outrage but also because of a reflexive belief in the power of the public relations gesture, urged sanctions. To the advocates of this policy, the trans-Siberian pipeline-designed to carry up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas 3,300 miles from Siberia...