Word: polisher
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...when the money was labeled humanitarian relief. The biggest factor in changing congressional minds was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's tete-a-tete in Moscow on April 29 with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Ortega continued his 13-day trip through the East bloc last week, meeting, among others, Polish Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
First Poland expelled two U.S. diplomats it charged had taken part in May Day demonstrations outside Cracow. Then the State Department struck back by sending four Polish diplomats packing. Last week the Polish government retaliated by cutting off the "Hamburger Specials," flights from Frankfurt that every two months brought in comforts for the U.S. embassy staff, from toothpaste to grade-A ground sirloin, as well as mail and packages from home. The shipments were allowed into Poland without the usual rigorous customs inspection...
...special flights date back to 1957, when U.S.-Polish relations were more amicable. But, said the Polish government announcement last week, "continuation of this particular privilege would be difficult in view of the discriminatory treatment our country receives daily from the U.S. & Administration." The U.S. is powerless to reciprocate beause Polish diplomats in Washington only have to go to their local A&P to do their food shopping. Said U.S. Embassy Spokesman Paul Smith: "We will manage to get by." The inconvenience will not last long: the embassy is arranging to have rations trucked in from West Germany...
...Polish flag last week became a heartbreaking symbol of the profound differences dividing the country. In the port city of Gdansk a few hundred people joined the official May Day parade and unfurled a long banner proclaiming SOLIDARITY IS FIGHTING. Suddenly flag-carrying onlookers, in reality plainclothes police, waded into the intruders, using the flagstaffs as clubs. They were quickly followed by ZOMO riot police and water cannons. Later in the day, other illegal demonstrations turned into full-blown street fights between young protesters and ZOMO; scores were injured...
...Solidarity supporters gathered outside the church of St. Stanislaw Kostka, where Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest murdered last year by security police, once preached and now lies buried. This time there was no violence. They marched for almost two hours until riot police blocked their progress. On Friday the Polish government expelled two American diplomats, William Harwood, a first secretary of the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, and David Hopper, the consul in Cracow. The diplomats, accused of participating in a protest outside Cracow, insisted they were merely observers. In retaliation, Washington expelled four Polish diplomats...