Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to reach his audience, Spielberg had to focus on some of the positive aspects of the Holocaust, namely an exciting story of heroism. But Spielberg does not fabricate anything, and he does not omit anything either. The movie graphically displays mass shootings, the liquidation of a Polish ghetto and the gas chambers at Auschwitz...
...cinemas he visits with Stella. Details, like the outrageous flares, pendants and sheepskin jackets she wears, are convincingly retro. The only contextual problem is the accents. Ironically, the only French-sounding actor in the mainly American and British cast, Polanski, plays the only non-French character (Trokovsky is Polish).One is tempted to wonder why, in this case, the film is set in Paris at all. But (silly me) we ought to be used to unanswered and unanswerable questions...
Russia needs to be told that it does not have a veto over NATO membership. That only an imperial Russia would take offense at East Europeans finding shelter in NATO -- the Polish army, after all, is no threat to Moscow. And that if Russia insists on military pressure on its neighbors, it will pay a high price, economic and diplomatic, in relations with America...
...Pact member or non-NATO West European state to join in limited military cooperation, including training and exercises, with NATO's 16 members. In Warsaw last week General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said NATO will be ready for joint military exercises with Polish forces as early as this year. But while strengthening links, the Partnership will fall far short of full membership in the Western alliance. That status carries a sensitive and binding security guarantee -- that an attack on one is an attack on all. Central Europeans, especially the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians...
...their part, the Central Europeans' primary motivation for NATO membership has little to do with the possibility of Russian troops swarming to reannex them. "It's not to defend against a Russian attack," explains former Polish Defense Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz. "We see that as a virtual impossibility. The key reason we want to be in NATO is to secure our own democracies. We need to keep down in our country the very same kind of nationalists Yeltsin's contending with, the same kind that have destroyed Yugoslavia." It is this point, repeated by more than a dozen Cabinet-level officials...