Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have sparked only resentment and enmity. The most disastrous incident occurred at the most important affair so far, a White House reception in honor of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Scheduled to be there at 4 p.m., the President arrived 2 1/2 hours late. By that time, Polish President Lech Walesa, entertainer Mandy Patinkin, House Speaker Tom Foley and others had long run out of anything to say to one another and were squishing in the mud under a tent in a driving rain. Many of the older guests, Holocaust survivors, had left in disgust...
Well, it wasn't. Yes, the Germans considered the Poles an inferior race. They invaded, abused, violated and socially decapitated the Poles. But they did not issue a death sentence and track down for gassing every child of Polish descent. That treatment was reserved for the Jews...
That same afternoon, African National Congress president Nelson Mandela called for discipline and restraint, warning that further violence could derail negotiations aimed at democratic reforms and ultimately play into the hands of the murderer (a Polish immigrant has been accused of the killing). "I understand your anger," said Mandela, but "we want you to remember that as a government in waiting, you have the responsibility to behave orderly and with dignity...
...week, several old Vietnam hands, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said they were impressed with its apparent authenticity. Brzezinski went even further, publicly speculating that the Vietnamese were guilty of a massacre similar to the infamous execution of 4,500 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police in the Katyn Forest in 1940. Said Delores Apodaca Alfond, president of the National Alliance of Families, an organization that has long accused both Washington and Hanoi of duplicity on the POW-MIA issue: "Finally, we've found the smoking gun. It all seems...
Police said they arrested Januzu Jakub Wallus, a 40-year-old Polish-born South African, reportedly traced through the red car that had sped away after Hani's murder. Wallus was in possession of two guns. An initial assertion by Deputy Law and Order Minister Gert Myburgh that the killing looked like an individual act rather than a conspiracy was rejected by A.N.C. leaders, who demanded that they, as well as international observers, be permitted to participate in the investigation...