Word: polishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats since early April...
...Toes. With the resignation of President Edward Ochab, who is 61 and nearly blind, Gomulka had sufficient strength in the Polish Sejm (Parliament) to have the post filled by a trusted lieutenant, Defense Minister Marian Spychalski, 62. The political fortunes of Spychalski, an architect by training, have waned and gained for 25 years with those of Gomulka. An underground Communist leader during World War II, he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Stalinists after Gomulka was purged in 1948. Never brought to trial, Spychalski left prison a cripple without toes, was made Defense Minister after Gomulka gained power...
...larger numbers than usual of plainclothes policemen and other shadowy characters. The country's severest purge since the bloodless revolution of 1956, which had started off a few weeks earlier by concentrating on the Jews in government and universities, suddenly spread to engulf people in other walks of Polish life...
...Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka still exercises complete control of the party. Not only has Gomulka's plea for an end to the anti-Zionist campaign three weeks ago been ignored by the government, but mutterings of dissatisfaction with the stagnant Gomulka regime have begun to appear in the Polish press...
...more anxious to see them replaced with his own men. Gierek, who was the first national figure to condemn the "Zionists," is fond of the youth argument since, at 55, he is the youngest member of the twelve-man ruling Politburo-to which Moczar does not belong. If the Polish Parliament, which convenes this week, should decide to make a change in the top-echelon leadership, including that of ailing President Edward Ochab, both men would be more than willing to offer their services...