Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permission. More important, he softened as "ill-considered" an antiZionist campaign that had passed off most of the blame for the unrest on Jew ish intellectuals. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, promised exit visas to Jews who want to move to Israel and en dorsed the majority of Polish Jews as loyal builders of socialism. In cavalier disregard of deepening unrest among intellectuals, however, he blasted liberal Writers Union members, whose balking at censorship had first rallied students, and at liberal professors, whom he labeled "small-time politicians with science degrees." He also announced that more than 1,200 "rabble...
...Europe. In Prague, Party Boss Alexander Dubcek, chief architect of the reforms, consolidated his position and opened the way for further liberalization by forcing the resignation of deposed Party Chief Antonin Novotny, 63, as President of the country that he had ruled with an iron hand for 15 years. Polish students used the reforms in Czecho slovakia as a herald in their defiance of the government. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, an earlier liberalizer (TIME cover, March 18, 1966), read the handwriting on the wall and decided that Rumania should go farther along the reform road. Everyone should be free...
...chance that reforms will automatically come with them is dim. The last influential figure from a never strong liberal wing, Philosophy Professor Leszek Kolakowski, was booted from party membership two years ago. President Edward Ochab, tired and almost blind at 62, is expected to retire in time for the Polish party conference late next fall, and some observers think that Gomulka may lift himself upstairs to the presidency, allowing a younger man to undertake party chairmanship...
Domestic Issue. Of the three issues, Brandt's pronouncements on the Oder-Neisse attracted by far the most attention. By tirelessly maintaining that the former German lands east of the two rivers-40,177 sq. mi. in all-were only temporarily under Polish administration, Bonn hoped eventually to use its nonrecognition as a bargaining point if and when a peace conference is held to end World War II. But West Germany actually lost most of this leverage as Poland incorporated the former German lands into its own country and expelled the Germans there. Brandt obviously feels that the issue...
...season for both teams, as the Eastern League and Big Three titles depended on the outcome. Two weeks before the match Junta began to talk quietly to each team member about the importance of winning against Yale. The Bulldogs had breezed through their schedule and were patiently waiting to polish off their Cambridge rivals. Harvard had won for the last two years and the Elis were bent on revenge...