Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downtown like an intruder from another world. But it is a welcome one. The $65 million Warsaw Marriott, which is scheduled to open this week with a bash for 1,000 guests, will be the first major Western-operated hotel in Poland. Built in a joint venture with the Polish airline LOT and an Austrian construction company, the structure has 520 hotel rooms and office space for businesses. Amenities include a shopping mall, a swimming pool and satellite TV in every room...
...suite. Foreigners must pay for their rooms in dollars, which will provide some much needed hard currency for Poland's government. The hotel hopes to attract swarms of Western business travelers, many of them from the U.S. Says William Tiefel, president of Marriott Hotels and Resorts: "A great many Polish Americans gave us a nudge in the right direction...
Past prizes have been used to encourage human rights activists and support peace efforts. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa won in 1983; the 1987 prize went to President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica for his Central American peace plan; the United Nations' peacekeeping forces were given last year's award...
...when Sorella manages to arrange a showdown with her husband's savior. She tells all, of course. Her description of the crucial encounter, both poignant and hilarious, settles nothing except the certainty that Broadway Billy Rose will do anything to avoid receiving an expression of gratitude by Polish immigrant Harry Fonstein...
...course, appeals to moral decency have rarely carried much weight with the Soviet government. But an appeal to self-interest might. Never has Polish opposition to Soviet domination been so brazen as it is today. A Soviet apology for the Katyn massacre would be an important symbolic step towards the construction of a more cooperative and less autocratic Warsaw Pact...