Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition movement is shunning party-controlled unions and institutions in favor of its own "parallel" programs, which bring it into direct contact with the population. The most successful of these has been a series of lectures on subjects such as Polish history and culture that are being conducted in churches throughout the country. Among the key targets: the young, some of whom were in grade school when Solidarity was founded; and peasants, who make up 43% of the population. Largely conservative by nature, Polish farmers can, according to the opposition, nonetheless be moved by arguments showing that state mismanagement...
Only a few days earlier, Kirkpatrick's boss had given Moscow a good example of what she meant. Addressing a White House lunch for Polish-American leaders, the President said that the U.S. could not passively accept the "permanent subjugation of the people of Eastern Europe." Reagan cited the 1945 Yalta Conference, at which Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin discussed the fate of postwar Central Europe. Said Reagan: "[The U.S.] rejects any interpretation of the Yalta agreement that suggests American consent for the division of Europe into spheres of influence." Secretary of State George Shultz carried the same message...
...deadlock is broken, every utterance by Moscow and Washington will be freighted with significance. The Reagan bombing quip, repeated and amplified by the East bloc's controlled press, has poisoned the already contentious atmosphere. "Nobody should ever joke like that, even in his thoughts or dreams," said a Polish retiree. Said a Moscow student: "If it's true, it means Reagan hates all of us, not just our politicians." An elderly Soviet housewife angrily noted that "such words could only come from a person who has never lived through an air raid." But a Hungarian electrician recently discharged...
...favorites. "He falls in and out of love with people," says one friend. Deaver professes surprise that no one challenges his judgments at the big scheduling meetings he conducts. But no one wants to cross him. A graduate of San Jose State, he is envious of the Ivy League polish of types like Chief of Staff James Baker, whose skills he admires enormously. He is captivated by the trappings of power, the limousines and helicopters. Like his boss, he does not put in a crushing day. He takes time for regular exercise and has a cultivated taste for fine food...
Cherbrikov: Well, if we can't neutralize Womack, then I suggest much more drastic action. We must get that guy, that Polish history teacher...what is his name, oh yes, Pipes, back to Washington as soon as possible. That is our only hope. Otherwise the Revolution is lost in Cambridge. I'll get my boys on it right away...