Word: polishing
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Dishonesty ... astonishing." The angry words of the Polish government's chief spokesman, Jerzy Urban, last week were aimed at the U.S., not for what it had done but for what it had failed to do. What infuriated Urban was Washington's apparent initial tepid response to Warsaw's sweeping amnesty for 652 political prisoners. To Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime, the amnesty clearly lived up to Washington's conditions for lifting an array of painful economic sanctions imposed after Poland declared martial law in 1981. But the Reagan Administration seemed to Warsaw...
What Washington wanted, for one thing, was time to fashion a concerted NATO response that will please Warsaw while satisfying anti-Communist Polish Americans. A White House official confided that President Reagan's decision "will be guided by what's good for the Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well...
...punishment does not do the trick, then try a little tenderness. That seems to be the philosophy behind the Polish government's decision last week to free 652 of the country's political prisoners. Despite grumbling from Communist Party hardliners, the amnesty bill was passed by the parliament 365 to 4. Only those arrested for treason, spying and sabotage will not be released. Among the freed will be seven leaders of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union movement who have been in jail since December 1981, when martial law was declared. The regime of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...tried as a war criminal. In 1964, however, he became the highest-ranking Nazi officer to be tried in a West German court; he was sentenced to 15 years for being "continuously engaged and deeply entangled in guilt," notably for supplying the boxcars that shipped 300,000 Polish Jews to the gas ovens at Treblinka...
Thus began the much criticized parade of possible Veep candidates to North Oaks, Minn., for interviews with Mondale. Quite deliberately, a Black mayor, Los Angeles' Tom Bradley, was invited first. A woman, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, soon followed. She quickly impressed the Mondale aides with her warmth, polish and preparation. "Feinstein had her own specific ideas on what a Vice President could do," a Mondale adviser recalls. When Ferraro arrived to discuss the work of the party platform committee, which she heads, Mondale sized her up as a possibility too. Henry Cisneros, the youthful Hispanic-American Mayor...