Word: tadeusz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, John Paul has not hesitated to involve himself in Polish politics, albeit surreptitiously. His friend Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Solidarity intellectual who was Poland's first postcommunist Prime Minister, this month told TIME something that church officials in the past frequently denied. After the communist regime imposed martial law in 1981, the Pope wrote letters of counsel to Solidarity activists interned by the communists; priests and bishops served as couriers because they were not subject to body searches. Said Mazowiecki: "Their robes carried more mail than many workers in our postal service...
Popular discontent is running deep, as evidenced by a wave of strikes. When respondents were asked in a recent survey which of six leaders governed Poland best, "none of the above" came in first with 28%, followed by "no answer" with 18%. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first noncommunist Prime Minister, was the leading human at 14%; Lech Walesa, the current President and long considered the dominant figure in Polish politics, drew only 8%, coming in sixth behind Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last communist leader. Many fear that a succession of weak, short-lived governments pursuing inconsistent economic policies could open...
...there's one that was more important than others, I would say it was a book called This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski. Again, I've read so many of these survivor's accounts that they melt a little bit in my head, unfortunately...
...Poland, privatization was a key ingredient of the shock plan that took effect last year when then Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government lifted price controls, cut off state subsidies and began to reform the banking and monetary systems. The government late last year began selling shares in five of the most successful companies: Exbud, a construction firm with 1989 sales of nearly $15 million, and four smaller profitable enterprises, including a cable manufacturer and a glass mill. Foreign investors will be prohibited from purchasing more than 10% of the shares, though they could ! petition the authorities for more...
...Absolutely. I have thought and said so since the first moment. There is a saying by Tadeusz Kosciuszko ((the 18th century Polish military hero)) that one sometimes has to lose a lot in order to save everything...