Word: warsaw
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...women milled about the hall. Finally, when she got her chance to speak, she simply announced her name and then, to identify herself further, rattled off nervously the names of the three Nazi concentration camps she was sent to after the Gestapo arrested her in 1943 in Warsaw...
Scheduled 40 years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising-and a follow-up to the first world gathering of some 4,000 survivors and their children in Israel two years ago-the Washington meeting attracted some 12,000 American and Canadian survivors. Last week's meeting also marked the creation of a U.S. Holocaust memorial museum that will be financed by a $75 million fund-raising drive. The Government has donated two buildings near the Mall that will serve as the museum's center...
...look askance at the volume and substance of East-West trade. A focus for that critical view is the NATO alliance's Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, or COCOM, a body created in 1950 to monitor and restrict the flow of strategic Western industrial goods to the Warsaw Pact nations. It is virtually powerless today. Complains a senior Reagan Administration official: "COCOM is nothing but a junior Italian official and ten clerks...
...assured on all sides that a nuclear war is "unwinnable." Why do we pour billions into developing a nuclear deterrent to the Warsaw Pact, while neglecting the immediate problem, the woeful state of our front-line conventional deterrent? The implication is that U.S. strategic thinking is stuck on the antagonistic notion of carrying the ultimate big stick...
...such reason, they speculated, could be Pope John Paul II's scheduled mid-June visit to Warsaw. Some specialists have said Walesa may fear that a trip to the United States could disrupt the Pope's plans, possibly by creating such a volatile atmosphere in Poland that authorities there would cancel the pontiff's visit...