Word: wojciech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit was hastily planned and largely unwanted. There were no flashy motorcades, no wreath layings and no banquets. Yet from the moment that Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski shook hands with French President Francois Mitterrand at Paris' Elysee Palace last week, he had achieved what he sought: the stamp of international respectability from a major West European leader. Mitterrand thus became the first Western head of state to receive Jaruzelski since the Polish leader crushed the independent trade union movement, Solidarity, and imposed martial law on the country four years ago this week...
...Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, 62, the real issue in Poland's first national elections since 1980 was not who would win but how many people would vote. The Communist regime wanted a heavy turnout in order to demonstrate that nearly four years after the imposition of martial law Poland had overcome its divisions and was looking toward the future. Yet when the votes were counted last week, the extent of participation--and the significance of the entire exercise--remained very much in dispute...
With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...
...Poland, too, there appears to be a desire to improve relations between church and state. Last month Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski met with Jozef Cardinal Glemp for the first time in 17 months, and Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski paid a call on the Pope, the first by a Polish Cabinet member to the Holy See in 3 1/2 years...
...labeled humanitarian relief. The biggest factor in changing congressional minds was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's tete-a-tete in Moscow on April 29 with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Ortega continued his 13-day trip through the East bloc last week, meeting, among others, Polish Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski...