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Gierek is unique among Communist leaders: he lived for many years in the West, and he comes from a genuinely proletarian background. The son of a mine worker who died when Gierek was four, he worked in French and Belgian coal mines from the age of 13 until his early 30s. He returned to Poland after World War II, where he quickly became active in the party. In 1957 he was named first secretary of the party in Silesia, where he gained a reputation for protecting the interests of miners and other industrial laborers. When worker unrest threatened to wreck...
Griggs quickly learned, however, that many of the old frustrations of news gathering had persisted. "The telephone system remains a shambles, punctuality is still nonexistent, and appointments are seldom kept. The old Belgian bureaucracy has been embroidered upon and enhanced, and the matabish, or bribe, is still in full flower...
...March, Kinshasa has been agog. Though initial predictions that 30,000 foreign visitors would descend on the ill-equipped capital have proved far too optimistic, fight preparations are still elaborate. Thousands of precooked frozen meals have been flown in. As le super combat approaches in the former Belgian Congo, the weed-infested median along Kinshasa's main boulevard has suddenly blossomed with flowers; new street lights have been installed and virtually every building in town has been scrubbed or painted...
Last week the Energy Coordinating Group, whose members include the U.S., Canada, Japan and nine Western European oil-importing nations, announced a major stride toward a unified, help-thy-friend energy policy. Meeting in Brussels under the chairmanship of Belgian Diplomat Vicomte Etienne Davignon, 41, a leading Common Market policymaker, the ECG accepted in principle a U.S.-sponsored proposal for sharing and conserving oil supplies during future energy emergencies...
...other Harvard boat to make the finals, the Crimson varsity lightweight crew, went down to defeat by a narrow three-quarters length at the hands of a combined English-Belgian eight rowing out of the Antwerp Roeivereniging. Antwerp's time...