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...repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church-state detente was immediately apparent: figurehead President Henryk Jablonski came to the airport to welcome John Paul, and the Pope later conferred for 30 minutes with Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek...
...sentiment has resulted in perhaps the strongest dissident movement currently in Eastern Europe. The Workers Defence Committee (WDC) set up in 1976 to raise aid for the victimised strikers of engineering works at Ursus and Radom has become an umbrella group for all opposition to the regime of Edward Gierek. The ability to forge a genuine alliance of interest among workers, students and intellectuals by common protest at a tangible grievance (in this case government plans for sudden massive food price rises in June 1976) has had a continuing political spin-off. 40,000 letters of protest...
First stop was Poland, which provided Carter with a Communist forum for reaffirming his stand on human rights. Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek, a former coal miner, warmly greeted the President at a remote area of Okecie Airport, but then slyly made a pre-emptive strike on his guest's issue. Said Gierek: "To the people of Poland, which has so dreadfully experienced the atrocities of war, security is the supreme value; while life and peace are the fundamental rights...
...morning, the interpreter used a word meaning that he had abandoned the U.S. forever. Carter's praise of the Poles' much revered Constitution of May 3,1791, came across as if he were holding it up to ridicule. Seymour even substituted a few Russian words for Polish. Gierek and the welcoming party of about 300 Polish officials were alternately annoyed and amused; Seymour was demoted to translating only Polish into English for the rest of the visit...
Joined by Brzezinski and Vance, Carter lunched with Gierek and other high-ranking Poles at the Sejm (parliament) building. For three hours and 45 minutes, they discussed stalled negotiations on troop reductions by NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, Poland's complaints that U.S. antidumping regulations have unfairly hurt its exports and Carter's plea that more Poles be allowed to join their families in the U.S. Afterward Carter announced that the U.S. will provide Poland with $200 million in credits to buy food and feed grains-in addition to an earlier $300 million deal-to help make...