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...Reflecting a wide range of dissident opinion, the samizdat publications are symptomatic of the mounting discontent that has made the country potentially the most unstable nation in Communist East Europe. Today there are at least twelve regularly published underground journals. Their criticism of the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek* goes well beyond economic problems. It includes sweeping demands for democracy and freedom from Soviet hegemony...
...Gierek, whose country is predominantly Roman Catholic, last week requested and was granted an audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican...
...enough. Warsaw's two main Western-built hotels, the Forum and the Victoria Inter-Continental, have long been refusing tourist bookings for the two weeks beginning Nov. 24, and a brand-new press club was to be specially opened for Carter's arrival. The government of Edward Gierek had high hopes that the visit would produce tangible benefits in trade and other economic exchanges. In Brazil, the change of plans added a layer of glare ice to an already chilly relationship. The Brazilians had hoped that Carter's visit would ease tensions-centering on nuclear proliferation...
...fewer than 104 countries were on hand in Moscow to help the Soviets celebrate their three score years in power. Present for the party, probably the biggest in Moscow's history, were such Communist all-stars as Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. In the Kremlin's starkly modern Palace of Congresses, President Leonid Brezhnev rose to keynote the festivities with a 90-minute report on the state of the Soviet Union and the world. As always, he had quite a lot to say-about the latest...
...Glos manifesto is bound to embarrass and anger the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek. Still, it seemed unlikely that the government would crack down on the signers so close to President Carter's scheduled visit to Warsaw in December. In Poland, such a move would only precipitate more protest...