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Poland's Communist leader Edward Gierek could hardly forget that he had been swept into power in 1970 by a wave of riots against rising food prices. So, for more than five years, he kept prices frozen even while wages rose by 40%. Such an artificial situation could not last indefinitely, and Gierek suddenly announced in June that the prices of many staples would go up an average 60%. Once again the restive Poles started fighting back...
...Gierek quickly backed down and canceled the price increases. But that was only a temporary maneuver. In a show trial designed to brand the Radom protesters as vandals, six carefully chosen defendants-all had criminal records-were sentenced to four to ten years at hard labor on charges of looting and destruction of state property. At the same time nearly 700 ordinary Radom workers were hauled into summary trials held in secret. About 80% of them reportedly were given sentences of six months to five years at hard labor. Most of the others were dismissed from their jobs, which...
...Olympic gold medal in 1968 and three-time world fencing champion in saber, the handsome 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Polish army was the undisputed sports hero of Poland. So great was the country's pride in Pawlowski's prowess that Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek is said to have brought the fencer with him to an informal meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...
...least twice with Brezhnev, for instance, about the SALT II negotiations and the currently stalled Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks in Vienna. Chancellor Schmidt has let it be known that he hopes to see every Eastern European party leader, starting with Brezhnev, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. Giscard and Wilson can be expected to do the same, if only to avoid being outpointed by Schmidt. Leaders of economically hard-pressed East-bloc nations will huddle with any Western leader who can promise them credits on technology...
Poland's Communist Party chief, Edward Gierek, told your correspondents at least three flagrant lies...