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...military junta resigned under pressure last July. In recent weeks TIME has run interviews with a host of world figures, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek...
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...proposed a cautious 31-point remedy for the nation's economic ills that included a controversial 5% tax surcharge on middle and upper incomes (see THE ECONOMY). He underscored his desire for detente by meeting for the first time with a Communist leader, Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek. He took an unusual midnight ride with several Cabinet members to Andrews Air Force Base to demonstrate wholehearted support of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by seeing him off on his latest trip to the Middle East (see THE WORLD). He lobbied scores of Congressmen on the eve of their campaign...
...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...
Last week Gierek met with TIME Correspondents William Rademaekers and Gisela Bolte in his office on the third floor of the labyrinthine Central Committee building in Warsaw. Nattily dressed in a steel blue suit, white shirt and matching tie, Gierek seemed relaxed and sure of himself as he discussed the problems of Poland and the world. His views...