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Poland's Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek arrives in Washington this week for an eight-day state visit, bringing with him a reputation as one of the East bloc's shrewdest leaders. Since 1970, when dock workers' strikes over high food prices brought him to the head of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party, Gierek has overseen booming economic development and the evolution of the Warsaw Pact countries' most politically permissive society. Relying heavily on foreign credits (and risking what he hopes will be temporary trade deficits), Gierek has purchased huge amounts of Western technology...
...Gierek has shown great flexibility in ideology and politics. Poland, in fact, since the Stalinist days when it was a dispirited Soviet satellite, has turned into a rather un typical socialist state. Private farm ownership is tolerated, ordinary citizens are comparatively free to travel abroad, and churches are packed on Sundays - all made accept able to the Soviet Union by internal stability and a close adherence to Moscow in foreign policy...
Unlike his predecessors, Gierek has tried to avoid an open battle with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, to which more than 90% of all Poles be long. Western books and periodicals are readily available on Warsaw's news stands, while even such capitalist cultural phenomena as the Rolling Stones and avant-garde theater groups have been invited to Poland, where they drew capacity crowds...
President Giovanni Leone of Italy will make a state visit to Washington on Sept. 25, and Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek of Poland will visit for two days in early October. This week the U.S. and East Germany are due to establish diplomatic relations...
...after World War II. The Soviets decided that Poland, with its skilled labor force and largely ice-free ports, should build the bloc's merchant ships; since the late 1940s, the U.S.S.R. has invested millions of rubles in developing Polish yards. The regime of Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek has decided to intensify that development. Gierek knows all too well that the bloody wage-price riots of 1970 that toppled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, began with strikes in the Baltic docks and shipyards and is determined to keep the workers there prosperous. A major investment in the five-year...