Word: gierek
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...Edward Gierek is allowing a revival of home-grown striptease; the art has for years been practiced almost exclusively by imported dancers in bars catering to Western tourists. In a startling departure, the state entertainment agency recently placed an ad in the big party daily inviting attractive young Polish women of 22 or under to report to Warsaw's Palace of Culture to try out for jobs as strippers...
...months since Poland's pragmatic Party Boss Edward Gierek took power, the nation's writers and intellectuals-reflecting the view of Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely...
Party's Watchdogs. Last week, as delegates of the 1,130-member Polish Writers' Union gathered in Lodz, Poland's second largest city, they were clearly not inclined to endanger those gains. Another congress in 1968 had vigorously protested the cultural repression of Gierek's predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, and brought down the wrath of the regime. Jewish writers were particular targets; Antoni Slonim-ski, a patriarch of contemporary Polish literature, was denounced by Gomulka as "not a proper Pole...
...congress also elected a new Politburo that further strengthened Gierek's position. Out went three members who had been appointed to the Politburo by Gomulka, notably Jozef Cyrankiewicz, the President of Poland, who is now expected to lose that post too, and Mieczyslaw Moczar, the hard-lining former secret police chief, who was Gierek's possible rival. Gierek, who has sacked some 10,000 middle and lower echelon bureaucrats, hinted that there might be further firings: "For bad work, and even more so for bad will, we must dismiss people from their positions...
...this week's anniversary of the revolts drew near, some delegates to the congress from Gdansk, scene of the worst rioting, reported variously that the mood of the city was "uncertain" or "volatile." Gierek hopes that his record to date will persuade Poles to be patient, but he and his colleagues are mindful that the workers, having overturned one government with surprising swiftness, may not be willing to wait very long...