Word: gierek
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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More than Willing. The two men standing in the wings who have most to gain by a weakening of Gomulka's position are Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar and Silesian Party Boss Edward Gierek (TIME, March 29). As head of an organization of onetime underground fighters known as the Partisans, Moczar, 54, intensely dislikes the Jews in government because many of them returned to Poland with Russian troops and held posts during Stalin's time. He is anxious to see them dismissed, even more anxious to see them replaced with his own men. Gierek, who was the first national...