Word: gomulka
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...Before long, they decided to emphasize their anger by marching from the yards to Communist Party headquarters two miles away. Thus began a week of rioting and death that surpassed anything Eastern Europe has experienced in years and shook to its foundations the Communist regime of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka...
Brandt was in Warsaw to establish normal diplomatic relations between West Germany and Poland for the first time since the end of the war. In the city's Radziwill Palace, with Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka beaming in the background, Brandt and Polish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a former Auschwitz inmate, signed leather-bound copies of an agreement that cedes to Poland 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers. In return, some 100,000 ethnic Germans who have lived in the Oder-Neisse region since the end of World War II will...
...followed the signing, as members of the delegation that accompanied Brandt sought out their Polish counterparts. Student leaders met, Novelist Gunter Grass mingled with a group of Polish writers, and Berthold Beitz, representing the giant Krupp enterprises, conferred with leaders of the Polish Planning Commission. Nevertheless, neither Brandt nor Gomulka had any illusion that all the hatreds that have grown up between Germans and Poles over the course of 1,000 tormented years could be dispelled quickly...
...staying away from Budapest, Ulbricht also displayed his displeasure toward 1) Kádár for the slight liberalism Hungary is enjoying, 2) Poland for concluding a treaty with West Germany, 3) Polish Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka for inviting West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Warsaw to sign the treaty, and 4) the Russians for sidestepping the issue of diplomatic recognition for East Germany...
...hopeful. Some even believe that the plan could have important political consequences. "Certainly you cannot have economic reforms without some political reforms," says Mieczyslaw Rakowski, 44, editor in chief of the authoritative weekly Polityka. Rakowski, a candidate member of the Central Committee and a protégé of Gomulka, believes that Poland is ready to enter into a stage of "limited democracy." He explains: "By limited democracy I mean more room for discussion within the Communist Party, perhaps even two Communist parties, each presenting its men for election. But I do not mean the development of a party system...