Word: gomulka
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...kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire, The Silent and the Honkers, that caricatured some Polish public figures, including Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. After listening to a tape recording of his play, a Polish court sentenced Szpotanski to three years in prison for harming state interests...
...community has become so oppressive that last week, meeting in the first extraordinary session of its 48-year history, some 350 members of the Polish Writers' Union voted to draw the line at the government's most recent crackdown. In a strongly worded resolution, they accused the Gomulka regime of throttling Poland's cultural life...
Aging & Suspicious. What makes Poland's intellectuals so angry is that it was in Poland, after the enlightened, anti-Stalinist regime of Gomulka took power in 1956, that the trend toward intellectual freedom in Eastern Europe really began. In the days following the popular uprising that installed Gomulka, Warsaw's stage bloomed with avant-garde theater-the existentialism of Sartre, the absurdism of Beckett and a home-grown brand of vicious gallows humor. Recently, however, while an aging and suspicious government tolerates less free discussion at home, the Poles have watched in frustration while non conformity flourishes among...
...worries, however, and no doubt also took to the rails to coordinate strategy for the conference of Communist chiefs scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...
...Kremlin express may have had yet another goal in its Polish stop: to head off the ousting of Gomulka that was rumored imminent. His most likely replacement is Edward Giereck, a Politburo member in his mid-50s who was once a miner and is now party boss of the big Katowice industrial region of Poland...