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Veterans of the Pope's 17 previous foreign pilgrimages rated this one among the toughest-and costliest. Reporters were expected to pay on arrival, in foreign exchange, for all services that they would need from the Polish agency Interpress. Among the fees: $70 just to get into a room with telephones and telex transmission machines, with further costs for actually using the facilities; up to $150 a night for double hotel rooms or, when they were full, $45 a night for space in a youth hostel; $230 a day for a Ford Granada car and driver...
...could Walesa complain about his own exposure. He held a press conference at the Warsaw office of Interpress, the government news agency. He drew laughter and applause as he deftly fielded questions from some 200 Polish and foreign journalists. In response to one combative Soviet reporter, Walesa snapped, "We are cleaning our own house. We are not endangering anyone. The whole world understands. So you understand this: we are making small changes and perhaps others should follow our example...
...just four weeks after replacing his disgraced predecessor, Maciej Szczepanski, still under investigation for embezzlement. Barecki's apparent sin: years of loyal service to discredited ex-Party Boss Edward Gierek. Further changes were expected. Warsaw's new leader, Stanislaw Kania, continued to shape his own administration. Said Interpress Director Miroslaw Wojciechowski: "The situation is new. It demands new faces, new attitudes. It is a question of democracy within the party...
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