Word: piotr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forget Piotr. Even so, Gierek was anxious to gain the party's mandate for his reformist leadership before the first anniversary of the riots. As Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other East bloc party leaders looked on in the ornate Palace of Culture and Science, whose facade was decorated with a seven-story portrait of Lenin, Gierek made a strong plea to Poles for cooperation. "Our supreme aim," he declared, "is the systematic improvement of living standards"-including at least one free Saturday per month for all vvorkers. He called too for a greater sense of unity...
...delegates, half of them industrial workers, frequently interrupted Gierek's 31-hour speech with applause. Later, when he and Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz mingled with delegates on the congress floor, the two men were so mobbed by admirers that Gierek nearly lost his footing. One woman delegate from Gdansk kissed Gierek on both cheeks and invited him to visit her factory. As other women swarmed toward him, Gierek pointed nervously at Jaroszewicz and said, "Piotr, Piotr," indicating that the Premier deserved a share of their attention...
...Central Committee that attempts to placate the shortage-plagued Poles by shifting emphasis from heavy industry to consumer goods. It also places great stress on increased farm output and a higher rate of housing construction (the present waiting time for apartments is six years). "The main theme," said Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz, "is man and his needs." >Ended a 25-year dispute between the party and the Catholic Church-to which 95% of Poland's 32.5 million people have at least nominal allegiance -by granting the Polish church full title to 4,700 chapels and churches and 2,200 parish...
Soviet Help. Gierek's maneuver seemed to defuse the dangerous situation. But then the Lodz workers struck, demanding a 16% wage increase and better working conditions. Gierek sent Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz and three other Politburo members to reason with the workers. After several sessions, including one that lasted until 4 a.m., the officials returned to Warsaw with no settlement in sight...
...with the people, he frequently visits factories and speaks on TV and radio. He has fired the country's trade union boss and the Szczecin party chief. Well aware that 95% of his countrymen are at least nominal Roman Catholics, he is openly courting the church; his Premier, Piotr Jaroszewicz, is expected to confer with Stefan Cardinal Wyszinski, the primate of Poland, in the near future-the first such meeting in almost a decade...