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Unlike his predecessors, Gierek has tried to avoid an open battle with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, to which more than 90% of all Poles be long. Western books and periodicals are readily available on Warsaw's news stands, while even such capitalist cultural phenomena as the...
ON POLAND'S FUTURE: One should perceive Poland's present and future in the context of efforts we have made in the past 30 years. This effort was tremendous. More than 6 million Poles were killed in World War II; 40% of our property lay in ruins. Also...
ON CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS: One can be a good Catholic, like most Poles, and be an active participant in the construction of a socialist society at the same time-as most Poles are. We have never considered the church a challenge to the Polish Communist Party or our system, and...
Packing more mass than all of the other planets combined, the whirling giant bulges at the middle like the earth, only far more so. Pioneer found that Jupiter's equatorial diameter (88,298 miles) is nearly 6,000 miles greater than the spread between its poles. The data returned...
So goes the theory. The reality is somewhat different. Basic services such as housing, medical care and mass transit in the Communist countries are generally cheap, but prices for many items from cars to quality foods have long been set so high that they remain beyond the reach of most...