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...MICHEL PONIATOWSKI, 52, Minister of State and Minister of Interior. "Ponia," as he is known everywhere, is Giscard's closest friend and crony in or out of the government. A patrician with royal Polish ancestry-one of his forebears was a marshal in Napoleon's army-Ponia-towski has known Giscard since student days, and he is distantly related to Giscard's wife. He helped Giscard set up his Independent Republican Party in 1966. Well before Pompidou's death, Poniatowski had worked quietly to line up the centrist parties' support that proved so crucial...
Married. Prince Edmond Poniatowski, 26, great-great-great-grandnephew of Stanislas August Poniatowski, last King of Poland (1764-95); and Anne Darwin Goodrich, 27, granddaughter of James Putnam Goodrich, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Indiana; in Rhinebeck...
...made-in-Russia national hero. "We receive the news of his appointment with great emotion, that a child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first fighting steps and with whom he shared a prison cell...
...Warsaw has a deathly stillness. In the whole panorama from Poniatowski Bridge to Kierbedz Bridge (both wrecked) there was not a single sign of human life. The buildings are not all flattened-some walls stand, but they are shells. The Prudential Insurance skyscraper (twelve stories) had lost its tower and one could look right through holes from one side of the building to the other. Only one church could be seen standing: the Wizytek on Cracow Street. There was not a trace of St. Alexander Church in the Square of the Three Crosses, or of the famous Holy Cross Church...
Agriculture: Juliusz Poniatowski...