Word: silesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prior to the agreement, applications for an exit visa were usually refused or simply ignored. Konrad K., 41, a worker in a Silesian concrete factory, applied twelve times in seven years. Three weeks ago, a plainclothesman knocked on his door and informed him that he must leave Poland by the end of the month. To help pay for his Polish exit visa (about $200 for persons over 16), he sold his antique Polish car for $100. "Some Poles were angry with us and shouted that we should have gotten out earlier," said Heinz H., 60, a telegraph operator...
...from the week of bloody riots that tumbled Wladyslaw Gomulka from power after 14 years as First Secretary of his nation's Communist Party. From comrades on all levels, fraternal messages of support poured into Warsaw for his successor: Edward Gierek, 57, the tall, burly boss of the Silesian mining area. Russia's Leonid Brezhnev hailed his new opposite number in Poland as "a sincere friend of the Soviet Union and a staunch international Communist." Germany's gruff old Walter Ulbricht, who has opposed recent Polish efforts at détente, proposed "close comradely ties." From...