Word: stanislawa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady stream of workers flowed through the kitchen to sign up for membership. In the back bedroom, beneath a photograph of Pope John Paul II, workers sat at a round table discussing union organization with intellectuals and lawyers who had volunteered to advise them. The commotion did not bother Stanislawa Runowska, 68, a round-faced woman who lives in the flat with her daughter and three other relatives. "It is all for the good of the Polish nation," she explained with a smile. "We are patriots...
Gierek, 67, is a man of strong moods and quick temper. He likes his vodka, an holds it well. He still speaks French fluently, and rarely misses an edition of the Paris daily Le Monde. A natty dresser, Gierek insists that his white who be washed by his wife Stanislawa. "She is the only one who knows how to make them look good yet soft," Gierek answered when relatives do that the wife of Poland's leader should not have to do laundry. And for all of Gierek's devotion to Communism, his aged mother has remained...
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