Word: szczecin
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...shavers, which are almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...
Gierek last week weathered a different but no less important test with high marks. With unrest continuing among the workers whose December rioting led to the leadership shakeup, Gierek took the unusual and daring step of meeting personally with the most militant protesters in Szczecin and Gdansk...
...biggest confrontation occurred in Szczecin, where workers in the giant Warski shipyards verged on rebellion. Angered by what they considered the new government's slow pace in answering their grievances, they staged slowdowns and drafted a list of 2,000 demands. Among them: pay increases, release of rioters still held in jail, and the removal of some Politburo members...
...Szczecin Gierek met the workers' committee in an extraordinary session that lasted from early evening until 2 a.m. the next day. Carefully Gierek called the rebels "rodacy" (countrymen) or "stare pierony" (old mates), rather than "towarzysze" (comrades), a word that Gomulka used in addressing nonparty members as well as Communists-an offense to many of the former...
High Toll. At week's end both Szczecin and Gdansk appeared quiet. But the bitterness goes very deep, for reasons that are becoming increasingly clear. Eyewitness accounts by Polish visitors in Europe and elsewhere, unverified but similar, indicate that December's death toll, officially placed at under 100, might have been as high...