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...Szczecin, at least 77 died and scores were hurt. Confused by new work rules that threatened to reduce their income and enraged by increases in food prices, workers looted shops and put Communist Party headquarters in several cities to the torch. That was not half so bad as what nearly happened, reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines, who has just returned from Poland...
...envy of Poland for their superior wages and modern equipment, Gierek is filling some important government posts with fellow Silesians. To establish contact with the people, he frequently visits factories and speaks on TV and radio. He has fired the country's trade union boss and the Szczecin party chief. Well aware that 95% of his countrymen are at least nominal Roman Catholics, he is openly courting the church; his Premier, Piotr Jaroszewicz, is expected to confer with Stefan Cardinal Wyszinski, the primate of Poland, in the near future-the first such meeting in almost a decade...
Some of the most terrifying demonstrations were in Szczecin, Poland's biggest seaport. A Radio Sweden reporter named Anders Thunberg described the scene outside party headquarters. "Tanks have made repeated attacks on the crowd," he said in a brief telephone call to Stockholm. "The people had to give way in order not to be run over. But a mother and her young daughter did not manage to get away. A tank at high speed crushed both of them. A young soldier stood by, crying and watching." The demonstrators, mainly from the Warski shipyards, burned police cars and rampaged through...
East Germany has condemned the midi as unsocialistic, but the women of Warsaw and Wroclaw have taken to it with a vengeance. In the shipyards of Gdansk and Szczecin, long hair pokes out from under the green hard hats of younger workers. All over Poland, Communist Party youth clubs reverberate to the latest rock sounds. To be sure, the scene in Cracow is vastly different from the one in California, and when a young Pole talks about turning on, he is probably referring to Radio Warsaw's Third Program, which features hits from the West. A quarter-century after...
...alone." Shouting down professors who called for calm, they cut classes and jostled with police the next day. In Lublin, at the Communist bloc's only Roman Catholic university, several students were arrested after clashing with police. Elsewhere, bitter but nonviolent protest flared-in Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin in the west, in Gdansk on the Baltic and in Lodz, near Warsaw...