Word: szczecin
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...moderate at all. Snarled the daily Zycie Warszawy: "Who in Poland empowered the Polish bishops to repent and forgive? On whose behalf have they done it? On behalf of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and Maidanek?" Other government papers chimed in, while "students" and "workers" rallied in Lodz, Szczecin and Warsaw to accuse the prelates of meddling in foreign affairs and sabotaging the national interest...
...Holstein resigned in protest; the Socialist chairman of the Expellees' Federation cried out against the offense to Heimatsrecht. Swastikas sprouted on walls in normally progressive Berlin. Evangelical Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover received scores of hate letters, and Berlin Editorialist Karl Silex (himself a native of Stettin, now Szczecin), who welcomed the memorandum as a departure from "taboos and legal claims," found the front door of his house in flames-the work of Hetmat-righteous zealots...
...test pilot stationed in northeast Poland, Major Obacz received official clearance to log extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When...
...Polish fears have largely faded. "We are not sitting on our suitcases any more," said a Polish scientist in Szczecin. "We are here to stay." Peasants, assured by the government that there will be no forced collectivization, are expanding their holdings under a new government scheme that allows farmers to buy state land at low cost. Obviously with Vatican approval, Cardinal Wyszynski has sent Polish bishops into the area, proclaiming, "Poland has come here, plows and sows here, kneels and prays, believes and loves here...
...Szczecin, 37-year-old Henryk Jendza, chief engineer of a local shipyard, proudly shows visitors his company's latest product, a 6,000-ton freighter. The city's mayor, 35-year-old Jerzy Zielinski, admits that Poland's western territories lag behind East Germany in reconstruction, but points out that "at the end of the war not one of the 56 bridges leading into the city was still standing. Today we have the highest birth rate in Poland. We have built eight schools in the past year and are working on nine more." Like Jendza and Zielinski...