Word: szczepanski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jail sentences ranging from three to 6½ years. In Tarnow, three workers drew three-to 3½-year terms. Three employees of the F.S.O. automobile plant in Warsaw got two years each. In the same Warsaw court building, meanwhile, proceedings began in the highly publicized trial of Maciej Szczepanski, the former head of the state broadcasting networks, who is accused of embezzlement and bribetaking. He is one of several former officials, including former Party Boss Edward Gierek, who face criminal charges stemming from their alleged corruption and economic mismanagement...
...dint of sacrifice and subterfuge, the Poles scrape by somehow, and no one is starving. Families save their coupons for ham or pork on Sunday or buy on the black market. Says Stanislaw Szczepanski, Vice Minister of Agriculture: "To Poles, a meal is not a meal without a piece of pork. It is a matter of status." Those who cannot get meat make do on Sunday with pierogi, pastry stuffed with a kind of cottage cheese...
Poland's Communist Party was undergoing its own housecleaning. In a continuing purge, Radio and Television Chief Jozef Barecki was sacked just four weeks after replacing his disgraced predecessor, Maciej Szczepanski, still under investigation for embezzlement. Barecki's apparent sin: years of loyal service to discredited ex-Party Boss Edward Gierek. Further changes were expected. Warsaw's new leader, Stanislaw Kania, continued to shape his own administration. Said Interpress Director Miroslaw Wojciechowski: "The situation is new. It demands new faces, new attitudes. It is a question of democracy within the party...
...brewing within the party ranks. The official press hinted at impending purges that would be aimed at "clearing from the party ranks those individuals who have given in to the temptations of an easier life and corruption." The notorious example that was held up was that of Maciej Szczepanski, the Gierek confidant who formerly ran the state broadcasting network and now stands accused of embezzlement. Also purged were two other top party officials: Zdzislaw Grudzien, party chief in Katowice and a Politburo member, and Jerzy Zasada, party leader in Poznan. There were indications that more heads would roll at both...