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...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...
Whatever happens to Poland, her writers must not forget the lessons of history, said Jan Jozef Szczepanski at the International Seminar last night. Speaking on "Societies in Transition," Szczepanski cited the Polish writers' role in the last 185 years as a guide to contemporary authors' quest for freedom...
...Cleaners. In Detroit, 30 minutes after robbing his fifth cleaning establishment. Service Station Attendant Edward Szczepanski, 17, told police: "My girl has expensive tastes . . . My conscience would bother me after the holdups, and sometimes I thought I would surrender; then I'd want to take her out, and I'd hold up another cleaning store...