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...regular butchershops. When Polish workers get angry, the regime has learned to take them seriously. Ten years ago, the government used force to halt strikes in the Baltic ports against high food prices. The ensuing bloodshed-hundreds of workers were killed-led to the downfall of Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Gierek, who replaced him, prudently called off another attempt to raise meat prices four years ago. This time Gierek has chosen to defuse the confrontation by granting wage increases of up to 15%, while maintaining the higher meat prices...
...Vatican's Wladyslaw Rubin, 61, secretary-general of the International Synod of Bishops, and Franciszek Macharski, 52, John Paul's scholarly protégé and successor as Archbishop of Cracow...
During the year, the President and his wife received gifts worth $100 or more from 68 donors. Included were a crossbow from Admirer Wladyslaw Adamowski of Poland, a handmade Cherokee Indian headdress from Iron Eyes Cody of Los Angeles, a 32-cassette tape recording of the Koran recited by Mahmond El Husary of Cairo's Islamic Academy, and a vermeil chain with 62 gold peanut pendants from Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy. All of the gifts were turned over to the Government, with five exceptions; a Norman Rockwell book from the Boy Scouts of America, a limited edition...
...intellectuals have become active on behalf of the jailed demonstrators, who are serving up to ten years in prison. A defense committee, including such dissidents as Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski and Economist Edward Lipiński, has collected $20,000 for the families of the jailed workers. Former Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski addressed an open letter to the government, protesting police brutality against the workers. "It proves," he declared, "that some people have ceased to pursue the goals of serving the people and have become a gangrene transmitting the rot to other parts of public life." In an interview broadcast...
Reliance on Western credit reflects some profound changes in Eastern Europe. Since 1970, when riots by Polish workers protesting higher food prices brought down Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Soviet-bloc countries have made a determined effort to improve the material standard of living of their people. Encouraged by diplomatic détente, they have developed a voracious appetite for Western products, buying everything from consumer goods to entire factories. One result: the economic woes of the capitalist world, to which Communist planners initially thought they would be immune, by last year made themselves felt on the other side...