Word: wroclaw
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...regime also holds the power to veto assignments of bishops to particular cities. In an outrageous case, the Communists rejected 20 candidates for Archbishop of Wroclaw before accepting the supposedly "safe" Henryk Gulbinowicz. Jokes Minister Kakol: "The church knows the way we function, so the simplest thing would be for them to put their favorite candidate in last place...
...addition to the Warsaw operation, the government has permitted similar gieldy samochodowe (automobile exchanges) in Gdansk, Wroclaw and Lodz. For some Sunday salesmen, business could not be better. At the Warsaw mart, one enterprising Pole had already sold five cars for profits ranging from $150 to $1,000. He needs the money. In the best capitalist tradition, he is working his way through college...
...theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...
...Italian cardinals to 41. France follows with 13, the U.S. with twelve, an all-time high. France, Spain, Australia and Brazil each got two new cardinals, and there was one each for Germany, Portugal, Pakistan, Colombia, Poland, Argentina, Mexico and Japan. The Polish nominee-Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek, 67, of Wroclaw-brings the number of Polish cardinals to three, a sign of the Vatican's appreciation of Polish Catholics' devotion...
...curfew was imposed on Gdansk-but it was too late. Within hours, similar popular explosions, equally violent, had broken out in the nearby towns of Gdynia and Sopot. Like a sizzling fuse, resentment over the higher prices and other government policies spread to cities and towns across Poland: Wroclaw, Poznan, Katowice, Slupsk, Lodz, Cracow and Warsaw itself...