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...each other," she says. "If someone does not come back in two hours, then another person goes out and takes his place in line." Such creative absenteeism, however, hampers the nation's productivity and thus aggravates the problem of shortages. Moans Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka: "People cannot work because they have to stand in line, and they have to stand in line because people are not working. It's a vicious circle...
...conspicuous change has occurred in the press. While still censored, newspapers and magazines now print real news along with government propaganda. Says Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka (circ. 285,000): "During the past few months, we have published all the articles that were confiscated by the censors over the past two years-well, maybe not all, maybe we've got two or three left." Polityka, which is edited by a member of the Central Committee, recently ran an unexpurgated interview with Walesa and other prominent members of Solidarity. Poles are a bit overwhelmed by this...
...propaganda campaign against the strikes. On Wednesday the party daily Trybuna Ludu warned of "national catastrophe" if the walkouts continued and pointedly noted that "our country lies in the direct security zone of the world socialist power-the Soviet Union." Mieczyslaw Rakowski, influential editor of the party periodical Polityka, declared on national television: "I am very frightened. Our country is in a precarious position. Our national survival is at stake...
...series. State-run retail enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
Even Bungling. So far he has not been able to manage that. While factory payrolls are rising, productivity is actually declining. A leading Warsaw weekly, Polityka, lauds Gierek for having done "an immense amount of work," but notes that "too much passiveness, laziness and impotence have comfortably survived around us." The official press agency has spoken of "ineffective organization, indolence of management, insufficient productivity and sometimes even bungling" in the economy. If that keeps up, Gierek is likely to face the same sort of public hostility and disbelief that compelled Gomulka to resort to force as the only means...