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- WORLD, Page 52World NotesPOLANDExtra! Freedom Of the Press
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- When the Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette) hit the
- newsstands in Warsaw last week, the paper not only had the day's
- hottest story, it was the story. The first Solidarity daily ever
- to be published legally in Poland, the Gazeta ran a large
- portrait of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and an account of his
- meeting with Jozef Cardinal Glemp. The edition also carried six
- pages profiling the union's candidates in next month's
- parliamentary elections.
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- Because of a technical glitch, only 150,000 copies of the
- first few issues rolled off the presses, but the projected
- circulation is 500,000. Under the agreement reached during the
- round-table talks between union and government leaders last
- month, the paper, rechristened Gazeta Codzienna (Daily Gazette),
- will continue to be published after the election. While the
- editors have announced their intention to "present views and
- opinions of the whole independent society," the Gazeta will no
- doubt always have a favorite subject. The paper's motto: "There
- is no freedom without Solidarity."
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