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WORLD, Page 52World NotesPOLANDExtra! Freedom Of the Press
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.
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."