Gierek
Americannoun
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In all, Gierek imported about $10 billion worth of modern capital goods.
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Far heavier losses were sustained by the Central Committee, which is still dominated by holdovers from the regime of deposed Party Boss Edward Gierek: less than a third of its 146 members were chosen.
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More important, Kania was able to build on something Gierek had lost: Moscow's confidence.
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Walesa also proved adept at hard bargaining once the Gierek government, afraid that the rebellion would spread, finally agreed to negotiate.
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Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, a pragmatic politician who had replaced Gierek in September 1980, shrewdly adopted the cause of renewal in the hope of controlling it from the top and limiting its scope.
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