EDWARD GIEREK, who has died aged 88 ... Soon after taking office, Gierek visited Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow to assuage any fears the Soviet leader may have had about his new administration.

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A few weeks before Leonid Brezhnev was due to visit Washington ... A tense encounter with Polish leader Edward Gierek is lightened with a sidebar about how his country would surely have defeated ...

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