Letter from the Publisher, Sept. 1, 1980

"Whether the place is Afghanistan, El Salvador, Zimbabwe or the Great Wall of China." Says World Senior Editor John Elson, "there are staff people here in New York with special background, training and knowledge on just about any subject that can come up, who can be called on to give a story extra depth and insight."

Two such people are Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and John Kohan. This week their cover subject was Poland, where the remarkable spectacle of a Communist government negotiating with its own workers was unfolding.

Gallo has been World's...

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