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After the Pope's visit, Zycie Warszawy noted that the event had gone smoothly, although certain unnamed parties—obviously Western journalists—had predicted a "Polish mess" and "Polish disorganization." Mieczyslaw Rakowski, editor of the journal Polityka (circ. 290,000) and a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee, complained that some foreign newsmen "did not always write honestly." He added, with unintended irony, "They wrote as if they had been programmed."