Better to Let Poland Be?

Monday, Feb. 08, 1982

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Predicting the size of the world audience was problematic. In Japan, a TV executive who expected the extravaganza to be "altogether new and gripping" nevertheless thought that it would attract fewer than 4% of his country's viewers. Ratings aside, Let Poland Be Poland proved that whatever the U.S. may lack in diplomatic delicacy, it makes up in sheer spunk.

^{*Among those taping statements were the leaders of Belgium,
France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, West Germany, Portugal, Spain,
Turkey, Canada, Australia and Japan. The entire program was scheduled
to be broadcast in the last five countries. Argentina, Brazil, Gabon,
Mexico, Oman, South Africa and Togo were among other recipients.}