POLAND

Created: 12/30/1980

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regime was successful in providing adequate holiday food supplies to placate, if not satisfy, consumers. The holiday rationing of meat and butter appeared tooderate success with guarantees of quality foodstuffs improving thr. mood of the Polish consumer. Some food probably was diverted froa Western export to satisfy domestic demand. The increase in holiday marxstthis year followed the trends of previous years,ost-holiday reversion to serious shortages acrom-paniedjjystrong public irritability seems likely. JmV

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