The Institute’s publications include Nierzeczywistość (Unreality) by Kazimierz Brandys, The Gulag Archipelago Vol. III by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Szkice o literaturze emigracyjnej (Sketches on Émigré Literature) by Maria Danilewicz-Zielińska, Czas odmieniony (An Altered Time) by Maria Czapska, Nasze życie rośnie (Our Life Grows) by Ryszard Krynicki, Zasady ideowe (Political Principles) by Jacek Kuroń, and The Main Currents of Marxism Vol. III by Leszek Kołakowski.
POLAND
The Founding Committee of Free Trade Unions on the Baltic Coast comes into being.
WORLD
Karol Cardinal Wojtyła, archbishop of Kraków, is elected pope and assumes the name John Paul II. First test-tube baby is born.