The World - News from Dec. 9, 1985

Poland suffers from what is believed to be the worst environmental pollution in the world, a report by the Polish Communist Party said. The report, blaming mistaken economic policies and political “absurdities,” said that only 364 of Poland’s 800 cities have modern sewage processing plants and that Warsaw is not scheduled to get one until 1990. It also said that Polish rivers are polluted and that heavy clouds of factory smoke hang over the landscape because big plants turn off air-scrubbing equipment to save power.