POLAND: Jaruzelski To Travel to Moscow
Polish party leader Jaruzelski will visit Moscow after this week's Central Committee piemen. ell-placed Church official said Walesa is in good physical and mentaloe revealed its plane for "tarns" trade unions.
TASS yesterday reported that Jaruzelski will go to Moscow early next month. On wednosday and Thursday the Central Committee willirst plenum since the imposition of martial law. m
Commenti The announcement ofisit has been expected. The Soviets will want Jaruzelski to reassure them that he intends to curb popular resistance and main* tain full control. They will press him to go further towardrogram^or revitalizing the oconomy and rebuilding tho
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Central Committee session will discussenure as party leader and how long military rule should last. The meeting will also assess the extent ofand the future of the trade union movement . flBa
Comment! Failure of the party's highest body to meet had become an increasingly embarrassing reminder of its Impotence and was likely an irritant to Moscow. The Polish leadership probably concluded that, whatever the differences between moderates end conservatives, the Central Committee bad to be convened to give at least the appearance^of tackling its own and the country'e problems, fl^
extorto toediating continue to be frustrated by the regime's refusal to enter negotiations with Solidarity or to maketo the Church in othere eald Walesa was in good physical and mental health and thatecent visit, bis prleat found him to be more realistic and resilient. The press report of Walesa's release in time for hie daughter's christeningarchrial
by the Church, but the regime has yet to respond.
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h^sc^yo^ioririalcy andsmenmBBBBBmBBmBmeemB^ probably not shared by all clerics. These attitudes, however,undamental belief that the Church will survive long after the current rulers are buried and forgotten, in tactical terms, this means that the Church will notprecipitously to day-to-day events. | |
Trade Unions Proposal
The Polish Government has presented for public discussion its proposal for the reestablishment of trade unions. The document says that unions will be self-governing and independent from the state and that their opinions will be "seriously taken into account" onquestions.
Future union activities will, however, be under strict supervision. Unions will not be allowed to enter into "antisoctalist politicalheir right to strike and establish relations with western unions will be severely curtailed, and persons known for their "destructive actions" will not be allowed to return to union activity,
Comment: The regime clearly foresees only the return of "tame" unions which will exclude almost all of Solidarity's leaders and advisers. It seems unlikely that such unions can establish much credibility with workers, and the demand for ^real" unions will continue to plague the government.
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