POLAND: Jaruzelski's Speech
Prima Minister Jaruzelski in hie speech yeeterday to the party plenum leveled the moot sweeping criticism of the US by to land in recent years, stating that washington bears tha main responsibility for endangering world peace and that the vs ie
aua^olicy of negotiation and toward confrontation.
In excerpts available Crora the speech,the Hast fox having soldood profit and said that Polandmore attention to developing its "natural
On domestic Issues, the Prime Minister againthe need for martial law and pledged thatwould not win. Be said that current tensions only prolong martial law but promised that the interior Ministry will soon ease aoro restrictions and release additional detainees.
Jaruzelski tempered his tough language by calling repeatedlynational accord" and "genuinesolutions." Be restated his commitment to reforming the bureaucracy, introducing economic reforms, andthe cooperation of students, intellectuals, and the Church. '
Jaruzelski said he supported the reforms approved at theinth Congress last summer, including the tree election process that brought About major changes in the party apparatus. Be alsoow policy, based on the system used: In the aiaitsary, that would_put greato enphasie on competence in selecting
its Tho Prime Minister has calculated that
there is little hope in the short term for improving relations with the tJS end that he has Utile to lose his hBKEil rhetoric- His comments will sit well with conservatives and in Moscow, where he willprobably next week, eeesa
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Jaruzelski has laid out clearly the regime's domestic priorities of firet reestablishing order and centraland then proceeding to seek accommodation, if possible. Poles probably will be skeptical about his conciliatory words, whloh they have heard before. Even partyheartened by his support of party reforms, realize that Jarutelski will have considerable difficultyhis intentions into specific policies andthem through bureaucracies that have long resisted change.
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