POLAND: EAST EUROPEAN PROPAGANDA PRESSURE

Created: 7/7/1981

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Brezhnev's departureacation on Saturday suggests that be is notajor policy decision on Poland this week. _ _

. the communique issued at the end

of Gromyko's visit indicates that the Soviets are willing to let tho congress convene on schedule. xar

Meanwhile, Bast Berlin and Prague are givingpublicity to the activities of the hardline Katowice Party Forum. In an effort to depict ithriving enterprise, their reports claimorum meeting last weekndividuals from at least seven provinces. In fact, tha forum probablymall group of extreme conservatives. BMW

Participants in the forum reportedly focused their attention on the party congress, calling for th*of the mandates of those delegates who were not elected according to the party statutes. Debates over auch procedural questions will probably take up aamount of time at the congress. WW)

There has been no apparent change in the status of Sovietfprces in and around Poland.

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