POLAND: MEETING OF UNION LEADERSHIP

Created: 8/11/1981

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details of the meeting yesterday have beenbut key regional leaders were included at the last moment. The government accepted Solidarity's invitation to send representatives, and an officialthe regime's economic reform proposals. Theof the government delegation suggests the regime is still interested in negotiating.

The party's Central Committee also will meet today, and from available portions of the agenda, it does not appear as if the Committee will discuss or recommend drastic changes in policy or personnel.

The government continued its somewhat threatening stance yesterday. ession of the Council ofit discussed measures "to ensure observance of the law and to prevent planned demonstrations" that threaten public peace and Poland's security. The government is particularly concernedlanned march on Warsaw to protest the holding of political prisoners, aof four dissidents. UMW

Prime Minister Jaruzelski echoed this toughhe blamed Solidarity for the breakdown ofand repeated the assertion that the regime"by all the necessary means provided for bygeneral policy line.

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