POLAND: RESUMPTION OF TALKS

Created: 8/24/1981

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POLANDi Resumption of Talks

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or the union's demands for greater access to the media and negotiation of planned increases In bread prices The most difficult issue is likely to be the union's desire to air its own regular radio and television pro-grama froe of significant government censorship, enior Solidarity official want, the government tocontrol of radio and television to parliament and to ^tUjns' committee to set broaocasJing t0

rinter9in8Ml1 Provincial capital, meanwhile, remain on strike, prompting militantsto threaten sympathy strikes. Union officials

controversy. Another dispute.

In the industrial center of Katowice, involves the censorship of union publications and worker self-management. Issues that are of special importance to many union activists. Workersarge steel mill areeferendum in an effort to remove the rectory director, who permitted the shutdown of the union newsletter because it published allegedlyvict material, eeness

Moscow CitOB "Lessons" ofrisis

A statement on Saturday by ths Soviet Politburo, asserting that Poland's problems result from straying from Leninist principles, probably was intended to remind

l"nperhaps other Eastthe need to adhere to the orthodox policies approved by Moscow, its tone, however, was not threatening, and its languagebroad enough to allow some tactical latitude. Tne remarks cameoutine release approving Soviet party leader Brezhnev's recent talks with his Eastcounterparts, femes*.

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a^*aiihakannouncfbenthat Poland faces "acutehf20mena and "affirmed the concern of all

e?Chrests. It did not imply, however, an immediate needore

e byor theaction by the Puies themselves.

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