POLAND: Party Reaction to Solidarity Letter
The Polish party and Solidarity appear headed for athe union'j open letter supporting free trade unionthe OSSX and Eastern Europe. 1
source BBmmTftaW has indicated that the party Politburo will swat today totrategy to force Solidarity to withdraw its jupport for the letter. The source, who probably reflects the views of.the leadership, believes that Poland cannot be sewn by its alliesenter of subversion.and that the issuance of the letter brings Poland to .its most serious crisis to date. Ssmmmmmmmm*
.The source speculated that the party might direct Prime Minister Jaruzelski to demandearly asthe union repudiate its lstter or face the possibility of being declared an illegalion. The government also eight threaten to "actxtremists in
olidarity is unlikely to renounce theolish workers yesterday publicly answered the criti-cism of their Soviet counterparts and 'invited themore to Poland to learn about Solidarity firstegime may have some success in getting unionto einlmize the importance of the letter,ven Solidarity chief Walesa would not be prepared to go far enough in public to satisfy the Soviets, amj^
he regime would then be faced with the dilemma of having to make good on some of its threats. Any legal steps against the union or so-called extremists wouldtrong response fromCmmnm , ,
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Moscow has hinted that the.second session ofarity's congress set for later this month should not be held. ASS article yesterday from Warsaw claimed that Solidarity is preparing to use the new session to
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East European allies have joined Moscow's pressure campaign. Czechoslovak and Bulgarian'ave sent Jitters to their Polish counterpartsSolidarity's congress for "slandering socialism" and rejecting its support of free.trade unions elsewhere. The Hungarian party daily on Sunday issued its strongest criticism of. Solidarity since late July '
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