Walesa reunion

Press, 13 April 1982, Page 9

Walesa reunion

NZPA-Reuter Warsaw Lech Walesa was reunited with his family over Easter, the first time they have been together since the leader of the Solidarity union was interned in Poland’s military take-over last December. Sources close to the family said that Danuta Walesa and her seven children travelled from their home in Gdansk to join Mr Walesa at a guarded Government villa dose to the capital where he is being held.

Mr Walesa and his wife have been brought together at least twice since last December, but this was the first time since then that Mr Walesa has seen all his children as well. Last month the authorities stopped him from returning home for the christening of their seventh child, Maria Victoria, who was born when he was already interned.

Earlier, in an Easter message to a packed congregation in Warsaw’s cathedral, the Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, accused the country’s rulers of continuing a belligerent ideological struggle against the Church despite some liberalisation of religious policy. Archbishop Glemp said the Church believed that social accord between the Communist authorities and the overwhelmingly Catholic society was possible.