Warsaw regime frees internees
NZPA-Reuter Warsaw Poland’s martial law authorities have quietly begun to release some of its estimated 2500 political .internees while fugitive Solidarity leaders called yesterday for a freeze on strikes and demonstrations. Some of those freed from camps and prisons around the country said that- they expected the flow to gather momentum. The unpublicised releases began as underground leaders of the suspended union movement cirulated their appeal for the suspension of strikes and demon-
strations until the end of July and for reciprocal gestures from the authorities. The leaflet, dated June 26 but released on the day marking the start of the eighth month of martial law, said that the gestures should include the release of political internees and an anmesty for those punished under martial law rules. The'four signatories of the appeal, representing Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakow and Wroclaw, said that the freeze also was designed to ease the way for a planned visit to Poland next month by Pope John Paul.
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