Polish rulers to extend olive branch to youth
NZPA-Reuter Warsaw
The . Polish Communist Party's top policy-making body is meeting today to discuss reconciliation with the country's disaffected youth amid growing signs that the authorities are prepared to further relax martial law. curbs. The Interior Minister (Lieutenant-General Czeslaw Kiszczak) said yesterday that there had been a "conspicuous improvement in order and discipline.”
He said that efforts tc undermine the .State by antiCommunist forces inside and outside Poland, often taking advantage of frustrated young people, were having less and less success.
Today’s meeting of the Party central committee is devoted mainly to ways of winning over disaffected
youth, bitter over the loss of the Solidarity trade union, suspended seven months ago, and over declining economic opportunities. But members are also expected to discuss, perhaps informally, possibilities for developing a more general accord between the Communist authorities and a resentful society. The military leaders have said repeatedly that relaxing the curbs of martial law and its eventual removal depend on the situation in the country. General Kiszczak was asked about persistent talk in the capital of a gesture by the authorities to mark the Polish National Day on July 22, perhaps the release of many of the estimated 2500 internees.
He replied that the implementation of martial law
was characterised by a certain flexibility, and its curbs were being 'systematically eased. General Kiszczak offered an olive branch to underground Solidarity activists, saying that if they gave up their opposition activities they would be given “understanding and assistance.” Underground union leaders called earlier this month for a freeze on strikes and street demonstrations as a gesture of their will to start a dialogue with the authorities towards reaching some form of national accord. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s ’ Communist military leader, is due to address the Sejm (Parliament) next week to outline planned developments in the country in the second half of this year.
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