POLISH PRESS OF JANUARY 27

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000800120015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 27, 1982
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJI (U) POLISH PRESS OF JANUARY 27
1. (LOU) ANTI-AMERICAN CAMPAIGN HEATING UPS TRYBUNA LUDU
IS NOW LEADING THE WAY IN THE ANTI?US PRESS CAMPAIGN.
TODAY'S PARTY ORGAN CONTAINS TWO VENEMOUS ATTACKS BY
JOURNALIST DANIEL LULINSKI. THE FIRST CONTAINS THE SPECIFIC
CHARGE THAT THE AMERICAN POLICY IS TRYING TO PROVOKE A
BLOODY CIVIL WAR IN POLAND. THE SECOND PIECE SPECIFICALLY
LINKS ICA AND THE DAY OF SOLIDARITY PROJECT WITH,CIA
MACHINATIONS AND STRONGLY IMPLIES THAT SOME SOLIDARITY
"EXTREMISTS" WERE CIA AGENTS. (SEE SEPTEL.) ZYCIE
WARSZAWY IS TAME BY COMPARISONS IT?.S ONLY CONTRIBUTION
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TO TODAY'S PROPAGANDA BARRAGE IS AN INTERVIEW WITH AN
INTERNATIONAL LAW PROFESSOR WHO REJECTS THE IDEA THAT MARTIAL
LAW IS IN ANY WAY A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
ZOLNIERZ WOLNOSCI IS COMPARATIVELY QUIET ON THE ANTI-US
FRONT. CONTRIBUTING ONLY THE FULL TEXT OF A SPEECH IN THE
SEJM BY AN ARMY DEPUTY WHO ATTACKS PRESIDENT REGAN FOR A
"COWBOY" FOREIGN POLICY AS WELL AS US SUPPORT OF SOLIDARITY
EXTREMISTS.
2. (LOU) SEJM SESSION CONCLUDES: THE LEAD ITEM IN ALL
MAJOR DAILIES IS THE END OF THE TWO DAY PARLIAMENTARY
SESSION JANUARY 269 THE FINAL DAY'S BUSINESS INCLUDED THE
PASSAGE OF THE "TEACHERS' CHARTER" GIVING APPARENTLY SOMEWHAT
GREATER AUTONOMY TO LOCAL SCHOOLS AND THE APPROVAL-OF THE
NOMINATION OF NEW MINISTERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION (POZNAN U?
RECTOR. BENON MISKIEWICZ) AND MARITIME ECONOMY (FIRST DEPUTY
MINISTER IN THE MARITIME MINISTRY, JERZY KORZONEK).
3. LOU - ON THE HUSTINGSS THREE PUWP NOTABLES SPOKE AT
LOCAL PARTY GATHERINGS JANUARY 26. STEFAN OLSZOWSKI
PEORTEDLY TOLD WLOCLAWIEK PARTY ACTIVISTS TO TRY TO WIN
OVER FORMER SOLIDARITY MEMBERS TO THE PUWP. THOUGH HE HAD
WORDS OF HIGH PRAISE FOR THE WRON. JARUZELSKI AND MARTIAL
LAW. HE POINTEDLY TOLD THE GATHERING THAT ONLY THE PARTY
CAN ACCOMPLISH THE MOST DIFFICULT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
TASKS. ANOTHER HARDLINER, PARTY SECRETARY AND FORMER MINISTER
OF INTERIOR MILEWSKI? TOLD A SUWALKI PUWP MEETING THAT THE
PARTY MOST NEEDED A "CONSOLIDATION'CF THE RANKS BEHIND A
UNITED POLITICAL LINE." BUT POLITBURO MEMBER JERZY ROMANIK
APPARENTLY GOT SOME TOUGH QUESTIONING FROM THE MINERSHE
VISITED IN SILESIA$ THE QUESTIONING APPARENTLY TOUCHED ON
THE ISSUE OF HORIZONTALISM- THAT IS. THE DEMAND FOR A
GREATER VOICE FOR THE BASIC PARTY ORGANIZATIONS IN SETTING
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS. ROMANIK ASSURED THE MINERS THAT
THE CENTRAL PARTY AUTHORITIES WOULD HEED THE OPINIONS OF THE
RANK AND FILE.
4. (LOU) DEBT PAYMENT PROBLEMS: THE DAILIES RECORD SOME
INTERESTING TESTIMONY BEFORE A SEJW COMMISSION ON TRADE BY
FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER NEWTOROWICZ. CITING PROBLEMS IN
DEBT REPAYMENT AND THE SUSPENSION OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH
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POLAND'S CREDITORS OF DEBT RESCHEDULING, NEWTOROWICZ
CITED SEVERAL LARGE FACTORIES' INCLUDING THE URSUS TRACTOR
PLANT AND THE FIAT FACTORY IN BIELSKOwBIALA, WHERE PRODUCTION
WILL HAVE TO BE CUT BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF HARD
CURRENCY FOR IMPORTED PARTS AND MATERIALS.
5. (LOU) IN THE DOCKETS ZYCIE WARSZAWY AND ZOLNIERZ
WOLNOSCI BOTH REPORT MORE TRAINS FOR VIOLATIONS OF MARTIAL
LAW REGULATIONS. A WARSAW MAN RECEIVED FOUR YEARS IMPRISONMENT
'FOR ADVOCATING OPPOSITION TO AUTHORITIES WHILE MILITARY
1PROSECUTORS HAD 60 PEOPLE ARRESTED AND THE MILITARY COURTS
tSENTENCED 45 DEFENDANTS' ALL DURING THE WEEK OF JANUARY 18
\TO 22. ALL OF THE CASES TRIED IN THE MILITARY COURT
APPEARED TO BE POLITICALI SOLIDARNOSC ACTIVISTS RECEIVED
ENTENCES FROM TWO TO SIX YEARS FOR SUCH "CRIMES" AS
RGANIZING STRIKES, SPREADING RUMORS, URGING DEFIANCE OF
ARTIAL LAW AUTHORITIES AND PUTTING UP ANTI-MARTIAL LAW
RAFFITI.
EEHAN
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