NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY MONDAY 24 AUGUST 1981

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2009
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: August 24, 1981
• Content Type: REPORT

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24 August 1981
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: Poland: Resumption of Talks 1
Western Sahara: OAU Committee Meeting 3
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 POLAND: Resumption of Talks
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SoZidaritg and government representatives are slated to dis-
cuss several key issues this week despite continuing ZocaZ labor
The two sides are expected to resume discussions
of the union's demands for greater access to the media
and negotiation of planned increases in bread prices.
The most difficult issue is likely to be the union's
desire to air its own regular radio and television pro-
grams free of significant government censorship.
Solidarity printers in one small provincial capital,
meanwhile, remain on strike, prompting militants else-
where to threaten sympathy strikes. Union officials
are trying to settle the controversy. Another dispute,
in the industrial center of Katowice, involves the
censorship of union publications and worker self-
management, issues that are of special importance to
many union activists. Workers in a large steel mill
are organizing a referendum in an effort to remove the
factory director, who permitted the shutdown of the
union newsletter because it published allegedly anti-
Soviet material.
Moscow Cites "Lessons" of Polish Crisis
A statement on Saturday by the Soviet Politburo,
asserting that Poland's problems result from straying
from Leninist principles, probably was intended to remind
Polish leaders--and perhaps other East Europeans--of the
need to adhere to the orthodox policies approved by
Moscow. Its tone, however, was not threatening, and its
language was broad enough to allow some tactical latitude.
The remarks came in a routine release approving Soviet
party leader Brezhnev's recent talks with his East Euro-
pean counterparts.
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The announcement asserted that Poland faces "acute
crisis phenomena" and reaffirmed the concern of all
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did not imply, however, an immediate need for a more
active role by Poland's allies or the desirability of
precipitate action by the Poles themselves.
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WESTERN SAHARA: OAU Committee Meeting
Senior OAU officials expect ZittZe immediate progress at the
summit meeting today and tomorrow in Nairobi of the organization's
committee charged with implementing a cease-fire in Western Sahara
and supervising a referendwn on the territory's future.
The committee's members appear almost evenly divided
in their sympathies toward Morocco, which is seeking to
legitimize its claim to the Sahara by an unspecified
formula for a "confirmatory" referendum, and toward the
Polisario Front guerrillas and their Algerian backers,
who are demanding self-determination without conditions.
Moroccan King Hassan and Algerian President Bendjedid
both plan to attend the meeting.
Discussions may founder over Hassan's insistence
that voter eligibility be determined on the basis of the
Spanish census of the territory taken in 1974. The
Polisario Front and Algeria are calling for a new inter-
nationally supervised count that would presumably include
other "Saharans" now in Polisario guerrilla camps.
Algeria's interest in compromise apparently has
increased since the beginning of the year, and it is
less willing to support the guerrillas' extreme demands.
Algiers is allegedly prepared to show considerable flex-
ibility on terms of a settlement as long as some form of
independent Saharan state is established.
Recent Polisario spellings of Moroccan positions
in the disputed territory and a sizable attack on an
outpost inside southern Morocco, in violation of the OAU
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support.
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