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Jaruzelski eases up on martial law, but not much
...Poles quietly marked the beginning of the eighth month of military rule last week, there were signs in Warsaw that some easing of martial law might be on the way. Rumors spread that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski planned, among other steps, to release all but 600 of the 2,300 prisoners still held, according to official count, in detention camps. At week's end the Communist Party hierarchy was reshuffled in the first major shake-up since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. The main victim was hard-line Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, who lost...
...occasionally do-frisk, detain and arrest on sight is what cannot be seen any more: the once ubiquitous Solidarity pins on coat lapels and the political slogans that seemed to be scrawled on every available wall. But if the shock and fear of the first dark days of martial law have now passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days, the streets of major cities are empty by early evening. Cracow's ancient market square, normally crowded with youths, folk singers and tourists, seems as lifeless...
...lifted without admitting error? Ostensibly, the sanctions were first imposed, and then tightened, in retaliation for the imposition of martial law in Poland. In the past, State Department officials have listed three conditions for easing the ban: an end to martial law; freeing all Polish political prisoners; the start of negotiations among the Polish government, the Solidarity trade union and the Roman Catholic Church. Administration sources privately concede that the White House would now accept any one of these steps-or even a milder move, such as the release of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa from house arrest-as justification...
...white Mineworkers' Union is fighting to preserve the job reservation system. Union officials have warned that if blacks are issued blasting certificates there will be a repeat of the 1922 "red revolt," when mineworker riots forced then Prime Minister Jan Smuts to declare martial law. At the annual meeting of the union's general council, Mineworkers' President Cor de Jager denounced the government commission's recommendation that skilled jobs be opened to all races. Said he: "For the sake of the money bosses and the blacks, the white workers are to be placed on an altar...