WARSAW (PUP) — Presenting a re-
port on current actions of the govern-
ment, Polish Prime Minister Pinkowski
pointed out that the current meeting of
the Polish Seym (parliament) was being
conducted in a calm atmosphere. The
agreements reached with the strike
committees, he said, have been accepted
by the Polish public with marked relief
and hope that we shall find a way out of
the present social and economic situation
and that we shall solve the problems
which arose.

Poland’s return to a normal life is wel-
comed by society with satisfaction and
with expectations for the speedy removal
of the causes which led to this exception-
ally difficult situation.

The Council of Ministers, with
changes in composition, has begun to
overhaul its action program. However,
the preparation of a complex, long-range
action program will require time.

The consistent respect for social ob-
jectives will be the supreme principle,
the premier said. In line with announce-
ments, wage increases for various groups
of workers will be continued in stages.
Regulation of wages and social welfare
issues will cover all employees with ac-
count being taken of the specifics of indi-
vidual branches and professions.

Wage increases will be carried out in
stages and completed by June, 1981. No
professional groups will be skipped over.
Wage increases will affect, first of all,
workers who, over the past years, re-

New Polish
head active

resistance
fighter

WARSAW (PUP) — Due tothe
serious illness of former First
Secretary of the Polish United
Workers’ Party, Edward Gierek,
the Central Committee of the
PUWP relieved him of his duties.

’ as First Secretary and Member of
the PUWP Political Bureau.

The Central Committee ap-
pointed Stanislaw Kania as. First
Secretary of the Central Commit-
tee. The new party leader was
born in 1927 and was a black-
smith. In 1944 he was active in the
Polish resistance against Nazi oc-
cupation. After the liberation he
was co-founder of the ZWN
Youth Combat circle. In April ||
1945 he joined the Polish Work- ||
ers’ Party and was active in youth |
and Party organizations. -

In 1958 he assumed the post of
head of the Agricultural Depart-
ment of the PUWP and was
elected a member of the PUWP
Central Committee at its Sth Con-
gress. In 1975 he was elected a
member of the PUWP Political
Bureau.

Stanislaw Kania new Polish

~ Poland’s prime minister

outlines new social policy

ceived the lowest increases or, in some
cases, wage cuts.

We shall strive to narrow the gap be-
tween the highest and lowest wages, the
Premier said. Lowest income and multi-
children families will be the first to re-
ceive this assistance. Living conditions
of the disabled and of old-age pensioners
will also be improved.

The premier also said that unjustified
cost-of-living increases will be coun-
teracted and announced new controls in
prices. Meat and meat products, for
example, will be frozen until the autumn
of 1981.

The government will introduce in 1981
free Saturdays and steps to shorten the
work-week to 42'/2 hours.

The Premier said that decisions were
taken to increase market supplies of food
stuffs. All in all, market supplies in this
sector should increase by 25-30,000-
million zlotys.

' The government will be consistently
implementing the agricultural policies

charted jointly by the Polish United
Workers’ Party and the United Peasants’
Party, creating stable conditions for the
development of farming, both
privately-owned and socialized. Farm-
land, as a national asset, should feed our
society ever better each year, Premier
Pinkowski said.

He arinounced the creation of favora-
ble conditions for the development of
housing construction including devoting
attention to one-family housing.

a * *

Prime Minister Pinkowski said that
continuing scientific, ecoriomic and
technical cooperation with the states of
the Council for Mutual Economic Assis-
tance (CMEA), especially with the
Soviet Union, is of key importance for
Polish development.

Life has confirmed once more that we
can always count on fraternal under-
standing and aid from this quarter. A
large part of fuels and raw materials used
in Poland come from CMEA member

states and especially from the USSR. We
want to make better use, he continued, 0
the values of this cooperation and the
possibilities resulting from socialist
economic integration.
In the final part of his speech, the
Prime Minister stressed that the perma
nence and inviolability of Poland’s a —
liances, especially the one with the —
Soviet Union, is of basic importance for
Poland’s sovereign existence and dé
velopment. Together with our alliances:
with other socialist states, Poland’
cooperation within the Warsaw Treaty ©
and CMEA, we will continue to develop
and defend these alliances and
them as our highest value, he said.
Poland is interested in the further de
velopment of economic, scientific
technical cooperation with all countries: _
The Prime Minister announced that
will be done to present parliament
the public with a full and realistic prog
ram for solving the difficulties and put |
ting the national economy in order.

Declaring Jerusalem its “eternal capital,” Israel has begun a 25-year annexation plan.

An eternal capital
or eternal problem?
Israel's hawkish, expan-
sionist stance has resulted in
another universal slap by
the world community. In
July, acting on a motion
presented: by an_ ultra-
nationalist member, the
Knesset passed a Bill dec-
laring all of Jerusalem, in-
cluding the occupied east-

‘ern sector, the country’s —

‘eternal capital.”
Added ‘to condemnations
by many states, the United
Nations Security Council
voted 14-0 with the U.S.
abstaining, to urge those
states with embassies in
Jerusalem to pull them out.

Throughout the years of
contention over the em-
bassy issue (remember Joe
Clark's gaff?) only 13 coun-
tries situated their embas-

sies there. The rest of the
world community honored
the fact that Jerusalem’s
status is a key part of an
eventual overall peace plan
and located diplomatic
facilities in Tel Aviv.

And so the exodus be-
gins. Twelve Latin Ameri-
can missions and that of
Holland are now relocating.
Israel’s move has backfired.

With characteristic arro-
gance, the government an-
nounced new settlement
programs on occupied lands
and a 25-year ‘‘develop-
ment’ plan for Jerusalem
annexing ever more Arab
territory.

Moulded by the
hand of God

It must be increasingly
hard for the United States to

' peddle its image of the Free

World’s friend given the
friends it keeps.

Carter fell over himself
welcoming Vietnamese
boat people and Cuban
freedom flotilla people. He
expressed his sudden in-
terest in the Polish labor
movement. He has gone on
record. everywhere (where
it’s been convenient)
defending human rights.

But he has a dilemma in
South Korea where a new
president was ‘‘chosen"’
last week following months
of civil strife and a barbaric
clean-up by the army.

An obscure military gen-
eral, Chun Doo Hwan, de-
scribed by aides as
“‘moulded by the hand of
God” now rules the land.
He scrambled up the ladder
following the death of dic-
tator Park Chung Hee last
year.and, after jailing all op-

position leaders, muzzling
the press and bringing a
perpetual state of

emergency down on the —

country, was sworn in as
president.

The dirty state of affairs
in South Korea, a place
seething with unrest over a
complete absence of any
civil rights, is becoming an
embarrassment to the Car-
ter “human rights’ image.

But, with good old Real-
politik overcoming any
overdue humanitarianism, a
State Department official
sighs, ‘‘We can offer some
suggestions ... but we can’t
do much more than that."’

What he means, of

course, is that the whole rot-

ten system in South Korea
suits U.S. interests and is
bolstered by 39,000 U.S.
troops. Ah well, aren't
human rights wonderful?

leader.

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