The World - News from Feb. 24, 1987

Polish Communist Party members must be more critical and remove incompetent officials, Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski said in a speech to Warsaw party activists. “We have been watching carefully the . . . transformations taking place in the Soviet Union,” he said, referring to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reforms and policy of glasnost, or openness. “Our party wholeheartedly supports this line . . . which does not lead to diluting socialism (but) . . . prevents socialism from getting mummified or frozen.”