The World - News from Aug. 21, 1987

The outlawed Solidarity trade union will spend a $1-million U.S. aid grant to help provide the Polish health service with much-needed medicine and equipment, its founder, Lech Walesa, said in a letter made available in Warsaw. “One of the painful issues of life in Poland is its impoverished health care,” said the letter, signed by Walesa and sent to the U.S. Congress on Aug. 8. “We have decided to earmark the entire sum allocated by the U.S. Congress to (these) social needs,” it added. The Polish government criticized Solidarity for accepting the grant, calling the union a “paid agent of the United States.”