The World - News from Sept. 11, 1988
Solidarity’s 15-member National Executive Committee gave Lech Walesa full authority to negotiate on the union’s future with Poland’s Communist authorities at talks expected to open later this month. In a statement issued after daylong deliberations in the port city of Gdansk, birthplace of Solidarity, the committee asked the authorities to declare readiness to restore its legality and take other steps to create a good atmosphere for the talks. The union was outlawed in 1982.
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