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The World : Solidarity Rebirth Rejected

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Poland’s Communist Party has ruled out any possibility of Solidarity being reborn as a result of talks with the banned trade union later this month, according to a confidential party document. The document, telexed to party chiefs in factories across Poland on Sept. 26 and later given to Western reporters by Solidarity sources, said a rebirth of Solidarity is the main danger facing the party. The document, from the office of Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, appeared intended to reassure party officials. The government has invited Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders to talks in mid-October on political and economic reforms, pledging to consider the possibility of relegalizing the union banned under martial law in 1982.

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