The World - News from May 5, 1989
Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski proposed that Parliament pass a blanket pardon for political offenses committed since the original agreements of August, 1980, that legalized Solidarity. The Communist Party chief made the conciliatory gesture in a speech opening a two-day party conference on plans for elections to be held in June. A Solidarity spokesman said the union would have no immediate comment on Jaruzelski’s proposal. New agreements concluded April 5 made the independent union legal again, after a seven-year ban.
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