Solidarity Agrees to Join `Round Table'; Warsaw Gives Banned Union No Assurances on Legalization

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 17, 1988| Author: Jackson Diehl | Copyright information

The banned Solidarity trade union and the communist leadership of Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed here today to open broad negotiations on the country's future next month after a six-hour meeting in which authorities pleaded for the opposition's patience in seeking Solidarity's reinstatement.

Following the marathon session between a 10-member Solidarity delegation led by union chief Lech Walesa and a government group led by Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, Solidarity leaders said...