The World - News from Jan. 10, 1986

Lech Walesa, founder of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity trade union, urged the government to reform the nation’s corrections system and release its remaining political prisoners. In an appeal sent to the Roman Catholic primate, Cardinal Josef Glemp, the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner said that conditions for the more than 100,000 prisoners in Polish jails must be improved as part of a general reform. “The requirement that all political prisoners are freed is the main demand of the people and a condition for any dialogue between the people and the authorities,” he said.