European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday decembers. 1988 the stars and Stefl Page 9 Walesa defends stand in to debate Warsaw Poland api Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa sharply urged the government 10 recognize his banned Union wednesday night in an unprecedented live to debate with the head of Poland s official unions. We have to agree for Poland. Poland needs agreement Walesa told Alfred Mindowicz during the 40-Minule debate. Referring to Mindowicz s position As a member of the country s ruling politburo Wasa said serious talks Between the opposition and the govern ment could begin us soon As officials acknowledge Solidarity s right to exist. Be a Man. Make a decision Walesa told Mio. Dowicz. Tell me there is a place for Solidarity. Time is running out the debate which began after the evening news was the first Lime in five years that Walesa Hod any Hance to defend his banned Union on state con rolled television and was his most extensive appearance Ever on polish to. Dressed in a Gray suit and wearing a Solidarity badge and an image of the Black Madonna on his Lapel. Walesa looked relaxed As he and Mindowicz sat Side by Side on a set Bare except for a clock on a pc denial. I Odowick began the program addressing she Solidarity Leader As or. Walesa and urging thai there be no divisions among the work Force. Please join us in the official Trade unions. Join our democratic elections. That s the right so Lution according to me said Miodow who wore a Black shirt and no tie with a Gray suit you want me to come on my Knees to your Union. I Don t want to. I want to be myself Walesa said. ,. The debate was proposed by Mindowicz on nov. M and occupied swiftly by Walesa. It has been frequent Lopic of conversation among poles for weeks and a television official had predicted that All of Poland would come to a halt to Sec the  addition to being head of the Alliance treated by the government in 1981 to replace the banned Solidarity the 59-Vcar-old former Steelworker is a member of the ruling politburo of the polish United workers communist party. Until this year Walesa had been treated As a virtual non person by the authorities and was not permitted into polish to studios. Walesa. 45, has led Solidarity since is creation in 1980 when it a Rcw into a to million Mcm bar labor movement the first Independent Union in the East bloc. Despite being outlawed after a december 1981martial-Law crackdown. Solidarity Hai remained Active first As an underground organisation and u cd Walesa is  by supporters after his debate with the official Leader of Poland s unions. More openly since 1986. Union supporters staged two Waves of strikes this year demanding in be made Legal again. General terms for the debate were agreed upon monday Between Solidarity and the labor Alliance and technical matters were left to slate run polish television. There was no studio audience and no Moderator except to introduce Walesa and Miodo Wicz.  in Rhein land Pali has pardoned former terrorist Manfred Grashof on the grounds that Grashof has turned away from his Mili Tant views a stale government spokes Man said. Grashof 12, has been in prison for nearly 17 years. He was held in investigative custody before being sentenced in june 1977 to life imprisonment for shooting and killing policeman. Vogl visited Grashof in a Berlin Pris on last october and said he was Eon yen a that Ciras Hof had rejected terror ism As a of Raj of political action slate spokesman . " " " Grashof will be released from prison March v 1989, Schr cinch said in statement released to the news Media. The Pardon shows the government s readiness even in the Case of the mos serious crimes to clearly show that there is a Way Back into society hcs Aid. Grashof was tried and convicted by a Rheinland-pfal2 state court. Under West German Law a state governor May Issue a Pardon. It was the second Lime that Vogl. Member of the conservative Christian inc moral Union party has pardoned a terrorist serving a i Ife sentence for murder. In june Vogl pardoned former red army faction member Klaus Jurns Choc making him the Airai error isl serving a life sentence for murder to be pardoned. As in the Case of Grashof. Voc said Jurns Choc had since rejected his terrorist views. \. " ".-. What if Santa gets sat Chris Ferias boy As is a -. Good behaviour and Santa getting sick were among inc favorite topics of children writing letters to Santa in care of the stars and stripes i be been a Good boy at least one Day of the  writes Josh Allen of Heidelberg West Germany. 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