Criticism in Soviet journal strikes high Polish official

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

May 10, 1983

Warsaw

The latest issue of the Soviet journal New Times has shocked Poles, Monitor special correspondent Eric Bourne reports. Available in Polish translation, a New Times article harshly attacked the Polish weekly Polityka for its ''revisionist'' attitudes toward the Polish crisis. Throughout that period the editor of Polityka was Vice-Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who is now Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski's right-hand man.