The World - News from July 24, 1985
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Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski will attend the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September, his first visit to the West since taking power in 1981, government spokesman Jerzy Urban announced. Urban avoided questions at a news conference in Warsaw on whether Jaruzelski plans to see President Reagan or Secretary of State George P. Shultz, saying he would not discuss “hypothetical meetings.”
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