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as air piracy continues
MIAMI (UPI) - Armed sky
marshals moved into Miami and
other cities yesterday and airport
security guards inspected arriving
passengers in hopes of ending a wave
of air piracy that included a record
three hijackings in - a single day
Saturday.
The use of personality profile
screening for arriving passengers led
to the arrest yesterday at Miami of
three men trying to bring gasoline
aboard an airplane. One of them was
released when it was determined he
was not involved.
Police spotted Jose Antonio Pablo-
Lugones, 39, with an unusual bulge in
his pants as he tried to board an
Eastern Airlines flight to Key West,
said Bill Nettles, acting chief of the
FBI Miami office. He said a beer
bottle filled with gasoline was tied
around his waist and hanging bet
ween his legs.
Sadat rejects anti-Israeli action
CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - President
Anwar Sadat yesterday rejected' a call
by Morocco’s King Hassan to join
Moslem states in collective action to end
Israeli domination of Jerusalem and
said Egypt will continue to pursue an
independent course in the Middle East
conflict.
Sadat, in a 23-page letter to Hassan,
said Arab and Islamic nations were
partly to blame for the Israeli an
nexation of the holy city because they
fought with each other instead of con
fronting the Jewish state.
Sadat described as a “waste of time
and effort” a conference of 13 Islamic
states and the Palestine Liberation
Organization on the Jerusalem question
which opened in Casablanca Saturday.
‘‘Egypt does not care to join its hand to
the hand of those who swerved from the
right path, who are guided by their own
prejudice and who turned their back on
the Holy Book (the Koran),” Sadat said.
While Arabs contented themselves
with “screams.and threats,” Sadat said,
Egypt alone took “calculated action’ to
regain Arab rights, and even went so far
as to offer Israel a share of the Nile
River’s waters if it softened its policies
in the occupied territories.
In Jerusalem, the Cabinet discussed
Sadat’s latest letter to Prime Minister
Menachem Begin on the Palestinian
autonomy talks stalled on the Jerusalem
issue.
Sadat proposed another. Camp David
style summit after the U.S. presidential
elections in November to salvage the
peace process while accusing Israel of
heaping obstacles in the way of the talks.
Israeli government sources in
Jerusalem said Sadat’s letter, received
try to go home
They also arrested Hector Picares
Pinero, 41, when a half-pint liquor
bottle filled with gasoline was found
in his coat pocket.
Of the six hijackings that began
with a single incident Aug. 10 and
ended with Saturday’s three were
blamed on varyious Spanish
speaking men who identified
themselves as disappointed recent
immigrants seeking to return home.
The Federal Aviation Ad
minstration said yesterday it was
placing sky marshals FAA em
ployees trained in the use of arms and
law enforcement techniques on
board many commercial flights
leaving Florida airports and other
“selected" cities.
However, FAA spokesman Gordon
Richardson said they will not be
aboard every airplane.
Friday, appeared to rule out any im
mediate resumption of the negotiations
and they expected the freeze to last until
even after possible national elections in
Israel next spring.
In his letter, Hassan had urged Egypt
to take a “firm stand to check the Israeli
defiance” and make it possible for the
Arab-Islamic world to “re-embrace
Egypt, thus ending the breach that
began with the signing of the Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty, in March 1979.
“Egypt is not prepared to participate
in conferences which are a waste of time
and effort, that do not serve the interests
of Arabs and Moslems, despite the at
tempts to give them false importance,”
Israeli
JERUSALEM (UPI) , - Israel’s
Cabinet yesterday reluctantly agreed to
allow President Yithzak Navon to make
a state visit to Egypt at the invitation of
President Anwar Sadat, but left the final
decision with the Israeli head of state.
Cabinet Secretary Arye Naor said the
ministers also discussed Sadat’s letter to
Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the
stalled Palestinian autonomy talks. He
said Begin was empowered to draft a
reply to Sadat in consultation with
Israel’s chief negotiators to the talks. A
joint session to prepare the final text was
set for today.
At least two key ministers said Navon
should decline the invitation received
last Thursday, but the Cabinet decided
to approve the visit, accepting the
compromise formula put forward by
Begin.
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Cabinet permits visit to Egypt
Strike committee draws up list of demands
Polish workers unite, refuse to end stri
GDANSK, Poland (UPI) Workers from two dozen
factories and shipyards formed a joint strike com
mittee yesterday and said no one would return to work
in Poland's major northern industrial center until the
government grants a sweeping list of concessions.
The government-run radio in Gdansk broadcast a
back-to-work appeal and told strikers “outside
elements” were creating an “alarming” situation in
the Baltic coast region where more laborers joined the
walkouts.
Dissident sources said the workers would present the
government with a 16-point list of demands for basic
freedoms
Meanwhile, in Warsaw, Jan Litynski, editor of an
underground newspaper that publishes news of
workers’ protests, was placed under house arrest,
dissident sources said last night.
Jacek Kuron, chief spokesman for the dissident
Committee for Social Self-Defense, also was accosted
by police when he left his apartment earlier Sunday
and was warned to remain at home for the time being.
Dissident sources said Litynski, chief editor of the
newspaper Robotnik (The Worker), was accosted by
plainclothesmen near his home and was warned he
would be arrested if he was seen on the street.
Robotnik, a clandestine journal of Poland’s worker
dissidents, is published twice a month. Since
Sadat said.
Putting the blame on Arabs and
Moslems, Sadat said:
“The plight of Jerusalem did not begin
today. Israel covered a long distance in
implementing its plans and schemes, by
exploiting the negative attitude of Arabs
and Moslems, who contented themselves
with screaming and wailing instead of
taking action.”
Sadat also cited the silence of Arabs
and Moslems regarding the actions of
Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as
evidence of the crisis.
“How can those who failed to protect
our religion be entrusted with the fate of
The Cabinet took the unusual step of
ordering the full minutes of its
deliberations on the issue forwarded to
Navon “so he gets a first-hand im
pression of the. mood during the
session,” the state radio said.
The radio said the Cabinet approved
Navon’s visit so as not to harm the
“normalization of relations between
Egypt and Israel.” No date for the visit
has been set.
Government sources said Sadat’s
letter to Begin on Friday appeared to
rule out immediate resumption of the
autonomy talks. They said they expected
the freeze to last until after the U.S.
presidential elections, or - even after
possible national elections in Israel nUxt
spring.
Sadat proposed an American-
Egyptian-Israeli Camp David-style
Student refunds possible
Dormitory suit certified
By PHILIP GUTIS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Two University alumni recently won
certification of a class action suit
against the University which could
result in payments totaling about
$350,000 to students who lived on campus
during Spring Term 1978.
Judge Harold B. Fink of Potter County
ruled in favor of University alumni
Edward D. Joseph and Jane B. Brennan
and said they could represent the rest of
the 11,626 students who held dorm
contracts during Spring Term.’7B.
“In conclusion, we believe that the
class action proposed is a fair and ef
ficient method of adjudicating the
controversy,” Fink wrote in his opinion
dated August 8.
The case will be tried again to
determine the amount of damages.
University lawyer Mark Faulkner
declined to comment on the judge’s
decision but he said at the trial held June
31 and July 1: “I perceive this class as a
monster. . . I’m prepared to have 11,000
cases adjucated separately.”
The suit stems from the University’s
shortening of Spring Term ’7B by five
days because of a widespread coal strike
in the country and the subsequent loss of
housing and food services.
Brennan and Joseph are seeking a 6.25
percent refund for the five days, an
average of $3O per student.
Fink ruled that all students residing in
the dorms Spring Term ’7B are proper
party plaintiffs unless they submit a
written request to be excluded from the
suit by Oct. 15.
Notification of all possible party
plaintiffs, Fink said, should include a
half-page advertisement in all
Ilegian
our people?” he asked. “How can
Moslems be confident if their‘rulers are
motivated by fear, ignorance and
prejudice?”
Sadat reviewed the peace offensive
that began with his November 1977 visit
to Jerusalem and his address to the
Knesset, emphasizing the necessity of
Israeli withdrawal from all occupied
Arab lands, including East Jerusalem.
“I did not leave a single opportunity
without drawing attention to the priority
we give to the question of Jerusalem and
emphasizing that overall peace is im
possible unless the legal and historic
rights of the Arabs and Molems in
Jerusalem are restored,” Sadat said.
summit.to salvage the peace process,
while accusing Israel of placing ob
stacles in the way of the talks.
The sources said Sadat’s contention
that the recently-enacted Jerusalem bill
and Israel’s settlement activity in oc
cupied Arab territory undermined the
negotiations were “without foundation.”
Begin’s 'reply to Sadat will “say just
that,” one source said.
Israel’s two radio networks said the
Cabinet was highly critical of Sadat’s
letter, with Chief Negotiator Josef Burg
describing it as “rude.”
Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz said
the Egyptian position as spelled out in
Sadat’s letter makes it incumbent on
Israel to halt future withdrawals in the
Sinai until just before the 1982 deadline,
and not before both sides find out “where
they stand.” His proposal was rejected.
widespread labor unrest broke out early in July, the
newspaper has been the chief internal chronicle of
strikes and workers’ protests throughout the nation.
Earlier, in Warsaw, the government announced
formation of a special committee to examine the
demands of the strikers. Vice Premier Tadeusz Pyka,
a relatively obscure official who is believed to be a
close ally of Communist Party chief Edward Gierek,
was named to head the group.
The proposed workers’ manifesto, not yet formally
accepted by the strike committee, challenged the
regime to issue what amounted to a new bill of rights
for workers in the socialist state.
The strike committee demanded the release of all
political prisoners, guarantees of freedom of speech
and of the press and complete publication of all strike
news by the state radio and television.
The main evening news last night included a brief
reference to continuing work stoppages in Gdansk.
However, the newscast aired nationwide avoided the
sharp tones of broadcasts aired in Gdansk.
The demands being considered by the strikers
yesterday also included' a number of proposals
specifically aimed at wiping out special privileges
currently paid to “the security services, the police and
the party aparatus.” Such benefits include higher
publications mailed to alumni and in any
publication distributed primarily to
students of the University. Also, notice
should be posted on any bulletin board
"normally used by the University to
notify current students on campus. ’ ’
The University should
not be able to escape a
class action certification
because of a particular
way in which
the... contracts are
written.'
—Judge Harold B. Fink
The two major arguments Faulkner
presented at the trial to stop the cer
tification are both valid, Fink said
Friday, but they are matters of defense
not matters of class certification.
John F. Brugel, director of the office of
Student Aid, presented one argument
and said 4,000 students received com
plete or partial grants which should
exclude them from a class action.
However, Fink wrote in his opinion
that students “receiving partial aid
would stand in the same shoes for the
purpose of a class as those who received
no aid.
“As to those who received full aid, it is
not the desire of this court that they be
compensated by any reimbursement. . .
for they lost nothing in any event. ’ ’
The other major argument dealt with
the wording of dorm contracts.
Campaign send-off
Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, accompanied by his wife
Nancy, leave Los Angeles International Airport yesterday to begin a four-day
campaign swing across the country. During the week Reagan will speak at the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Chicago and the American Legion
Convention in Philadelphia. See related story on Page 4.
Dorm contracts run from a specified
day to 3 p.m. the day following the last
day of scheduled final exams.
In his discussion of the case, Fink
wrote, "... The University should not
be able to escape a class action cer
tification because of a particular way in
which the. . . contracts are written.”
At the trial he said: “No matter how
you look at it, the Universtiy gained five
days out of it (the delayed term”
On Feb. 23, 1978' the University
changed the term calendar.
Instead of starting Spring Term
March 5 and continuing it to May 23, the
University delayed the term. The new
schedule started March 12 and continued
until May 25, the plaintiffs said.
The plaintiffs contend that under the
original term calendar students were
entitled to 80 days of housing and food
services and under the revised schedule
the University only supplied 75 days.
Brennan originally filed suit with
District Magistrate Clifford Yorks
asking for a $23.49 refund. She lost that
case in May ’7B and, with Joseph,
changed her suit to a class action.
They then appealed York’s decision to
Common Pleas Court.
Today will see considerable clou .iness
with a few showers or thunderstorms
likely at any time. Temperatures will
rise tardily to a high of 70. Tonight will
be muggy but mild with a low of 64.
Tomorrow will bring a few scattered late
afternoon thundershowers, but there will
be enough sunshine to kick the afternoon
temperatures toward a humid high of 84.
Wednesday will be hazy and hot with a
high of 87 degrees.
Monday, August 18,1980
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family allowances and special shops that stock food
and other products not normally available to all.
The strike committee, known by its initials in Polish
as MKS, said it intended to remain in operation in the
future as the nucleus of a free trade union movement in
Gdansk, with the aim of replacing the current Com
munist Party-controlled union system!
The joint strike committee represents 24 separate
shipyards, factories, trolley garages and other
workshops, and said they would stand together under
an all-for-one rule none of the strikers would agree to
return to work until every dispute was settled.
The entire Gdansk region the three-city urban
swath of Gdynia, Sopot and Gdansk, ah area of about
700,000 people in the center of Poland’s northern Baltic
coast—was paralyzed by the walkouts.
, All shipyards were shut down. All factories
associated with the shipyards, from air-conditioning
plants to those producing electrical equipment, were
either closed or occupied by workers.
All public transport in the region was idle, with bus
and trolley drivers and engineers from the electrified
suburban trains joining the strikes.
The region’s oil refinery also was shut down and
strike leaders estimated supplies of gasoline around
Gdansk would begin running out today.
A damp adieu
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