Politburo condemns Solidarity By W, JOSEPH CAMPBELL Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland's Communist Party . Politburo yesterday condemned "extremist forces" for fermenting strikes and other unrest and impeding restoration of social peace in the troubled nation. The army newspaper charged that Western spies are in contact with Solidarity, and the Soviet news agency said the independent labor federation uses terrorism to force its will on Polish workers. The 15-member ruling Politiburo said that "strikes and conflicts, initiated and fanned by extremist forces . . . do harm to the (Soviet bloc) alliance and . . . constitute a blatant contradiction of an accord," the Polish news agency PAP reported! Referring to persistent labor strikes, the Politburo said such "actions hit at the stability of the socialist state, and its economy, and deepen the crisis;" PAP said. But the. Politburo also gave its approval to talks between representatives of the government and Solidarity, saying, "The formula of a front of national accord should be subjected to further consultations with all interested social forces." Solidarity said it wanted the talks to begin Friday. New labor unrest was reported in various.parts of the country. The army newspaper Zolnierz • Wolnosci said Western intelligence Reagon - ..-oipc.uos . o . ..,.no.c.iga:e . .War By B. GREGORY NQKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — . President Reagan said yesterday there is "a possibility" nuclear war dould be • confined to Europe, but said he didn't know whether a nuclear shot aimed atwareing`the Soviets is a NATO • option. • . . . • There was no hint of retreat in his news conference from a statement Reagan made to a group of editors recently about the possiblity of a limited nuclear war in Europe, which set . off a storm of protest iii Europe; • "I endorse only what I said; it was offered as a . possibility and I think you'd have to still say that that possibility . could take place," Reagan said. • • He said he had told the editors, "I could see where both sides could still be deterred from going into the exchange of strategic weapons if there had been battlefield weapons, troop to troop, exchange there," Reagan said, referring to Europe.. • • The preiident agairi praised one part of a Saudi Arabian. Middle East peace plan he said would recognize Israel's right to exist Past U.S. statements of praise for the Saudi plan have upset Israel.' .... ~ . , • Cost of shuttle - postponement large CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The $1.5 to $2 million figure, he said, caused the scrub. The postponement of last week's is a preliminary estimate of costs At liftoff, the billion-dollar shuttle is flight of the space shuttle Columbia incurred solely because of the delay. loaded with more than a half-million cost $1.5 to $2 million, the National Those costs include replenishing the gallons of liquid hydrogen, liquid- Aeronautics and Space expensive launch propellants, oxygen and other fuels, Administration estimated yesterday. additional overtime paid to launch Just keeping the tank full, while "It is difficult to provide an and mission support contractors, waiting for launch, uses 80,000 gallons estimate in which we would have a reimbursement to the Department of of hydrogen at a cost of 62 cents a high level of confidence," said Tom Defense for launch and landing gallon —nearly $50,000. More is lost in Newman, acting NASA comptroller in support and the expenses involved in draining the tank, which had t 2 be Washington. fixing the hydraulic problem that done last week. . i ps u stu d ies l owa s tate ca l en d ar . switc h ~ By SCOTT FRITSCHE him." _ summer session the way we are trying to do," they might have difficulty with it, but they use . Daily Collegian Staff Writer University Park can expect the same thing, Dungan said. "They have no plans for what we some of these expanded periods at the end of the One of the theoretical benefits of a semester Dungan said.• call the 'stand alone' summer session. In fact, I day and even Saturday morning to offer some calendar is a decreased stress level because ' Penn State students may well want to follow . got the impression that they were sort of de- laboratories that ran for two or three periods. instructors are able to teach at a more leisurely ' the example set by the students at lowa State emphasizing a summer session." pace than what is possible undera term ' and aceelerate their classes so they graduate . By emphasizing the summer session, the between 4 and 6 "He mentioned specifically laboratories which using the time calendar. But this does not seem to be the case at before the semester change takes effect, 'IMt ' Standing Summer Session 'Committee is talking .p.m. p. lowa State University, which just changed to a council members said it is too early for students about changes in individual colleges to have seemed to work all right," he said. semester calendar; Penn State Calendar • *to really care about semesters yet. ' more programs available to particular groups of . The budgeting fora summer session at lowa Conversion Council member James Dungan "One thing We did learn at lowa State is that it students in order to increase the program • State is similar to that of Penn State and is said. .• . . is probably too soon ( for student reaction)," offerings, Dungan said. traditionally within the individual departments And Dungan, who visited lowa State with • Bartoo said. "Students are going to worry about - University President John W. Oswald has because lowa State has some of its faculty on Council Ciiairman James Bartoo, said, students it when they see hovir it impacts specifically on approved an eight-week summer session that ' annual contracts, Bartoo said. and administrators at that school are wondering . them." . . , carries the same semestercredits as the regular . - • . . lowa State had about the same number of why, that aspect of the conversion has not "In the summer of '81, " Dungan said, "(lowa semesters Carry. Classes will be 55-minutes long . occurred successfully. • • State) had what they called 'super summer' with 15 minutes between classes. committees . formed to help with the transition - from quarters to semesters as University Park "They think the faculty has not completely . where they, very consciously, offered more "(lowa State) runs a.50-minute class period sloived down and they are rushing through the ' coursesthan they normally do, to provide a with 10 minutes between classes," Dungan said. has now, Dungan said. The University has the semester as though it were a quarter," he said. transition: TheY also found that some fraction of "The campus is not as big as this one, but it's not Calendar Conversion Committee and the 'Standing Summer Session Committee ,: among Dungan and Bartoo went to lowa State at the the students accelerated their programs to small. They put the responsibility on the student. other committees, to help the University handle end.of October to "pick their brains" on • complete their degrees, before the calendar If you•schedule something that you can't get to, the transition. transition problems that Were encountered this change took effect."' . that's your problem, not theirs." • . . • fall when the school changed from the term The students who were accelerating their • lowa State still operates on a "period" day "They developed what they called `STIC ' calendar it had used for 60 years to the semester programs were those who perhaps would have schedule that is nine periods long and starts at Semester Transition Information Committee, calendar. , planned to finish their degree programs at the 7:30 a.m., Bartoo said. . and those were the primary committees that "Some faculty, according to the students, are end of the first semester, Dungan said. One of the problems that the Conversion they used," Dungan said. going to the other extreme and are assuming lowa State's summer session was the same Council has encountered is that of trying to that they have so much time in the semester that during the term calendar as the University's schedule laboratory time for the College of "We might want to consider something similar not much is happening in the class," Dungan summer session, Dungan said. Penn State's Science and other majors that require extended to their STIC committee because what it had was said. "The student is getting frustrated because Conversion Council is proposing to make a lab time of two and three hours, Dungan said. a representative from each college," he said. not much is going on and he is getting the serious effort to increase what is offered by the "(lowa State) found very little problem with "So you had a channel to get information directly sneaking suspicion that in the last two weeks of University during the summer, Dungan said. that," Bartoo said. "I talked to the assistant into the college. the semester, the instructor is going to dump on "(lowa State) is not going to emphasize the dean of engineering and he said that they thought Please see lOWA, Page 4. the daily services, operating from behind many covers, are lending "broad material and political support to the opposition and extremist groups which claim to be ready for the takeover of power in Poland." Alleged espionage activities include "developing contacts" within Solidarity, with Polish intellectuals and cultural workers, and "strengthening contacts with Polish journalists," the newspaper reported. The article carried the headline, "They Penetrate, They Penetrate." 'Espionage penetration in Poland is carried out by military attaches of NATO countries' embassies-...' —Poland's army newspaper Zolnierz The paper alleged that "espionage penetration in Poland is carried out by military attaches of NATO countries' embassies . . ." The article said Western • "intelligence" operatives working under diplomatic cover "have not only increased the frequency of their contacts and meetings with (Polish) people . . . They ., also deal in recruiting Polish citizens for espionage." In MoscaW, the official Tass news agency quoted a SoViet reporter as Regarding conflicting statements by key members of his Cabinet over whether a. nuclear warning shot is part of NATO's European strategy in a conflict with the Soviets," Reagan said, "There seems to be some confusion' as to whether oat is still a part of NATO strategy or not, and so Ear_ ISre hail no answer to that." , Secretary of*State Alexander M. Haig Jr. told the Senate. -last Wednesday that NATO had such a' "contingency plan," but Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger denied the, next day that such a plan existed. , The White House issued a statement saying both were right. • With respect to a war in Europe, Reagan said he had been discussing a hyPothetical situation with the editor. "I can't say that it was misunderstood," he said of his comment. ,But he said it caused concern only when it was taken out of the context of a discussion "of the whole strategic concept" for U.S. and allied defense. • Reagan said there' is reason to wonder whether "any nation" faced with defeat would "take that defeat without turning to the ultimate weapon." • one • ian saying Solidarity employs terrorism and is "making short order of those who disobey." Tass said Arkady Sakhnin, correspondent in Warsaw for the Soviet journal Literary Gazette "was at a number of enterprises where he could familiarize himself with Solidarity terrorist actions." Tass said his report alleged that Solidarity uses "order enforcement ' groups" patterned after the leftist youth brigades which ran rampant during China's chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Meanwhile, PAP said Poles staged celebrations yesterday, the eve of the nation's unofficial independence day, in Warsaw, Poznan and Krakow. Nov. 11 marks the revival of the Polish state in 1918, an anniversary not recognized by the Communist government. Poland's widest regional strike in 15 months, which has idled more than 150,000 workers in western Zielona Gora province, was in its 20th day Reagan also denied there is any disarray among his foreign policy advisers. yesterday and no bargaining was scheduled Provincial authorities on Monday . refused to ratify a tentative accord, and Solidarity leaders in Zielona Gora vowed to press their demands for firing authorities who sacked, then reinstated, a Solidarity farm official. More than 2,500 coal miners were in the 13th day of a strike in southwestern Sosnowiec. The dispute began over a chemical-throwing incident at a union rally in which 60 people were hospitalized. A fresh labor dispute kept newspapers from stands in Wroclaw, Walbrzych, Legnica and Zielona Gora provinces, the official PAP news, agency reported. Drivers of the 380 taxis in Wloclawek, 85 miles northwest of • Warsaw, announced plans to block the industrial city's main thoroughfare beginning this afternoon to press demarlds for priority gasoline purchases and a rollback of a one gallon reduction in their daily gasoline quotas. "We have chosen rush hour to start this action because we want to deliver a well-aimed blow;" said Marian Nowicki, Solidarity leader in the city Students at an engineering school in Radom, who have staged a 16-day sit in to protest the disputed election of a new rector, claimed support from more than 35 other schools of higher learning, the goverment press agency Interpress reported. Fun and Games Five-year-old Louis Quaranta contemplates two common college obsessions pizza and video games at Vesuvio Pizzeria, 128 E. College Ave., where his dad works. 20° Wednesday Nov. 11, 1981 Vol. 82, No. 79 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 . Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University State Senate passes bill to restrict look-alike' drugs By RON WATERS Daily Collegian Staff Writer A bill restricting "look-alike" drugs passed in the state Senate by a unanimous vote yesterday after a fight to amend the bill with a criminal intent clause failed. The bill was sponsored by Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre County. The amendment, proposed by Sen. Michael A. O'Pake, D-Berks County, would have defined clearly when possessing caffeine-based drugs resembling controlled substances was• motivated by criminal intent, O'Pake said. "We are talking about a criminal statute with very serious penalties five years in jail. And the courts in Pennsylvania have consistently held that you have to clearly define the criminal intent, otherwise they will either strike the whole law or lesson the effects," he said. The amendment failed 25-23 late yesterday afternoon in a vote along party lines, said Rick Santorum, an aide to Corman. "In our opinion," Santorum said, the defeated amendment "would broaden the scope of the law to the point where it would make it unenforceable." However, he said support for a different criminal intent amendment while the bill is before the House of Representatives has not been ruled out. The bill would make the manufacuture or sale of caffeine based gelatin capsules that have the appearance of controlled substances a felony offense punishable by a 5- year prison term and a $lO,OOO fine. The bill now goes before the House Health and Welfare committee and may become law before the end of the year, Santorum said. Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R- Centre County, said he will actively promote the bill in the House by lobbying other representatives through explaining the bill and its purpose. "I think the bill is excellent, it's badly needed and I think Sen. Cormaan ought to be commended for his inititive in steering it through the Senate," Cunningham said. . Cunningham said he had to confer with Corman before deciding whether he would support a criminal intent ammendment. O'Pake, who introduced his own bill to control the drug-look alike industry earlier this year, said he will work to see the criminal intent amendment inserted in the House. "I am sure that any law we pass is going to be challenged in court by the lawyers for this industry so we had better pass a law that really solves the problem instead of looking like it solves the problem," O'Pake said. inside • While both the state and the nation have slipped into at least a slight recession, the economy of the Centre Region has not changed very much in the last six months • President Reagan said yester day the nation faces "hard times for the next few months" but vowed to stand fast on his economic program and veto any bill that exceeds his budget Page 9 • Lady Lion field hockey players Candy Finn and Brenda Stauffer have been named Mitchell and Ness All-AMericans Page 10 weather Mostly cloudy this morning then becoming partly sunny by the af ternoon. High temperatures will be . near 48 degrees. Mostly clear and cold tonight with low temperatures around 27 degrees. Becoming mostly cloudy tomorrow with high temperatures in the mid 40s. —by Mark Stunder Page 5
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