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.'
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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.
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ps u stu d ies l owa s tate ca l en d ar . switc h
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By SCOTT FRITSCHE him." _ summer session the way we are trying to do," they might have difficulty with it, but they use
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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.
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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
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