Barricaded MOVE members battle prison guards By LEE LINDER Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) Armed with sharpened sticks and using mattresses as shields, 10 members of the back-to-nature sect known as MOVE battled guards at the city's Holmesburg Prison yesterday, injuring 24 people before order was restored, authorities said. Of the injured, City Prisons Superintendent David Owens Jr. said one guard and two MOVE members were seriously hurt, but he gave no details. Owens said the MOVE members had barricaded themselves in an 11-by-17 foot cell Tuesday morning, stocked it with food and refused to leave. "There was no security problem, and we took no immediate action," Owens told a news conference. "We kept trying to coax them out." state/nation/World Elderly charge conference rigged By BETTY ANNE WILLIAMS Associated Press Writer - WASHINGTON (AP) The White House Con ference on Aging ended yesterday with near unanimous adoption of nearly 600 recommenda tions despite an undercurrent of complaints that pro -administration forces had rigged key com mittees. • . :By the end of the four-day meeting, even 81- year-old Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., an early critic, was praising the outcome. • :Pepper ,called the conference's Social Security proposals "wonderful recommendations : " :"Democracy has a way of rising to its proper height," he said. "There may have been some influence in the early days that I didn't like, but it alI sort of came out in the wash. . . . These reports are good reports on the whole. They deserve, on trie whole, implementation." Among the recommendations: maintaining So cial Security benefits at present levels, restoring the minimum Social Security benefit, approval of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, expan sion of Medicaid and Medicare benefits, and in tituting tax credits for home care for the elderly. President Reagan saluted the delegates for "Unselfish contributions and for making the 1981 conference a productive, memorable event." `Their goal has not necessarily, been to reach dilanimous agreement on every issue, but rather to:share diverse views and arrive at recommen dations for the common good," he said. Conference critics who declined to be identified produced what they said were documents ob tained from conference files on a detailed plan to Union says reconciliation wrecked Solidarity threatens to strike By THOMAS W. NETTER Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) Solidarity declared yester daythat Polish authorities wrecked chances for recon ciliation by using force to end a firefighter cadets' protest. The union threatened an •unlimited general strike if the government tries to enact and enforce a proposed strike ban. "The developments of the past weeks prove that by opting for violence the government has jettisoned the possibility of dialogue with society," the independent union's leaders said during a meeting in Radom, a city in central Poland. The statement blamed the government for ignoring a new law giving greater autonomy to factory workers, and attacked the Communist Party's call in the Sejm, Poland's parliament, to give the government "extraor dinary" powers to end strikes. "The ushering in of the so-called extraordinary mea sures . . . is tantamount to an attempt at liquidating civil and employee rights won in 1980," the statement said. In a second communique issued at the end of the meeting, the union leaders said that if the government tries to turn back the clock on reforms, the 9'/z million Solidarity members will walk off the job and stay off. "If there are bans on gathering or a ban on strikes, the union will proclaim a 24-hour national protest strike," the communique said. "If the government uses these extraordinary measures, all chapters and all work jet"'• '144 0 ''... ' ..: : :.:;• 1..:. . ~ - , , 0, .V ... • . ..:. ::. .•. • . , - • 4 . 4 ^ '4 1, I, t't r•!..1 * : ~'~ y.. • • A.•<:: ' , • •.,It..* Corsican Burials ~ ti _ ~ ~ .~~ ;,., ~. :.,;~ '. Workmen at Ajaccio, Corsica, prepare coffins yesterday for the 180 victims killed Tuesday in a DC-9 plane crash The superintendent said that yesterday morning, a correc tions officer "was talking to them, trying to get them out of the cell, and his arm was grabbed, and they took away his keys." Owens said the keys were then passed out to an inmate in the corridor, who tried to open the cell but was stopped by guards. "Help was summoned, and then a decision was made to enter the cell and remove the 10 individuals," Owens said. "When the staff went in, the residents (MOVE members) fought with Sharpened sticks and used mattresses for shields. At last count, we had 16 correctional officers who were injured and eight MOVE members, and they were taken to three area hosptials." Owens declined to identify the hospitals "for security rea sons." No firearms were used during the fight. Cells at Holmesburg, which houses approximately 800 in mates, usually hold two prisoners. stack key panels, pinpoint "adversaries" of the Reagan administration and orchestrate commit lee votes through a system of committee "whips." Some were dubbing it, "Gray Scam" and "Eldergate." David Newhall 111, chief of staff for Health and Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schweiker, denied that the Reagan administration had ma nipulated committee assignments or tried to stage-manage the conference. But Jack Ossofsky, chairman of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, called alleged attempts to pack committees "just unbelievable, absolutely a terrible disgrace" and demanded an investigation by the attorney general. The conference's final session, in which the work of 14 subject committees was.adopted, was disrupted at the start by protests from several hundred delegates. Amid shouts of "change the rules," Barbara Garcia of Los Angeles sought the floor to amend the rules to allow votes•on each of 14 committee reports. But conference chairman Constance D. Armitage of South Carolina de clared her out of order and refused to recognize her. Sergeants-at-arms took a bull horn from Rose Kryzak, an 81-year-old New York delegate, and there were a few shouts of protest as delegates reacted to individual recommendations. But after three hours of hearing nearly 60 pages of recommendations read aloud, the delegates gave their approval overwhelmingly". There were only a few dozen shouts of "no" among the 2,300 delegates. The committees took conflicting stands on some issues, including Social Security policy. But there forces should immediately stage a general, unlimited strike." There was no immediate reaction from the govern ment to the union leadership's statements, but the state labor newspaper Glow Pracy seemed to warn the union not to declare a general strike. "The situation is inflammable and dangerous as never before," the paper said. "The light-heartedness and irresponsible easiness with which every such con flict develops and spreads must arouse the highest anxiety and deep concern." The raid on the firefighters' academy was an appar ent effort by the authorities to demonstrate a new, get tough attitude in the face of Communist demands for an end to strikes crippling Poland since Solidarity was formed 16 months ago as the first union free- of party control in the Soviet bloc. In Moscow, the official news agency Tass said the cadets fell for political slogans of "provocateurs." The Kremlin has frequently criticized Solidarity as an anti- Communist front. Quoting a speech by conservative Polish Politburo member Stefan Olszowski, Tass said officials "decided to purge the college and this has been done. The authorities manifested its power in this case." The assault by 500 commandos backed by several thousand police and army troops was the biggest show of force in Poland's labor crisis, and came amid an apparent freeze in talks over a union-government, front of understanding. was consensus on trying to protect present bene fits for elderly and keep the'sime level of protec tion for the future. The key Social Security committee voted against using general revenues to pay for the system although several other panels endorsed the idea, which President Reagan has strongly opposed. Several panels voted to restore the minimum Social Security benefit, which Congress appears determined to do despite originally adopting Reagan's recommendation to end it. Several also endorsed removing or liberalizing the $5,500-a -year limit on how much people aged 65 to 71 can earn without losing Social Security. The committee that considered problems of older women voted to establish national health insurance, liberalize Medicaid and Medicare, begin payments for home health care, guarantee women the right to share and inherit, their hus band's pensions, and increase Supplementary Security Income' benefits to 10 percent of the national poverty standard. SSI goes to the aged, blind and disabled. The panel also issued an endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment. The committee on health. care and services adopted similar recommendations on health is sues, including expanding services covered by Medicare and Medicaid and providing tax credits for home care of the elderly. But it voted to oppose national health insurance. The health panel endorsed moves toward add ing competition to the health care system. It also called for more education for health professionals and more research on the aging process. Although there were no injuries, Solidarity chapters across Poland reacted angrily to the raid, declaring strike alerts in Warsaw and Gdansk and demanding tough action from national leaders. A Solidarity spokesman in Warsaw, where 34 union ists seized during the raid were released without Charges, said, "People are getting upset because they can see we're being quite often outmaneuvered." The comment drew support from the Solidarity chap ter in Plock, already on strike alert over local issues, which said in a statement that the raid "is the last signal for the union to start an uncompromising struggle." The raid ended a week-long sit-in by about 320 cadets demanding % they be given civilian status by the Interior Ministry, and that their school be included in a new academic reform bill that limits police access to cam puses and gives students broader power to elect admin istrators. Strikes by 100,000 students demanding the bill be passed, and by several hundred farmers demanding changes in agricultural policies and guarantees of private land ownership have been going on for weeks. In one long-standing dispute, farmers at the Lubogora farm in western Zielona Gora province prepared for the first election of a farm manager at a state-owned collective farm, Solidarity said. The firing of a Solidarity member at . the farm last month sparked a major, province-wide strike by more than 100,000 workers that lasted for nearly three weeks. =EI Owens said that eight MOVE members had joined two others in their cell "because six of them were to be transferred to the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (in Luzerne County in northeastern Pennsylvania)." MOVE members at Holmesburg have been getting special privileges, including regular meetings with female MOVE members held in the adjoining House of Detention, according to a Common Pleas court investigator who did not want to be identified. ' "They're different than the other crooks here," he said. "The problems that they cause is because they offend other prison ers. They stink. Not bathing is part of their beliefs. And they also eat a lot of garlic and wear it, which doesn't help things either." Jeanne Tereskun, spokeswoman at Frankford-Torresdale Hospital, said that a guard and a MOVE priSoner were being treated there. NI III y ea A 13q , ' MeMbers of the Gray Panthers Senior Citizens group rallied yesterday outside the White House to protest the Reagan Administration's economic policies. WASHINGTON (AP) —The NBC, The three networks had formally ABC and CBS broadcasting net- requested last year that the tapes, works were told by a federal judge made secretly by FBI investigators, yesterday they could play portions be turned over by the court. of video and audio tapes played during the Abscam- bribery trial of Jenrette, a South Carolina Demo former U.S. Rep. John W. Jenrette. crat, was convicted Oct. 7, 1980, of U.S. District Judge John Garrett accepting a bribe from an FBI un- Penn, while allowing the networks to dercover agent. Penn is considering copy the tapes, said those tapes Jenrette's motions to set aside the containing references to innocent verdict on grounds the government third persons would not be made violated the ex-congressman's available. rights during the investigation. Jen- Penn gave the networks 10 days to retie was defeated in a bid for re object to the automatic deletions. election after his conviction. HARRISBURG • (AP) Pennsyl-' and said it would rule on the legality vania will begin trimming welfare of Lord's order within several days. aid to families with children on Dec. Meanwhile, Douglas Dye, attor . 12, following a federal appeals court ney for Corrimunity Legal . Services ruling that the state can go ahead of Philadelphia, said he filed a peti /with new Reagan administration tion yesterday for a rehearing by the guidelines. . . entire nine-member court. Bob Minck, spokesman for the The Welfare Department had ar state Welfare Department, said offi- gued that any delay in making the cials decided yesterday that the changes would cost the state mil reductions will be made in checks lions of dollars because of lower mailed as of that date. federal contributions. The federal Of the 630,000 people in the Aid to government, which ordered the cuts, Families with Dependent . Children pays 58 percent of AFDC costs. program, 63,000 will lose all of their Judge Arlin Adams, speaking for aid and 44,000 people a portion, the appellate panel, said the court Minck said. was concerned about the poor people State welfare officials had planned involved. to make the changes Tuesday, but The suit against the cuts was filed were blocked by U.S. District Court by the Philadelphia Citizens in Ac- Judge Joseph Lord 111. In issuing an tion and the Philadelphia Welfare injunction, he said new federal regu- Rights Organization. They argued lations on the aid program had been that the government violated the issued too quickly and without suffi- federal Administrative Procedures cient notice. Act by not allowing 30 days between However, a three-judge panel of the time the new regulations were the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals published on Sept. 21 and when they stayed the injunction Wednesday went into effect: Oct. 1. Driver dampens holiday spirit SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Pas- "In just a few minutes, practically sengers on a city bus say their driver everybody aboard was singing pulled over to the side of the road along," one witness, who asked not and refused to continue his route to be identified, told the San Francis until they stopped singing "Jingle co Chronicle. "It was really very Bells." moving." The problem began during rush , hour Wednesday night when a man The bus, however, was not. The boarded a Municipal Transit trolley driver pulled it to the side of the road coach, belting out the' popular and refused to continue until the Christmas tune as his paid his fare. spontaneous caroling stopped. But The driver warned him .to shut up for half an hour, the impromptu or get off, earning a round of jeers musicale continued. and boos from the rest of the passen- Finally, the passengers began gers, who then began singing the leaving the .bus and the driver re song themselves. sumed his route a few minutes later. She identified the security guard as Ronnie Bowdan, 30, of Philadelphia, who she said was being X-rayed and was in stable condition. She said the MOVE member, Edward Africa, : also was in X-ray; but had suffered no visible wounds. At Jeanes Hospifal, spokeswoman Carol Landis said MOVE member Phil Africa had been brought to the emergency room suffering lacerations and a possible fractured arm. Most members of MOVE have taken the surname. Africa. "He is being treated to the extent he is allowing us to treat him," she said. "He claims to be 1 year old. He will not be admitted. The highway patrol is going to take him someplace." Over the past several years, members of MOVE, who once inhabited a ramshackle, rat-infested house in the city, have been sentenced to prison following trials stemming from a 1978 shootout with police. One police officer died in that gun battle and there were numerous injuries. I _....p . A ' pA d At A .. i .,? 1) (-) I , t THE WH'hif L •f-PAY 1 ON RE/AG A • ' ---- i— .;:,401:13, , news briefs TV networks can broadcast Abscam tapes, judge says State to begin trimming aid The Daily Collegian Friday, Dec. 4 f -411 * '' i 4 4 r AP Laserphoto Screams heard by site of Wood drowning By KATHY HORAK I. Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) New questions were raised yesterday about the drowning of Natalie Wood as a woman who was near the actress' yacht reported she heard a female voice screaming for help and then heard someone say, "We're coming to get you." Marilyn Wayne, who was aboard the yacht Capricorn off Santa Catalina Island Saturday night, said she had told authorities earlier this week that she heard a woman's cries at 11:45 p.m: Saturday. She said the cries, which lasted until 12:10 a.m. Sunday, came from the direction of Miss Wood's 60-foot yacht Splendour, where the actress was spending the weekend with actor Robert Wagner, her husband, and Christopher Walken, her co-star in an unfinished movie. Her body was found after dawn Sunday. . The Splendour and the Capricorn were moored about 150 feet apart in Isthmus Cove on the island's north side, Harbor Master Doug Oudin said Thursday. Only one other boat . was nearby, although Oudin said "75 or 80" were moored in the cove Saturday night. Ms. Wayne, 38, a commodities broker for Shearson American Express in Beverly Hills, said she woke up at the sound of screams. Ms. Wayne said she thought the woman might have been attending a loud party on a nearby sailboat, and she and her friend, whom she didn't identify, went back s to sleep when they heard someone respond. "We figured she was with the party I was awakened by it later that night. I thought maybe she figured it was time to go back to the party," she said. "The reasoning was the guys at the party weren't in any hprry to go get her. The whole situation was dismissed when we heard someone say, 'We're corning over to get you."' St. Paul's United Methodist Church 250 East College Ave., State College, PA 16801 Sunday Worship —*9:ls & 10:45 a.m: Students/Young Adults Class —:10:30 a.m • Senior Choir Christmas Choral Program Don't forget your ID! ''''‘ll ll ° 7-11iiii-NIW"-Ir'' I I I I Free extra thick crust! .1 Free extra thick crust! I Free extra thick crust 0 Free extra thick crust p m on any 12" pizza. (Save ci g lon any 16". pizza. (Save in 0 1 .85). One coupon per ,z 4 I $1.251). 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Los Angeles County Lifeguard Curt Craig said he happened onto the Capricorn while looking for Miss Wood on Sunday and was told of the screams. Craig said the screams "didn't seem relevant at the time. We were just looking for a person, so it didn't seem all that important." Investigators refused comment yesterday on Ms. Wayne's report. "The investigation is continuing and we have no comment," sheriff's Lt. Frank Salerno said. Assistant County Coroner Richard Wilson said the coroner's • office learned of the reported screams through news accounts yesterday and doubted they would affect the findings of death by accidental drown ing with "no evidence of foul play." Coroner Thomas Noguchi had suggested Monday that Miss Wood might not have been able to call for help if her mouth filled with water. "The screams in themselves would not have any direct bearing on our findings," Wilson said. "If they did occur it would substantiate our findings that she fell in the water and drowned." Noguchi said Miss Wood slipped and hit her head while trying to board a dinghy tied to the Splendour. Wagner and Walken had quarreled, the coroner said. However, sheriff's homicide Detective Roy Hamilton said officials talked to both men and there was no indication there had been any argument. Her body was found floating in the cove at 7:45 a.m. Sunday. She was buried Wednesday at Westwood Me morial Park after a private Russian Orthodox service. Miss. Wood's will, filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court, divided her estate among Wagner and her daughters, Natasha Gregson, 11, and Courtney Brooke Wagner, 7. Wagner was named executor and trustee. Wagner's daughter by a previous marriage, Katha rine, 17, was given one-tenth of the assets. A secretary for attorney William Stinehart Jr. said the full value of the estate had not yet been determined. `Obviously she's worth millions," said the secretary, who asked that her name not be used. The fate of Miss Wood's uncompleted movie, "Brains torm," was still uncertain yesterday. With production on the movie suspended, but with principal photography nearly complete, MGM officials referred all calls to company attorney, Frahk Rothman. Rothman, howev er, was in meetings, according to an aide, and was not immediately available for comment. On Wednesday, an MGM official had said that two "crucial" scenes involving Miss Wood had not been filmed, and Lloyds of London reported Thursday it had been advised by MGM that an insurance claim would be filed for "Brainstorm" because of the actress' death. The movie reportedly was budgeted at $l2 million. Meanwhile, Wilson said toxicology tests showed the 43-year-old actress had "insignificant amounts" of the pain killer Darvon, caffeine and anti-motion sickness drugs in her system the night of her death. Wood had prescriptions for both drugs, he said. Initial autopsy results showed she also had 0.14 percent alcohol in her blood. 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