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."
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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.
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. :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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Screams heard by site of Wood drowning
By KATHY HORAK
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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
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her. The whole situation was dismissed when we heard
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She said she could not see anyone and "I was in sort of
a sleepy state, so I wasn't listening that carefully."
"Despite the fact there was a woman calling for help
the appearance was one not urgent," said Ms. Wayne.
"She seemed well within reach of several boats if not
right on top of her own. And there were so many boats in
the isthmus it didn't seem to be an emergency situa
tion."
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. California's standard for intoxication is
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By FRED BAYLES 7,000-member group, based in Wa-
Associated Press Writer tertown, is opposed to the continuing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) threat of nuclear war.
Amid growing concern over the pos- Dr. Herbert L. Abrams, a profes
sibility of "the final epidemic," sor of radiology, said the lecture
some students' at Harvard Medical course would focus on what medical
School may soon be taking a new problems surviving physicians
course: "The Health Aspects of Nu- would face following a nuclear war.
clear War." They include the effects of radia-
The proposed elective course is tion on the body's immune system
part of a growing movement within and the expected epidemics of ty
the Harvard medical community to phoid and other diseases that would
protest the escalating nuclear arms follow the destruction of health and
race. The school's curriculum com- sanitation facilities.
mittee will vote on the proposal Professors will also discuss the
Monday, and if approved, the course long-term effects of radiation, in
would begin next semester. eluding increased cases of leukemia
"This is a sign of the growing and other cancers.
awareness that we are facing the At the end of the course, the in
final epidemic nuclear war," said structors would discuss methods of
James F. Muller, an assistant pro- preventing a nuclear holocaust. Stu
fessor of medicine and one of four dents would be required to take a
faculty members who proposed the final examination or write an essay.
course. Abrams believes this is the first
"One of the problems is that is it's such course to be proposed for a
too horrible to imagine," he said. medical school.
"One can imagine one burned child, "Doctors don't know that much
or perhaps a school of burned chil- about the effects of nuclear war," he
dren, but who can imagine more said. "They know this can kill, but
than 100,000 burned children?" not many have been exposed to
The four are members of Physi- information about things like blast
cians for Social Responsibility. The and burn injuries."
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