Polish military regime
squashes opposition
By THOMAS W. NETTER
Associated Press Writer
WARSAW; Poland (AP) The new
martial-law regime tightened its grip
on Poland yesterday, and the shaken
Solidarity movement apparently was
able to mount only scattered strikes to
protest the crackdown that ended its
year-long flirtation with power.
Thousands stopped work at two big
Warsaw factories yesterday,
spokesmen for the union said. JBut
reports from other plants and from one
northern port indicated work was
• proceeding normally.
Yesterday afternoon, the foreign
communications links of The
Associated Press and other Western
news agencies in Warsaw were cut.
Swedish businessmen Magnus A.
Backlund and Ake Dal, returning home
on a ferry from Poland, said they went
to the huge Lenin shipyards in Gdansk,
found the steel gates closed and were
told workers were occupying the yard.
All appeared normal at the ferry’s
home port of Swinoujscie, however.
Warsaw television, monitored in the
West, said security forces broke up one
strike attempt led by'“an irresponsible
group of Solidarity extremists” at the
Soviets tell West to stay out of Poland
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union, in its first official
comment on the imposition of martial law in Poland, said
yesterday it was an internal Polish affair and the West
should stay out of it.
An “authorized” statement by Tass, the official news
agency, renewed charges that the security and
independence of Poland and other Soviet-led Warsaw Pact
nations were threatened by “enemies of independent :
socialist Poland inside the country (who) had the support
of certain”external circles in the West.”
An “authorized statement” reflects highest Kremlin
thinking and is issued by directive of the Soviet leadership.
Moscow-based Western diplomats, closely watching
developments in Poland, described the Tass statement as
low-key and said its tone seemed designed to prevent the
declaration of martial law Sunday from being too closely
associated with the Soviet leadership.
Draft registration will continue, director says
By JOHN SCHLANDER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Justice Department’s recent
suspension of prosecution procedures
against young men who failed to register
for the draft does not mean the
resumption of a draft is less likely, the
acting director of the National
Committee Against Registration and the
Draft said.
“We’re very skeptical that the Reagan
administration is going to abandon its
plans for registration and the draft,”
Stuart Fisk said. “The Reagan
administration realizes a draft is
absolutely essential for the planned
expansion of the military.
“We’re firmly convinced that the
Reagan administration is planning on .
bringing back a draft at some point. It
could be after the 1982 elections.
Anywhere within one to five years, there
will be a draft brought back. It’s just a
question of when it’s most politically
t expedient for Reagan to push the issue.”
The majority of the members of the
Defense Military Manpower Task Force,
chaired by Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger, support'continuing
registration, Fisk said. <
The hold on prosecutions came the day
■ before several U.S. attorneys were
* preparing to seek some indictments
Cluck says financial aid protest has just begun
By ANNE CONNERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The 150 calls that University students made to
U.S. legislators last week is only the first battle in
the quest to prevent further cutbacks in financial
aid, Undergraduate Student Government
President Bill Cluck told the USG Senate last
night.
“What happened Thursday was nothing
compared to what’s going to happen in January,”
he said. “In January, we believe (Director of the
Office of Management and Budget David)
Stockman or (President) Reagan will say the
deficit is getting too large we need more cuts.”
Last Thursday the U.S. House of
Representatives passed a 4 percent across-the
board cut in domestic programs including
student aid. The cuts represented a $4 billion cut in
the federal budget and were passed 219-197.
Cluck said this reduction could be just the
beginning of the cuts in store for higher education.
steel mill in the' southern city of
Katowice.
It said'about a dozen people were
arrested, and the authorities had been
supported by “the dignified civic
attitude of the workforce.”
A later report from Warsaw radio,
also monitored in the West, said that
between 20 and 50 people were arrested
at the Katowice steel mill.
'The radio also said two high-ranking
Solidarity leaders were arrested in
Lodz, Poland’s second-largest city,
after speaking to a large crowd near the
local union headquarters and
scattering, leaflets from the windows,,
“their aim being to weaken Poland’s
defense readiness. ”
the radio said Andrzej Slowic, the
local chapter chairman, and Jerzy
Kropiwnicki, deputy chairman, would
be prosecuted in summary criminal
proceedings under Sunday’s martial
law decree. Besides their chapter posts,
both men are members of Solidarity’s
National Commission, the radio said.
Polish television film broadcast by a
West German network last night
showed public transport functioning in
Warsaw and people going to work over
snow-covered streets.
before grand juries.
Although more than 800,000 men have
failed to register, only 161 cases now are
being prepared for prosecution, Fisk
said.
Generally, these 161 people specifically
stated their refusal to register, Fisk said.
The Selective Service said 6.5 million
men have registered since registration
resumed in July 1980.
Men are legally required to register
within 30 days of their 18th birthday.
Failure to do so could carry a $lO,OOO fine
and five years in prison.
Fisk said, “There’s no real way to
enforce the whole process other than try
to intimidate draft-age people into
registering by prosecuting.
“To a large extent, they stopped the
indictments because of the opposition,
that was building and the forces that
were mobilizing to oppose those
indictments.”
David Landau, American Civil
Liberties Union lawyer, also said he does
not interpret the hold on prosecutions as
a signal that registration will soon end.
“But it does indicate that option will be
seriously considered. And that’s
certainly a major step forward,” Landau
said.
“It’s a significant action certainly
insofar as the young men who were going
While he was in Washington last week to lobby
against student aid cuts, Cluck said he heard
rumors that the following financial aid programs
would be cut:
, • Pell Grants (formerly known as Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants) would be cut
from $2.1 billion or $2.6 billion to $1 billion.
• The Department of Education might be
eliminated and its 1983 budget could be slashed by
50 percent.
• Supplemental Education Opportunity
Grants, National Direct Student Loans and work
study programs could be phased out and replaced
with a single block grant* This step would make it
much easier to cut program funds, Cluck said.
• Graduate students may be prevented from
receiving Guaranteed Student Loans, which would
cut the GSL budget by 30 percent.
Also, the Washington Post reported recently
that the $5OO million block grant Congress
approved this year for several federal education
the
daily
But a commentary on the state-run television last night
praised the steps taken in Poland and said the Polish
communists “have a positive program to pull the country
from the crisis.”
Commentator Alexander Kaverznev went on to say, “I
am convinced that all of us, the Soviet people, support the
Polish comrades. ’’
The commentary painted a grim picture of events in
Poland leading up to Sunday’s declaration of a state of
emergency. It said extremists were preparing to occupy
government buildings and television and radio stations,
were creating armed groups and were preparing bombs.
“They are opposing the socialist unity of the people with
confrontation, with civil war. Now the Polish army is to
prevent this threat,” the commentary said.
The Tass statement, issued nearly 30 hours after martial
law provisions of the Polish constitution were put in force,
said the Soviet people wished Poland “success in solving
the difficult problems” before it.
Mark Heuer, news secretary for U.S.
Rep. William F. Clinger, R-central Pa.,
said Clinger told him the suspension of
prosecutions was “the right move at the
right time.”
“The volunteer concept seems to be
working at the present time,” Heuer
said.
In fact, Clinger said attempts may be
made to further strengthen the volunteer
concept by increasing GI benefits, Heuer
said.
The suspension of prosecutions is
consistent with Reagan’s campaign
“Calm continues to prevail in most of
t|ie country,” according to Polish
television evening news, monitored in
London.
In a report from its Warsaw
correspondent, the official radio of
neighboring Czechoslovakia said,
“Only in some areas is Solidarity trying
to create unrest Supplies and
transport are approximately the same
as in preceding days.”
The Czechoslovakian report said
army and police patrols had been
scaled down to protect only important
roadways and official buildings.
A Polish television report said
authorities had found instructions for
staging acts of subversion, in the
Warsaw area headquarters, of
Solidarity. That building was raided by
police late Saturday.
The instructions that in the event of
government forces attacking factories,
it would be necessary to put up
barricades, start fires, dig up streets
and harass patrols, the report said.
“Every group and individual must
carry out subversion in the enemy’s
rear,” the television report quoted the
purported instructions as saying.
to be indicted. As far as being a turning
point, the only thing I can say about it
clearly indicates the president hasn’t
made a decision.”
Planned military expansion may force
a draft in four or five years, Landau said,
but there is no indication that Reagan
supports a draft in the next two years.
Fisk said stopping registration “would
be a step backwards in. terms of public
relations.”
However, he said, “In terms of
mobilizing, they still have contingent
plans that theoretically would allow
mobilization in a short time.”
The Selective Service recently issued
new mobilization regulations allowing
for quicker registration and induction,
Fisk said.
programs would be cut by 40 percent in January.
Out of the barrage of special interest groups that
bombard Washington around budget time,
students receive the least attention, Cluck said.
“When you put us on a totem pole in regards to
special interests that get the money from the
federal government, students are on the bottom
because they don’t vote,” he said.
Kim Hammond, federal liaison in the USG
(department of political affairs, said the phone-a
thon conducted by USG on Dec. 8, 9 and 10 made
an impact on the legislators she visited while in
Washington last week.
“The people we went down to see knew who we
were,” she said.
Hammond also said the phone-a-thon was
reported in last Thursday’s edition of The New
York Times. v
To keep the pressure on legislators, Cluck said
the USG Executive Council would organize at its
Thursday meeting a master plan to mobilize
About 2,000 demonstrators, calling for
support of the Polish people and the
union “Solidarnosc,” marched through
Berlin last night in protest of the recent
developments in Poland (above). Mean
while, on Sunday night, Polish troops
(right) marched through Warsaw follow
ing a declaration of martial law by the
Polish government.
promise to stop the draft, Heuer said
Registration in the summer of 1980 was
for males born in 1960 and 1961. They
were legally required to fill out a short
registration form at their local post
office.
The process then changed to
registration within 30 days of the male’s
18th birthday.
Corrections
Because of an editing error, it was
incorrectly reported in yesterday’s Daily
Collegian that Chris Hopwood, president
of the Undergraduate Student Govern
ment’s Academic Assembly, is the only
student member of the University’s Cal
endar Conversion Council.
There are two students on the council.
Hopwood is the undergraduate represen
tative; Peter Irvin (graduate-educatio
nal administration) is the graduate
representative.
Because of a photographer’s error, a
student performing a Chinese ribbon
dance at the International Coffeehouse
on Saturday night was incorrectly identi
fied in yesterday’s Daily Collegian. The
student’s name is Chou Hue-Chung
(graduate-geology).
students against further cutbacks in financial aid.
Cluck said part of that plan would be to tell
students they could lose some of their aid money if
the proposed cutbacks were passed.
“I’m still alarmed when I sat at dinner and
asked students if they were on financial aid and
they said, ‘Oh, yeah, my loan’s guaranteed,’ ”
In other business, North Halls Senator Steve
Ripp said there is a “strong possibility” of having
a concert in Beaver Stadium sometime during
Spring Term. Ripp said the concert would
probably be with one or two big name bands.
The senate also passed the following bills:
• It allocated $320.17 to USG’s summer jobs
committee to cover the cost of printing a letter to
be sent to corporations and businesses, asking
them if they want to employ University graduates.
• The senate established a $5O emergency fund
so the USG business manager .could conduct
business if the treasurer is not present to sign
purchase orders.
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Abortion bill may go to voters
By The Associated Press
HARRISBURG (AP) - Senate
leaders said last night they may try to
give Pennsylvania voters a chance to
decide the touchy issue of whether
restrictive abortion legislation should
take effect.
Both Senate President Pro
Tempore Henry Hager and Senate
Republican Leader Robert Jubelirer
said they support the referendum
idea.
“If the bill went to a referendum, I
feel it would be defeated,” Jubelirer
said.
Throughout last night’s session,
Sen. Doyle Corman, R-central Pa.,
scurried about the Senate chamber
trying to get the required 26 votes
needed to suspend the Senate rules so
the House-passed bill could be
amended to permit a referendum
next year.
“Rather than to defeat the bill, I
want to let the people decide the
issue,” said Corman, who opposes the
bill.
Corman said he fell one vote short
of what he needed to suspend the
rules, but added he wasn’t about to
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give up trying. He conceded he didn’t
have unanimous support among some
fellow Republicans who favor the
House-passed version.
Ordinarily, the Senate would be
powerless to do anything with a
House-passed bill except to approve it
or reject it without making any
changes.
Even if the Senate succeeds in
adding the referendum question, the
legislation would have to return to the
House. Last week, the House
approved a similar amendment, only
to reverse itself later during the
heated debate and remove it from the
bill.
Still undecided, Jubelirer said, is
whether Republicans, who control the
Senate, want to deal with the issue
this week before the Christmas
recess or wait until returning in
January.
While calling the legislation a
“horrendous bill,” Jubelirer said he
feels there are enough votes in the
Senate to send it to Gov. Dick
Thornburgh.
• University students who eat in
the dining halls must bid farewell to
many familiar lunchtime casseroles
when this Spring Term begins
• The’contract between NBC-TV
and the College Football Associa
tion died yesterday when the CFA
was unable to get enough of its 61
members to go along with the pact
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