10—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 15,1981
By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State
Alexander M. Haig Jr. said yesterday the
United States has suspended a pending $2OO
- food package for Poland “until the
situation clarifies” over Warsaw’s crackdown
on the Solidarity labor movement.
But U.S. assistance already agreed upon
will be allowed to go through, said Haig, who
returned to Washington late yesterday after
an overseas trip cut’short by events in Poland.
The Communist government in Poland
ttightened yesterday its declaration of mar
tial law after it moved to ban the Solidarity
movement and arrested many of its leaders.
The shaken union was able to mount only
scattered strikes to protest the crackdown
Thousands march in support of Solidarity
; By MARK S. SMITH
1 Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) Tens of thousands marched in
world capitals, youths in West Berlin smashed windows
and West European labor unionists charged Poland’s
; leaders with tyranny. But most Western governments
• said yesterday there is little they can do about the
i declaration of martial law in Poland.
“We shall observe a policy of strict non-intervention,
and we expect the same of all signatories of the Helsinki
Final Act,” British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington
said, referring to East-West agreements on European
security and cooperation signed in Helsinki, Finland, in
1975. The “final act” of the accords deals,with human
rights.
* Portugal formally condemned the Polish government
‘ and praised the “heroic” Polish people in a statement
issued in Lisbon after a special Cabinet.meeting. The
statement condemned “pressures brought to bear on
Poland by various Warsaw Pact countries” and reiter
ated the government’s position that “such interference
in the internal affairs of Poland inadmissable.”
In Paris, all major unions and parties of the left and
right except the Moscow-line Communist Party
joined in a march and a mass rally'near the Polish
Embassy. There was no official police estimate of the
tfrowd, which appeared to number in the tens of thou
sands.
Boulevard Montparnasse was packed by lines of
¥isa granted to Alexeyeva
; MOSCOW (AP) Soviet authorities
yesterday gave a beaming Liza Alexeye
;va the exit visa she had sought for three
’gears, and told her she must leave for the
States within a week.
** “I’m very happy to go out to join my
I must leave the Soviet Union
j£y Dec. 21,” the daughter-in-law of Nobel
Aureate Andrei Sakharov said in halting
while displaying her visa.
’ - Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner
-drew worldwide attention to Alexeyeva’s
pong battle to emigrate by staging a 17-
*flay hunger strike in Gorky, a Volga
•River city 250 miles east of Moscow
'’where Sakharov was banished nearly
isvo years ago.
K * The Soviet government branded the
Israel plans annexation of Syria's Golan
&v ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
(AP) Israel’s parliament,
defying international protest, adopted legislation
yesterday to annex the Israeli-occupied Golan
Heights of neighboring Syria.
iSyria called the move a “declaration of war”
a fid vowed to defend its territories.
-In little more than eight hours, 68-year-old
Prime Minister Menachem Begin won Cabinet
approval, presented a bill to the 120-member
Knesset, and forced it through the three-step
legislative process into law.
Egypt said Begin’s government had violated
tlie U.S.-sponsored Camp David accords. A U.S.
State Department spokesman in Washington said
any unilateral change in the Golan’s status would
be a violation of the 1979 pact between Israel and
ETgypt.
■Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr.,
returning to Washington from a NATO meeting in
Belgium, said the United States regrets "this very
-
U.S. reacts cautiously to Polish crisis
hunger strike a “fresh provocation’
aimed at fanning anti-Soviet sentiments
in the West. But when Sakharov’s condi
tion deteriorated last week, authorities
relented and announced that Alexeyeva
could leave.
Sakharov, 60, won the 1975 Nobel Peace
Prize for his work on behalf of human
rights in the Soviet Union.
The 26-year-old Alexeyeva went to the
visa office at midday yesterday and was
issued the travel documents in about one
hour. She told Western reporters waiting
at the front door that she would decide on
travel plans later this week.
“Yelena is coming back from Gorky on
Wednesday and then we will discuss it,”
she said.
surprising announcement.” Developments in Po
land forced Haig to return home early and cancel
a meeting he had scheduled with Begin.
Begin, directing his forces from a wheelchair,
rammed the surprise annexation bill through the
parliament, formally extending Israel’s borders
to encompass the strategic heights which Israeli
forces captured from Syria during the 1967 Middle
East war.
In Damascus, state radio carried a government
statement saying the action was “ a declaration of
war on Syria and the abrogation of the cease-fire
... the Syrian government will defend its territo
ries and its national interests.”
After renewed hostilities in the heights in the
1973 Middle East war, Syria and Israel agreed to a
cease-fire, with the help of the United States.
The parliament bill passed its first reading with
a 60-17 vote and went to committee for only three
hours. It returned to the floor for the final two
votes, each approving the bill by 63-21.
Begin told the house he had not consulted with
designed to end its year-long flirtation with
power.
“I think it’s very important at this time that
food and humanitarian relief already in the
pipeline will proceed, but at a time like this we
are going to hold in abeyance a decision on
further aid to the government of Poland until
the situation clarifies,” Haig said.
Haig flew to Washington from Brussels
after canceling the remainder of a tour which
would have taken him to the Middle East and
Asia. He confered with President Reagan
over the situation in Poland late yesterday.
The secretary said it is too early “to draw
any definitive conclusions” about Poland but
warned again that Soviet intervention in that
eastern European country “would have last
ing consequences in East-West relations.”
people 50 abreast for more than a mile. Their banners
and slogans demanded freedom for jailed Solidarity
members. There were reports of 23 other demonstra
tions throughout France.
About 10,000 young people paraded through downtown
Milan, past the offices of the Polish national airline
LOT, in what police said was a peaceful protest of the
military council takeover in Poland and the arrest of
thousands of members of the independent trade union
Solidarity.
In downtown Reykjavik, Iceland, about 2,000 people
gathered in sub-zero temperatures to protest the Polish
moves.
In Australia, several hundred protesters, mostly
Polish immigrants, staged demonstrations at the Polish
consulate in Sydney and around a civic Christmas tree
in Melbourne. The latter group sent a telegram to Prime
Minister Malcolm Fraser calling for an end to diplo
matic relations with Poland.
Fraser said Australia would be ready to accept Polish
refugees if necessary. He said the government would
ignore Polish requests for economic aid if the Soviet
Union intervened in Poland.
There were demonstrations as well in Naples, Ma
drid, Copenhagen and Vienna.
Outside the Polish embassy in The Hague, demonstra
tors carried signs saying, “Under Socialism, People
Decide Not Generals.”
In West Berlin, the protest was less even-tempered,
At the State Department, officials urged
Americans to “defer their travel to Poland at
this time.” That exhortation was hardly sur
prising, since the Polish Foreign Ministry told
the U.S. embassy earlier that “no foreigners
from the West can enter Polancf. ”
Meanwhile, a senior administration official
aboard Haig’s plane predicted that the United
States and its allies would impose diplomatic
and economic sanctions if Poland tries to
crush hard-won political reforms.
The official, who insisted on anonymity,
said the NATO allies have made clear from
the outset of the reform movement last year
that they would not respond militarily in the
event of Soviet intervention.
“The real question is whether or not the
West would acquiesce by conscious policy in a
New Hinckley
info disclosed
Washington on the surprise move, knowing the
United States would object. “Why put the Ameri
cans in a difficult position? To invite their ‘no’ and
then not take it into account would not be politi
cally wise,” he said.
The low vote total reflected the absence of
several dozen members of the Labor Party. Begin
caught the opposition party off guard, and most
Labor members were absent for the first vote on
an issue that deeply divides their party. In the
final two readings Labor members were split.
The bill was supported by Begin’s Likud Bloc
and coalition allies, and opposed by a scattering
of splinter parties and dissenting Laborites.
Begin acted with a speed that stunned the
nation. The prime minister came out of hospital
after 18 days of recuperation from a broken bone
in his hip joint, and called an immediate Cabinet
meeting at which he won unanimous approval for
annexing the heights. Then, seated in a wheel
chair, he put the bill to the Knesset, or Parlia
ment, for ratification.
Gangs of youths shouting “Hands off Poland” smashed
windows at ticket offices of LOT and other East Euro
pean airlines. The youths also burned flags of Western
nations, in protest of the “non-interference” policy.
Union leaders in the West accused Polish authorities
of totalitarianism.
Poland’s government “has now placed itself on the
same level as other dictatorial regimes,” the Danish
Federation of Trade Unions said.
In Brussels, the 70-million member International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions filed a complaint
• with the International Labor Organization, a branch of
the United Nations, accusing the Polish government of
stifling Solidarity.
The International Metalworkers Federation in Gene
va said Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish premier,
“will find that bayonets cannot dig up coal and that
tanks cannot produce food.”
Britain’s Trades Union Congress “condemns this act
of repression,” General Secretary Len Murray said.
Newspapers used even stronger words.
Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende asked, “Is Free
dom Finished?” In Paris, Le Matin printed a picture of
Solidarity national leader 1 Lech Walesa with the cap
tion: “Hope Assassinated.”
Amsterdam’s De Telegraaf said Jaruzelski “in a
desparate attempt to keep Soviet tanks out of the
country, has turned Poland into a' military
dictatorship.”
Baker opposes domestic cuts
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Republican Leader Howard
Baker suggested yesterday that Congress has cut spending too
much this year in some domestic programs, and may have to
“repair some of the damage.”
At the same time, Baker called for tax increases, cuts in
benefit programs and “more than just token savings” in
defense spending in the 1983 budget President Reagan is
preparing for submission to Congress next month:
“I agree with others who say that you’ve cut all you can cut
for all practical effect from discretionary programs,” said
Baker, R-Tenn., who helped shepherd Reagan’s proposals for
spending cuts through Congress.
“And there may be some of them that you maybe have to go
back and repair some of the damage that’s been done. We may
have overdone it already in some of them,” he said.
He did not specify which of the- hundreds of domestic
programs that have been cut he had in mind. But the so-called
discretionary programs, which do not include defense or
benefit programs such as Social Security and food stamps, bore
the brunt of the $39 billion in spending cuts Congress approved.
Baker made his remarks before a group of Gannett newspa
per executives. His office released a partial transcript of the
session.
meaningful rollback of reforms,” he said.
“We don’t anticipate they will.”
Among possible economic sanctions, he
indicated, would be a cutoff in food and other
economic assistance and a possible suspen
sion of Western bank loans.
“The West has made it clear it would not
contemplate military actions from the begin
ning,” said the official. “Its tools are diplo
matic and economic.”
“We want to strike-a. stance that avoids
extremes,” he' said. “Clearly, we want to
tread a fine line between taking positions
which would incite violence-and bloodshed
and perhaps intervention; on one hand, and
avoid positions which would acquiesce in the
repression of the reform process.”
U.S. officials said the government of Prime
> By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) John W. Hinckley Jr. took
target practice in Colorado several months before he
shot President Reagan, prosecutors disclosed yester
day.
In a memorandum filed in U.S. District Court, the
prosecutors in the Hinckley case said: “We will
introduce evidence to show that Mr. Hihckley en
gaged in target practice in late 1980 and early 1981 at
a rifle range in Colorado.”
The memorandum said the rifle range is located
near Denver and ear protectors used by Hinckley at
the target practice were recovered from the de
fendant’s room at his parents’ house in Evergreen,
Colorado.
The legal paper, by U.S. Attorney Charles F.C.
Ruff and Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger M. Adelman,
did not elaborate.
The memorandum was filed on orders of U.S.
The same method was used in 1967 to annex
predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, arousing an
international protest.
The Knesset rejected an amendment that would
have declared the annexation measure did not
close the door to peace talks with Syria.
Speaking on the amendment, Begin insisted it
did not preclude negotiations. “But that’s ob
vious,” he said. “The moment that Syria says it is
ready for peace, that same moment we are ready
to negotiate.”
Syria, regarded as Israel’s most implacable
enemy, has been involved since last spring in a
dispute with the Jewish state over Syrian anti
aircraft missiles in Lebanon.
David Kimche, director general of the Foreign
Ministry, told reporters the annexation came
“after a lengthy period of increasing frustration
at seeing the growing extremism of Syria.” He
said the failed Arab summit in Morocco last
month, at which Syria opposed all peace moves,
made up Israel’s mind.
Showing support
Elias Walendowski ,5, holds up his solidarity button at a AFL-CIO rally in support
of the Polish Solidarity movement. He is the son of Tadusz Walendowski, a Polish
refugee, who spoke at the rally.
Baker’s comments come as the Reagan administration is
preparing the 1983 budget.
Budget Director David Stockman, in a preliminary briefing
for several Republican senators last week, reportedly said the
major budget cutting thrust for the next several years would be
in the same domestic programs that bore the brunt of the 1981
cuts. '
Several sources said Stockman indicated Reagan does not
intend to call for tax increases or higher defense cuts. Stock
man indicated cuts in benefit programs would be targeted for
about $lB billion in 1983 and 1984, far less than some Republican
senators would like, these sources said.
But Baker, in his public remarks, outlined this advice for the
administration:
• Tax increases, which he called “revenue enhancement”
measures, possibly including a “windfall profits” tax on a
deregulated natural gas industry, excise taxes on tobacco or
alcohol and closing some of the “loopholes” in the tax bill
Congress approved earlier this year.
Baker said he opposed any change in the “fundamental tax
package” that provided the three-year cut in personal income
taxes.
• Cuts of unspecified size in benefit programs, although
Social Security is “off limits” until a presidential commission
makes a report on the subject next year.
Minister Wojceich Jaruzelski felt it had to
crack down on the Solidarity movement by
arresting many of its leaders because it was
calling for elections that could topple the
Communist regime.
One official said he believes the leader of
the Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, was
not arrested because he is regarded as a
moderate who can be useful in helping nego
tiate a solution to the current difficulties.
These officials also said there is no why of
knowing whether Polish troops would fire on
Polish workers in the event of a clash, and
they say they also cannot be sure whether
Polish troops would fight Soviet troops if they
tried to intervene. They are understood to
believe some might fight in both cases, while
other units might not.
District Judge Barrington D. Parker. He asked the
prosecutors to outline the evidence they will present
in the first part of Hinckley’s trial, in which the
government will attempt to convince a jury that
Hinckley shot President Reagan and three others on
March 30.
Hinckley has admitted the shootings, but has
pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
Yesterday, Adelman asked Judge Parker to recon
sider his ruling that bars prosecutors from using a
statement provided by Hinckley several hours after
he allegedly shot Reagan. Adelman said the
statement could be crucial in showing the jury that
Hinckley was sane during the March 30 shooting.
Adelman argued that Hinckley was rational enough
while making the statement to ask law officers about
the Academy Awards and a basketball game. '
Hinckley was not present at yesterday’s hearing,
which Parker originally scheduled to determine if
Hinckley remains competent to stand trial. *
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stronger than
By DON WATERS
Associated Press Writer
j WASHINGTON (AP) The Nuclear Reguiato
i ry Commission’s authority to halt construction or
! operation of nuclear power plants which violate
; NRC standards is a far more potent weapon than
| fines or criminal prosecution, the agency’s chair
< man said yesterday.
! ‘ ‘The true effect of a given civil penalty or other
! sanction imposed upon a given licensee is not
( always predictable,” Nunzio J. Palladino told a
; House Government Operations subcommittee.
! But it is virtually certain “that the NRC can
! cost a licensee millions of dollars if the agency
requires him to halt construction or shut down
while inspections, verifications or rework are
carried out,” he testified. '
“So'it behooves the licensee to get the work
done right the first time or catch the mistakes
early,” he added. “That power is a very credible
deterrant.” >
Palladino noted that the NRC recently used this
weapon when it revoked the interim operating
license of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in
California after it was found that miscalculations
had been made in the facility’s ability to absorb
earthquake shocks.
While praising Palladino’s actions, Rep. Toby
Moffett, D-Conn., chairman of the environment,
Fight over abortion bill delayed
WASHINGTON (AP) Fears of a filibuster
and a snowstorm headed off the latest congressio
nal attempt Monday to extend strict new limits on
abortion paymments to health plans for federal
workers.
Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., sought to re
instate the anti-abortion provision in a $9 billion
Treasury Department spending bill.
But Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore., who has
long been a leader of the pro-abortion forces,
served notice that he did not want the measure
voted upon without a fight.
After some delaying tactics by Packwood,
Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn.,
called for, a recess until Tuesday. It is not clear if
the Senate will attempt again to take up the anti-
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energy and natural resources subcommittee, said
the NRC enforcement program has traditionally
not been “a credible deterrant to utility miscon
duct.”
And, Moffett said, “the NRC is often too slow to
respond to allegations of massive breakdowns in
quality assurance,” such as occurred at the
Zimmer Nuclear Power Station owned by the,
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.
Moffett lauded the NRC for assessing “an
unusually large civil penalty”- of $200,000 in that
case, but also released documents showing the
NRC’s auditing office criticized the way the
NRC’s investigative branch handled the probe.
Palladino acknowledged that such internal
problems exist and said he and other NRC com
missioners are “trying very desperately to im
prove” the agency’s investigative operations.
One document released was a Nov. 16 letter
from Palladino to Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., in
which the chairman said the Zimmer investiga
tion should have been more comprehensive but
that public health and safety had not been jeopar
dized by its faults.
On another topic, Palladino and a fellow com?
missioner, Peter Bradford, said they doubted that
President Reagan’s stated goal of placing 33 new
nuclear power plants in operation in the next two
years would be met.
abortion proposal.
■ A Packwood aide said the senator never threat
ened a filibuster but only warned Senate leaders
that opponents of the anti-abortion move wanted
“some time tol talk about it.”
An aide to Baker said the majority leader had
hoped the snag could be avoided as the Senate
presses to adjourn this week. But faced with a
deadlock between Packwood and Denton and
predictions of bad weather in the Washington
area, he decided to call off any more floor action.
Denton’s proposal would cut off abortion fund
ing for health plans of federal workers unless the
lilfe of the mother was at stake. A similar plan has
passed the House but was removed from the
Treasury Department money bill.
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Mat Leavell (left) and Mark Leavell (right) sitaround their
family’s Christmas tree in Monroe, Mich. The family tradi
tion of hanging the tree upside-down started two years ago
when Mat was 18 months old, to keep him out of the tree.
The Board of Trustees of The: Pennsylvania State University invites
applications and nominations for the position of President. .
The Pennsylvania State'" University is Pennsylvania's land-grant
University dedicated to providing comprehensive programs In Instruction,
research, and public service,. The University has a full-time faculty of
approximately 3,000 and a student enrollment of approximately 62,000 of
which 35,000 are enrolled at the University Park Campus. An additional
27,000 students are enrolled at the University's twenty-one other campus
locations, including The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The current
annual operating budget is $495 million.
The corporate authority for the management and government of the
University is vested by charter in the board of Trustees. The President
serves as the chief executive and educational officer of the University
and Is responsible to the Board of Trustees.
The nominees for this position should have a broad understanding of
academic Institutions. They also should have executive experience and
proven leadership capacity. Nominees should have familiarity with the
diverse missions of a comprehensive undergraduate, graduate, research,
and public servide institution.
The position will be available on July 1, 1983
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Spurred by
the increasing number of women
studying to be doctors, enrollment in
the 126 U.S. medical schools has
reached a record, a college associa
tion reported Monday.
Some 66,298 medical students are
now enrolled, up 1,100 from last year,
according to the Association of Amer
ican Medical Colleges.
Women accounted for all of the
increase as their ranks grew by more
than 1,200 to 18,505, or nearly 28
percent. Four years ago, only 14,200,
or 24 percent, of the medical students
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rea
gan administration said Monday its
recommended legislation to tighten
eligibility for black lung benefits and
double the excise tax on coal would
make the federal fund that pays the
benefits solvent by 1995.
However, Frederick L. Webber, of
the Edison Electric Institute, a na
tional association of investor-owned
electric utility companies, said con
sumers would be charged an additio
nal $267 million in 1982 if the proposal
is enacted. He also said the industry
Doll
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Raggedy
Ann, who overcame her origins as a
faceless attic rag and went on to
become a carrot-topped confidante to
generations of children, turns a well
preserved 67 years old today.
The doll has made a movie, pro
moted books, changed the color of her
hair and acquired a male friend, but
never lost her appeal since the day
she John Gruelle and his wife created
her for their disconsolate daughter.
In fact, some people who should
know say her following has become
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The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 15,1981—:
were women,
The women hold nearly 31 percent
of the places in this year’s entering
classes.
The association also said enroll
ment of “under represented minori
ties” grew slightly in the past year
from 8 to 8.3 percent. It said there are
nearly 3,900 black medical students,
or 5.9 percent; 229 American Indians,
or 0.3 percent; 1,040 Mexican-Ameri
cans or Chicanos, or 1,6 percent; and
350 Puerto Ricans, or 0.5 percent,
studying in schools on the mainland.
expected its coal needs to increase by
one-third by the year 1989.
Webber said the legislation does not
go far enough to remove what the ;
utility industry considers to be wide- -
spread fraud and abuse in payment of 2
benefits, which are intended to go to "
miners suffering chronic respiratory
disease.
The administration package is sup
ported by coal operators, insurance
companies and, most recently, the
United Mine Workers. The steel in
dustry is neutral.
67th birthday
more fanatical in recent years.
“There’s a mystique about Ragge
dy Ann that there wasn’t 10 years •
ago,” says John Noble, curator of
toys at the Museum of the City of New '
York. He says that a “cult of Ragge
dy Ann, like the teddy bear, became
important in the last few years.”
Noble says Gruelle “called her
Raggedy Ann because she was so '
shabby.” She was created when a -
neighbor gave Gruelle a doll, and in
1918 the first Raggedy Ann book was
published.