Polish strikers ask world for support
By The Associated Press
Thousands of defiant workers were
reported striking in Poland yesterday and
appealing for worldwide support to keep the
martial law regime from strangling “a
budding democracy in the heart of Europe.”
Communist authorities told the West not to
interfere, claimed the situation was near
normal and said Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa was trying to ease the crisis.
There were reports, however, that Walesa
was under house arrest, apparently for
resisting pressure from Gen. Wojciech
Jaruzelski’s ruling military council to tell the
9.5 million members of the Soviet bloc’s only
independent union not to launch strikes.
In Stockholm, Olof G. Tandberg, secretary
of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, said he
had indirect reports from Polish colleagues
that shots were fired in Warsaw and Poland’s
southestern mining region, apparently by
Senate restricts abortions
Attempt to place bill 'on referendum fails
By RON WATERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A state bill that would make
abortions harder to get, passed in the
Senate yesterday after an attempt to
place the bill on a referendum failed.
The bill passed 29-21 despite the
opposition of Senate leadership, an
. aide to Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-
Centre County, said. Before the
concurrence vote, an attempt by
Corman to have the legislation placed
on a ballot was defeated 28-20.
The bill must now be signed by Gov.
Dick Thornburgh before becoming
law.
The bill would require:
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as abortion can be pei-formed;T)uring
that period, a woman would receive
counseling about her decision.
• That no abortion be performed in
Israel readies for retaliation
Editor's Note: This story was changed by Israel’s military
censor before it was transmitted to The Associated Press.
By MARCUS ELIASON
Associated Press Writer
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) Israeli army
convoys headed north and Jewish settlers cleaned out
bomb shelters yesterday in a show of readiness for
possible Syrian retaliation over annexation of the Golan
Heights.
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon toured military bases on
the Golan. His office announced that “all necessary steps”
were being taken to deal with any flareup over Monday’s
abrupt legal takeover of territory captured from Syria in
the 1967 Middle East war.
Sharon cabled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and
assured him Israel planned no military action on the
Syrian front or in Southern Lebanon, Israeli TV reported,
Golan Druse Arabs declared a three-day protest strike
inside
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soldiers. He said his sources told him several
people were killed and about 40 injured.
Tandberg said the reports came through
telephone and telex with relay contacts in
Moscow and other East European capitals
who have access to “official phones."
. The Soviet news agency Tass, in a report
from Warsaw, said some “American
agencies" were spreading “inventions” about
“armed clashes ...”
An appeal from a Solidarity chapter in the
Baltic port of Szczecin smuggled to Sweden
aboard a ferry urged people around the world
to “be with us in our hour of darkness.
Solidarity with Solidarity ...”
Due to lack of normal communications with
Warsaw, it was impossible to gauge the extent
of the strikes or their effectiveness.
“Overnight we received increasing reports
of strike activities at major industrial
installations in Poland, but their extent and
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a public hospital or clinic unless the
pregnancy is a result of rape or incest
or if the woman’s life is endangered.
• An abortion technique most
likely to result in a live birth be used if
the fetus is capable of surving outside
the womb. The presence of a second
doctor would be required and if the
abortion results in a live birth, every
step must be taken to preserve that
life.
A prime sponsor of the bill, Rep.
Gregg L. Cunningham, R-Centre
County, said last week he was “more
confident than ever” that the bill
would pass in the Senate due to strong
popular support by the population.
However, Santorum said Corman’s
district office received between 25 to
30 telephone calls Monday supporting
Corman’s position against the bill. He
said of 28 telephone calls received .
• That a minor receive the Friday, 25 supported the senator and
permission of one parent before, the ; the-mail received had been running,.., .
abortion can be performed.
Corman proposed the bill be An attempir by the Senator to obtain
amended to a House-approved crimal the 28 votes heeded to suspend Senate
code bill along with another rules failed by one vote. '
« That unless a woman’s health is
endangered, additional insurance
premiums would be required for
abortion costs to be paid by insurance.
starting today and religious leaders threatened t 6 blacklist
any members of the sect who did not participate.
The military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Raphael Eytan,
broke off a visit to Cairo and flew home as trucks carrying
armor and supplies headed in the direction of the Heights.
There was no sign that Syria was preparing to use force
to counter the annexation of the 458-square-mile plateau,
despite talk of war in the government-controlled Syrian
press and some official statements.
Acting without any warning, Prime Minister Menachem
Begin’s government rammed a law through Parliament at ‘
almost record speed Monday night and extended Israeli
law to the Golan after almost 15 years of military
occupation.
Shimon Peres, the opposition Labor Party chief who was
out of the country when Parliament acted, said he was
“really shocked and sad” at the way the bill was so quickly
passed.
Senate recommends keeping similar schedules
By MARY BETH HORWATH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The University Faculty Senate
yesterday passed a proposal
recommending the Calendar
Conversion Council adopt a class
schedule for the semester system
similar to the present class schedule.
Simple semester schedule chosen
ByROSAEBERLY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The University Faculty Senate yesterday opted for
simplicity over complexity in regard to the semester class
schedule.
Amid objections from Calendar Conversion Council
Chairman James Bartoo, senators approved a proposal
recommending that the council adopt a “flat” rather than
“sawtooth” schedule of classes under the semester
system.
Marylee C. Taylor, chairperson of the Liberal Arts
Council of Senators, defined a flat schedule as one where
classes meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday at uniform
times, and Tuesday and Thursday at longer uniform times.
A sawtooth schedule is a sequence that varies in class
meeting times or intervals between class meetings, she
said.
The flat schedule, Taylor said, is similar to the
University’s present schedule of classes.
The proposal, submitted by the Liberal Arts Council of
Sentors, states, “The University Faculty Senate
recoitimends, for University Park, adoption of a ‘flat’
rather than a ‘sawtooth’ class schedule, to the greatest
extent possible, under the semester system.”
While introducing the proposal, Taylor said the
advantages of the flat schedule have been proven, while
amendment calling for a referendum,
but after the referendum vote failed,
Santorum said Corman withdrew the
proposal.
The Liberal Arts Council of Senators
submitted the recommendation, which
stated the council’s preference for a
“flat” rather than a “sawtooth”
schedule. Under a “flat” schedule,
classes would meet at the same time
each class period.
In other business, the senate
degree of coordination remain unclear," State
Department spokesman Dean Fischer said in
Washington. “While police and military
personnel have been observed around striking
enterprises, there have been no reports of
violence or confrontations.”
Danish military sources in Copenhagen said
the Polish navy stepped up its offshore patrols
in the Baltic, apparently to prevent Poles
from fleeing to Denmark or Sweden. They
said there was no evidence of increased
activity by Soviet or other Warsaw Pact
military forces. Poland’s airports and borders
remained officially sealed except for people
with proper authorization.
The Pentagon reported “absolutely no
military activity” by the Soviet Union in
connection with the new crisis in Poland.
“There has been nothing iri'the way of unusual
(Soviet) troop movement that we know of,”
Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto told
there are very few, if any, advantages to a sawtooth
schedule.
The proposal “recommends that a flat schedule of
classes be presumed the better choice and that the
sawtooth be considered only if the flat is proven
unworkable,” Taylor said.
The idea of sawtooth scheduling arose from a need for
heavier scheduling on Tuesdays and Thursdays, she said.
However, Bartoo, also dean of the Graduate School, said
adoption of the proposal would limit the flexibility of the
University’s Scheduling Office.
“I think we need to preserve for our scheduling office all
the flexibility we can muster,” he said.
Calling the proposal “an innocuous kind of resolution,”
Bartoo listed two objections to approval of the proposal.
Colleges are already involved in consultation about the
class schedule decision, he said, so a proposal is
unnecessary. Also, Bartoo said there are many unknowns
about whether a flat schedule would be feasible under the
semester system, because of four- and five-credit courses.
Supporting the proposal, Liberal Arts senator Arthur 0.
Lewis, said it is easier to deviate from a simple pattern of
classes to facilitate exceptions than to try to adhere to a
strictly regimented sawtooth class schedule. .
Three-credit courses fit very easily into a flat schedule,
Lewis said.
Ammunition
Paul Wharton (sth-electrical engineering) stockpiles ammunition for a snowball fight last night behind Beaver Hall. Since the
first snowfall, a large number of vandalism incidents involving broken windows and minor injuries have been reported to police.
Bell of Pa. files for 18 percent rate hike
By JILL LAWRENCE
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG (AP) - Bell of
Pennsylvania filed yesterday for a
record-breaking $426 million rate
increase that would raise basic
residential rates more than $5 a
month for some customers... .
If approved by the Public Utility
Commission, the 18 percent boost
would go into effect Feb. 13. If the
postponed a vote on PS-23, the
University policy on promotion and
tenure, because ; 3s percent of the
senators were absent. The senate is
scheduled to vote on modifications to
the policy at its next meeting on Feb. 2.
The senate did pass a
recommendation that the Presidential
reporters in Washington.
, President Reagan was briefed on the
situation in Poland, and was told normal
communications were disrupted but that the
United States still had contact with its- ,
embassy in Warsaw, White House spokesman
Larry Speakes said in Washington.
“Warsaw is generally calm,” Speakes said.
“There is a heavy military and police
presence in the streets.”
He said thete were some reports of strikes
at “major industrial installations,” but
added, “we don’t know the extent and degree
to which they are coordinated.”
Some 3,000 Solidarity officials were
reported arrested in Poland since the
crackdown Sunday, and initial calls from
union militants for a general strike Monday
apparently went largely unheeded. But there
were indications that Solidarity activists were
regrduping.
PUC decides to investigate the
request, rates would not change until
next Sept. 13.
PUC spokesman John Frazier
called the Bell proposal “far and
away” the highest request received
from any utility. He said the second
. highest a $344.5 million filing from
the Philadelphia Electric Co. is
pending before the commission.
The wide-ranging rate filing would
Search and Screen Committee “. ..
undertake to include in its
recommendations to the Board of
Trustees specifically those candidates,
of proven executive ability, who have
achieved distinction as scholars in the
academic community.”
Robert F. Schmalz, professor of
geology, said the resolution should
serve the purpose of promoting
discussion among faculty.
The senate also heard an
informational report on
Commonwealth campuses and
Continuing Education Integration.
Robert J. Scanned, dean of the
Commonwealth Educational System,
said that faculty at the campuses are
preparing for the switch to semesters.
“Improvements are occurring not
because of the reorganization, but
because in the process of
reorganization we’re seeing each
problem arise,” he said.
Several problems at the campuses
are being discussed, including
redefining basic policy, restructuring
individual campus administration and
security, maintenance and health
services at the campuses.
“We’re going to be forcing the credit
system together with the computer
system," he said. “We need a more
comprehensible form of grading.
“Continuing Education will be more
in the mainstream of academic
planning," he said.
Scanned also said that operations at
Under martial law provisions, Poles in
military service, the police or militarized
service are subject to court martial, with
penalties ranging from two years in prison to
death. The regime has militarized many key
industries, including coal and oil, which
means workers in those industries who strike
could face courts martial for disobeying
orders.
Speakes said the United States was not able
to confirm Walesa’s whereabouts. Fischer
saicf the State Department received an
unconfirmed report Monday that Walesa had
been detained.
But Annelise Timmerman, head of a Danish
aid convoy returning to Ystad, Sweden, by
ferry from Poland, said she was told by
unidentified sources that Walesa was under
house arrest in a villa just outside Warsaw.
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boost Bell’s profit margin to 13.8
percent second only to the
company’s California affiliate, which
has a 13.9 percent rate of return, said
Beil Vice President Raymond Smith.
Local coinbox calls would still cost
10 cents under the new Bell proposal,
and intrastate toll calls under 30 miles
would be cut by 12 percent.
Business rates would increase by 15
to 40 percent, Smith said.
Commonwealth campuses have
become more efficient. One reason is
because instructional money is now •
allotted in late July and late October.
Previously, the money was allotted in
November and January, and
Commonwealth campuses had
difficulty scheduling additional
sections of classes because the amount
of money they were receiving was
unknown.
“We’re encouraging faculty and
administration to plan a total program
for both the traditional and non
traditional student,” he said.
The senate also voted to modify
student rule 60-50 in accordance with
the semester switch. The rule now
states that candidates applying for a *
simultaneous associate degree must
have at least second-semester
standing and at most third-semester
standing.
Associate Librarian Nancy M. Cline
also presented an informational report
on automation systems at Pattee
Library.
“It’s a slow process, but it will be
beneficial in the long run,” she said.
“The automation program does not
imply the elimination of the book.”
Currently, Pattee only has a few
functioning automation systems. The
Bibliographic Control System enables
the staff to locate and keep track of
library materials.