state
Haig doubtful on
aid to El Salvador
By GEORGE GEDDA
Associated Press Writer
He said the central problem is that
"Marxism-Leninism espouses revolu
tion under the guise of social justice"
WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary but its real objective is the "imposi
of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said tion of the kind of totalitarianism we
yesterday the Salvadoran national are seeing emerge in Nicaragua and
elections "deserve our support," but the tragedy we are seeing in Poland
reaffirmed that future American fi- today."
nancial backing will depend on a
continuation of the existing govern
ment's reform movement
Haig, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua
the Press," said "the very fact of a
which, he said, has yet to fix a date for
free election ... is a step toward holding elections even though it took
democratization." power before the civilian-military
But, he - said , if Salvadoran voters Junta in El Salvador, -
elect a constituent assembly domi- On the Middle East, Haig said the
nated by rightist political forces, confrontations last week between Pal
"that's their business. estinians and. Israeli security forces in
"We have supported the current the West Bank and the Gaza. Strip
regime based on the reforms they must be viewed in the context of what
have instituted," he said, "and it will is a "traumatic period" for Israel.
be adherence to those principles that He noted that Israel will relinquish
will determine the level of , American
support." within the next month its "strategic
The Reagan administration was
buffer" in the Sinai and is removing
Israeli settlers from that area.
presumed to be supporting the Chris-
tian Democratic party of President He expressed hope that once the
Jose Napoleon Duarte in yesterday's Israeli withdrawal is completed,
election. there will be greater progress in talks
Duarte appeared to be facing his on establishing a system of Palestin
biggest challenge from the National ian autonomy in the occupied territo-
Republican Alliance, headed by Maj. ries.
Roberto D'Aubuisson. ' On China, Haig said that U.S. rela-
D'Aubuisson, descibed by former tions with that country are at "a very
U.S. ambassador to El Salvador Rob- sensitive stage" but added that the
ert White as a "pathological killer," continuing conflict over Taiwan is
has said he may try Duarte on only part of the reason.
charges of treason if his party wins.
Haig, alluding to critics of adminis- He said the Chinese appear to be re
tration policy toward Central Ameri- evaluating the credibility of •the
ca, said Americans should be "more American commitment to contain the
clear-eyed and clear-headed" about Soviet Union and also are disap
the alternatives to existing anti-corn- pointed over the level of U.S. trade
munist regimes in the region. and assistance to China.
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Salvadorans line up to vote near the capital before yesterday's national elections. They began lining up before dawn to wait for the polls to open,
Journalists protest
association's end
By THOMAS W. NETTER
Associated Press Writer
"This fact cannot be changed by
official lies, trying to show the dissolv
ing of a democratic organization as
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Fifty meeting the demands of the people
Polish journalists have circulated an involved (journalists), and the reason
open letter here protesting the disso- of state," the letter said.
lution of their professional association
in favor of a new, pro-martial law The letter described the dissolution
group, informed sources said yester- of the old association as illegal and
day.
asserted "the new organization does
Poland's Roman Catholic primate not represent our professional and
meanwhile called in a sermon for creative interests," the sources said.
conciliation with the military rulers. The sources did not say when the
Sources said the journalists' letter letter had been sent to the editor-in
was addressed to the editor-in-chief of chief of the paper. They said
the popular Warsaw daily Zycie Bratkowski was not among those sign-
Warszawy (Warsaw life), but an edi- i ng it .
tor on duty at the newspaper, which is _
favored by the intelligentsia, said he Meanwhile, martial law authorities
knew nothing about such a letter. raided an illegal printing house near
The journalists' letter is a protest Lodz, in central Poland, and arrested
against the dissolution of the Polish nine people for publishing anti-state
Journalists' Association, headed by leaflets, Polish television said yester
prominent Communist liberal Stefan day.
Bratkowski, and its replacement last.
Wednesday by the Association of The broadcast said the printers
Journalists of Peoples' Poland. used a West German printing press to
The group of writers joins the Inde- produce leaflets and illegal
copy
pendentpublica-
Association of Students as the tions for distribution. Printing,
second major social group to be dis- ing and distributing such items was
solved since the authorities imposed banned by the martial law decree of
martial law here last Dec. 13. The last Dec. 13.
authorities also banned the indepen- Poland's Roman Catholic peimate,
dent labor union, Solidarity. Archbishop Jozef Glemp delivered a
"The activities of the chief board of sermon heard by some 2,000 to 3,000
the (old) association were among the people outside Warsaw's main cathe
bright spots in the history of Polish dral under balmy spring sun yester
journalism," the protest letter said. day. He preached conciliation with
"It served well the interests of society the authorities and told Poles to look
and readers and journalists." to the Virgin Mary for hope.
nation/world
Haig contrasted El Salvador's at
tempt to hold national elections with
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Observers encounter high turnout
By ROBERT PARRY
Associated Press Writer
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) U.S. observ
ers praised Salvadorans who jammed polling pLices
yesterday, enduring long lines in blistering heat and
braving gunfire to cast votes in El Salvador's nation
al elections.
Returning to the capital after the polls closed last
night, American observer Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
said the election was fair andlhe message sent by the
voters was, "We are voting against violence and for
democracy."
"You should be very proud," Sen. Nancy Kasse
baurn, R-Kan., said earlier in the day to a woman in a
line of more than 10,000 people that stretched all
around the center of Santa Tecla, eight miles south of
the capital.
Kassebaum headed an eight-member U.S. dele
gation, among some 200 observers from' about 40
countries who came to monitor the election of a
constituent assembly. The vote is strongly supported'
by the Reagan administration as a means of leading •
the Central American country out of its 2 1 / 2 -year-old
civil war.
Leftists boycotted ths election, and gunfights be
tween leftist guerrillas and government soldiers kept
polling places closed in Usulutan, the country's
fourth-largest city. Elsewhere, sounds of street fight
ing could be heard by the waiting lines of voters.
Clark Kerr, president emeritus at the University of
California at Berkeley, said he was overwhelmed by
the heavy turnout in Santa Tecla, where the voters
seemed in a festive mood.
"This is amazing," he said. "I've never seen people
so anxious to vote. This one lady we stopped and
talked with said they were voting for peace."
Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University,
said the heavy turnout indicated "the people are fed
up with nonsense."
Election spcialist Howard Penniman said it was the
heaviest turnout he had seen among the 45 elections
he has observed worldwide.
The observers, however, expressed concern that
the long lines meant many voters would have to stand
out in the tropical sun for hours.
Kassebaum said she was concerned that some
people would get discouraged and not vote, but added
that many had said they were willing to wait hours.
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Protestors burn bills
on TMI anniversary
By RICH KIRKPATRICK
Associated Press Writer
then, progress on the cleanup has
slowed because Met Ed's parent, Gen
eral Public Utilities Corp., says it
HARRISBURG (AP) A group does not have enough money to cover
protesting the financing of the Three the estimated $1 billion cost.
_ _
Mile Island cleanup burned utility A number of protestors carried
bills on the steps of the Capitol yest- signs, including one proclaiming that
terday to mark the third anniversary
yesterday was day. 1,096 for the 578,000
of the nuclear accident. people in the region held "hostage" by
Organizers of the Project David the plants. "Shut down TMI forever,"
prOtest said they had collected about read the sign.
1,200 bills from customers of Metro-
politan Edison Co., which owns 50 Richard Orsi of York, who stood on
percent of TMI. About 75 people stood the Capitol steps with his wife, Laurie,
in brisk temperatures to listen to and 4-month-old son Nathan, said peo
speeches and watch the bills being ple are increasingly upset with higher
burned on a charcoal grill. electric bills in the wake of the acci-.
Project David founder William dent.
Keisling said the bills represented "The bottom line for me is to get it
about $350,000 owed this month to Met cleaned up and closed down," he said.
Ed, which has a total of about 320,000 In a speech, Keisling, a free lance
customers. writer, said the company should be
"It's a symbol," said John Mur- forced into bankruptcy so the "com
doch, a retired state employee after munity" can take over the plant and
he placed his own utility bill on the assure that ratepayers are not sad
smoking, flaming coals. died with cleanup costs:
Although he is served by a different
• He urged that Met Ed customers
utility, Pennsylvania Power and Light
Co., he said its own nuclear plant now continue withholding payments until
under construction at Berwick could they are guaranteed that they won't
be hit with the same kind of accident. be charged for cleanup.
"I think it's a means for giving the The Pennsylvania Public Utility
public the opportunity to address their Commission has approved $37.5 mil
real feelings on TMI and nuclear lion in higher rates to pay for cleanup.
power in general," he said, noting But the money can't be used until
that it was the first time he had GPU's undamaged Unit lis returned
participated in a protest. to service, still at least six months to a
TMl's Unit 2 was damaged in the year away. GPU customers are pay
nation's worst commercial nuclear ing $l5 million a month for replace
accident on March 28, 1979. Since ment power.
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U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., left, and The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University,
watch Salvadorans vote in San Miguel during yesterday's elections. The two were part of an eight•member
delegation from the United States.
"I was just simply amazed to see this crowd this
early," she said. "It isn't anything like you would see
at home."
.Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., another observer, also
stopped in Santa Tecla before heading out to the
western provinces to watch voting there.
Santa Tecla is a moderate-sized working-class
town that appears well off by Salvadoran standards.
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., went on the most per
ilous trip for the observers, heading by helicopter to
the eastern provinces where much of the fighting
with leftist guerrillas has occurred.
One U.S. observer, Richard Scammon, an election
~~ .wry,
Leftists boycott elections
By TOM FENTON
Associated Press Writer
SANTO DOMINGO, El Salvador (AP)
While many Salvadorans were casting ballots
for a new constituent assembly yesterday, a
bearded guerrilla named Oswaldo and his com
rades fingered their automatic rifles in an
ambush on the Pan American Highway and
vowed to fight on. for "an authentic democra
cy."
"We're not interested in what the people are
voting for today. We want a real democracy,"
the 25-year-old rebel chief in sweat-stained
fatipes said in an interview.
The 60-member assembly will be empowered
to rewrite the constitution and name a provi
sional government until new elections are held,
probably next year. Leftists are boycotting the
elections, charging their candidates would be
assassinated by the rightist parties.
Oswaldo and members of his band, perhaps 10
in all, had set their ambush on an unpaved ,
section of the highway two miles southeast of Oswaldo said members of the group were
this village and about 40 miles east of the flankers for rebels "carrying out an operation
capital. around San Vicente," the nation's fifth largest
The guerrillas were strung out along a 30-foot .city some eight miles to the east.
AP Laserphoto
A group of protestors pour a jar full of Metropolitan Edison Company electric bills
onto a lighted charcoal grill on the front steps of the capitol In Harrisburg,
yesterday. The group is protesting the financing of the Three Mile island cleanup
project.
of •
specialist, left the delegation yesterday. Press
spokesman Jeremiah O'Leary said Scammon flew
back to the United Statds because of a minor health
problem.
The U.S. delegation said Saturday that conditions
were in place for a fair vote and expressed confidence
that any attempt to steal the election could be
detected.
Although U.S. officials here said the countryside
was relatively safe, most of the U.S. observers
focused their attention on polling places fairly close
to the capital city.
ridge overlooking the highway.
Two RPG-2 rocket grenades lay in launchers
atop field packs at road level but were partially
hidden by an indentation of the bank.
"My name is Oswaldo. I can't tell you my last
name or where I came from for security rea
•sons," said one, adding that he was a member
of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front.
The U.S. government says the front, named
after Marxist guerrilla Farabundo Marti who
was killed in 1932, is split into five factions.
Oswaldo identified himself as a member of a
faction calling itself the Armed Forces of Liber
ation.
The U.S. government says the FAL was
formed as the military wing of the Communist
party of El Salvador and is headed by Jorge
Shafik Handal, a former University of El Salva
dor law student. He is said to have later trav
eled to the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Ethiopia and
Eastern Europe seeking arms.
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state news briefs
Welfare cuts bill faces fight in state Senate
HARRISBURG (AP) Although it has
been rewritten to attract more votes,
legislation cutting off welfare cash
grants to 68,000 able-bodied Pennsylva
nians appears headed for a floor fight
this week in the state Senate.
The Republican-backed bill, which also
would force thousands of welfare recipi
ents to do public service work to get
payments, passed the House last week
after it was redrafted by a joint confer
ence committee to get Democratic votes.
If the Senate approves the measure, it
goes to Gov. Dick Thornburgh, who has
pushed similiar legislation during his
administration.
Senate Republican Leader Robert Ju
belirer, whose caucus controls the Senate
with 26-24 majority, said he feels the bill
has a good chance of passage, despite
strong Democratic opposition and the
fact that three Republicans voted against
an earlier version.
But Senate Democratic Leader Ed-
nation news briefs
Rescue team works to free trapped trooper
LAFAYETTE, N.J. (AP) A state his feet were above his head, said War
trooper leading Boy Scouts on a spelunk- ren Hall, northeast coordinator for the
ing expedition in this Sussex County National Cave Rescue Commission.
community fell, becoming wedged in a Originally, state trooper Col. Clinton
chilly, narrow crevice, and rescue work- Pagano had said Weltner was trapped
ers drilled gingerly through the rocks upside-down.
yesterday trying to reach him. Elaine DeLuca, a registered nurse
Paramedics who reached the legs of 48- 1 from Morristown Memorial Hospital,
year-old Scoutmaster Donald Weltner' said she spent an hour crawling toward
yesterday morning were unable to detect Weltner, and was able to reach as far as
any sign of life from the trooper ser- his knees. She said she detected no pulse.
geant, who has been jammed in the "He was cold, very cold," she said.
Crooked Swamp Cave since 3 p.m. Satur- "There's one area you can stand in, but
day. the rest of the way you have to crawl on
Rescuers managed to pull on Weltner's
legs, bringing him to a more level posi
tion. When he first fell into the crevice,
Spring freeze damages southern fruit crops
(AP) A late March freeze snuffed
the blossoms of spring in Dixie orchards
yesterday, costing fruit growers millions
of dollars, as temperatures dropped to
io record lows from Maine to the Carolinas.
A "replay of January" in the West
dumped a foot of snow in parts of• Califo
rnia.
The entire apple crop in western North
Carolina, where most of the state's $24
million crop is grown, was wiped out as
temperatures dipped into the low 20s,
officials said. Damage to peach orchards
was extensive.
The multi-million dollar peach crop in
South Carolina also suffered as tempera
tures dropped to 19 degrees in Walhalla,
26 at Greer and 29 in Columbia.
Engine trouble causes plane crash, 4 dead
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) A small
plane developed engine trouble and
crashed into a cornfield near here yester
day, killing four people, according to
Maryland state police.
The Piper Cherokee Cruiser developed
engine trouble shortly after taking off
from the Carroll County Airport around 2
p.m., said Sgt. Jerry Gooding. The sin
gle-engine plane hit several trees and
took a sudden nose dive into the cornfield
about 1 1 / 2 miles northwest of here, Good
ing said.
The plane's pilot was apparently trying
to land the aircraft in the field when it
crashed about 2:15 p.m., Gooding said.
Two of the plane's occupants, identi-
world news briefs
Birth control may ease expected explosion
WASHINGTON (AP) An expected
explosion in world population by the end
of the century can be blunted with im
proved birth control methods and in
creased support of international family
planning efforts, a new Congressional
study said.
The Office of Technology Assessment
report released yesterday said more
than 20 new or improved contraceptive "Even if growth rates continue their
methods will be available in the next current decline, the world's population is
decade. expected to increase from 4.5 billion in
But yearly worldwide family planning 1981 to between 5.9 billion and 6.5 billion
. assistance will have to increase ten-fold in the year 2000," said the study.
Argentinian groups fight to save penguins
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) A
Patagonian newspaper report last month
saying that the Secretariat of Maritime
Affairs had authorized the annual "proc
essing" of 48,000 Magellan penguins
brought an outcry from Argentina's few
small environmentalist groups.
Public response was unprecedented for
such an issue here, with "Save the Pen
guin" editorials appearing in newspa
pers across the country and pro-penguin
calls flooding conservationists' offices.
A temporary injunction barring the
slaughter was issued while a federal
court studies the matter.
"We've won the battle, but the war is
not over," Gustavo Costa, a director of
the Argentine Wildlife Foundation, said.
Magna Carta escapes
SALISBURY, England (AP) Fires,
apparently started by arsonists, broke
out in the 750-year-old Salisbury Cathe
dral housing the original copy of the
Magna Carta but the historic document
was unharmed, cathedral authorities
said yesterday.
The Rev. Keith Hugo, spokesman for
Bishop Sydney Evans of Salisbury, said
thieves apparently started two fires ear
ly Saturday "as an act of spite" when
they found only a few pence in the offer
tory boxes. Cathedral authorities had
collected donations froM the boxes a
ward Zemprelli said he doesn't view it
that way. Zemprelli said that with 630,000
jobless Pennsylvanians, it is the wrong
time to be telling welfare recipients to
find work.
"To dump more people on the street
without any income would be catastroph
ic. It's absolutely cruel," said Zemprelli,
predicting there would be very few mem
bers of his caucus voting for the plan.
Jubelirer noted the 'bill now allows
three months of welfare cash grants each
year to the able-bodied in return for
doing public service work. Initially, re
cipients were to get only one monthly
check.
More than 140,000 people who receive
cash grants or Aid to Families with
Dependent Children would have to ac
cept jobs offered by local governments or
nonprofit organizations and work enough
hours at minimum wage to cover their
welfare checks.
your back or belly. We were down there
for about an hour and a half, but you lose
all track of time and everything."
Pied by state police as Eberhard Gorg
Trams, 56, of Chevy Chase, and John
Edred Don Carlos 111, 20, of Bethesda,
were pronounced dead at the scene of the
crash.
The pilot, Francis Lightfoot Fenwick,
33, of Baltimore County, was dead on
arrival at Carroll County General Hospi
tal here, said Trooper Walter Drumm.
A third passenger, Elaine Isabell Dion,
20, of Bethesda, died after she was taken
by helicopter to the shock trauma unit at
Baltimore's University Hospital,
Drumm said.
Airport manager Jack Poage said the
plane took off in a westerly direction and
crashed one mile west of the airstrip.
by the year 2000 to $10.7 billion annual
ly to supply needed levels of these
contraceptive methods and services, it
said.
Fertility has been declining worldwide,
but population growth is continuing be
cause of past high birth rates, falling
death rates and declining infant mortali
ty.
Illustration by Brian Bronaugh
harm in cathedral fire
short time before, he said
"The automatic alarms were set off by
the smoke and if it had not been for the
speedy action of the fire service there is
no doubt that the cathedral would have
been burned to the ground," Hugo said.
The arsonists, who had gained entry by
climbing a drain pipe and breaking a
window ,escaped before police and fire
men arrived, he said.
Hugo said the Magna Carta, the free
doms charter signed by King John of
England in 1215 in the face of demands by
his disgruntled barons, was undamaged.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS
Monday, March 29
Pass/Fail
Eco-Action, "On-going Crisis at Three Mile Island" films, 12 to 6 p.m., HUB
Assembly; Bev Davis, TMI area resident, on effects of TMI accident, 7:30
p.m., HUB Gallery Room. •
"Behind the Red Star," 4 p.m., 112 Kern. Robert Theberge, Ph.D. cand., on his
experiences in People's Republic of China.
Aikido Club meeting, 6:30 p.m., IM Wrestling Room
NSSLHA meeting and lecture, 7 p.m., 318-19 HUB
Penn State Marketing Club meeting, Second Mile Sunday's registration/Run
ner's Committee, 7 p.m., 323 HUB.
Keith Ward, piano recital, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall
PANHEL Debate, Women's Awareness Week Political Awareness, 8:30
p.m., HUB Assembly Room.
JUNIORS
At
LA VIE
WANTS YOU
Now is the time to sign up for your
SENIOR PORTRAIT.
Stop in 209 HUB or call 865-2602
for appointment.
Those in the colleges of Arts & Architecture, Agricul
ture, Business, Earth & Mineral Sciences, or Education,
your portraits must be taken spring term.
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