state/nation/world UAW makes GM and Ford dual strike targets By EDWARD MILLER AP Auto Writer DEARBORN, Mich. The United Auto nearly 500,000 domestic auto workers no Workers union decided yesterday to make increase in their base wage rate and no General Motors'Corp. and Ford Motor Co. guarantees that GM and Ford would keep dual strike targets, and gave union Presi- jobs in the United States. The union had dent Owen Bieber sole power to single out made job security its No. 1 issue in this one of the two automakers for a possible year’s contract talks, strike Sept. 14. Bieber said the companies should bring Bieber told representatives of union lo- new proposals to the union “with haste cals from throughout the country that the because there’s only 16 days left.” UAW action means GM and Ford “should He sought to squelch speculation that Walesa urges Soviets to meet needs of Poland By MATTHEW C. VITA Associated Press Writer' WARSAW, Poland Solidarity leader Lech Walesa warned Communist authorities yesterday that the “threat of conflict” in Poland would remain as long as .they failed to meet demands for increased democracy. Walesa accused the government of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski of abandoning the August 1980 agreements with striking workers that made Solidarity the first free trade union in the Soviet bloc. “After 16 months of legal operation and 32 months of hard fight without legal structures, Solidarity is alive,” Walesa said in a statement that was more critical than his recent comments. “Independent trade unions are needed for us, the working people, but they are also needed for Poland.” The statement was prepared for delivery in the Baltic port of Gdansk tomorrow to mark the fourth anniver sary of the signing of the accords, but it was unclear News story offends family, Ferraro says By EVANS WITT AP Political Writer ST. LOUIS, Mo. Geraldine Ferraro said yesterday that a newspaper story raising questions about contributions to her con gressional campaigns is inaccu rate and leaves an “offensive” impression about her family. Ferraro said she had reported every contribution to her congres sional campaigns since 1978 and denied that a recent contribution to her re-election campaign this year was an illegal corporate do nation as suggested by the report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. “My husband and I have al ready disclosed more information about our finances than any other candidate for president or vice president in history,” the New York congresswoman said in a statement released here. “This article leaves an impression about my family which is wrong, alto gether inaccurate, and offensive.” Federal campaign finance re cords show Michael Laßosa con tributed $5OO to Ferraro’s campaign Sept. 11, 1980, six months before he was indicted for labor racketeering, and $2OO four days before he pleaded guilty on April 30, 1982. He served eight months in pris on. 1 In addition to the personal con tributions, a bakery owned by Laßosa gave $5OO to Ferraro’s congressional campaign last July start all over” on their bargaining propo sals. A day earlier, the two companies offered whether authorities would allow Walesa to speak. Walesa has recently called for moderation by the political opposition following an amnesty that freed 630 political prisoners, including several former Solidarity leaders and Walesa rivals. Solidarity was crushed following the Dec. 13, 1981, imposition of martial law. The union was outlawed in October 1982. Walesa’s statement was read by an aide over the telephone to Western correspondents in Warsaw. Walesa, stressing “I have always been an advooate of compromise,” said he was speaking “not with bitter ness, but concern. “It is inadmissible to try to govern without taking into consideration our will to gain self-determination and democracy,” Walesa said. “Further ignoring of the will of the nation bears a threat of conflict, the tragic outcome of which we are not able to imagine.” Walesa charged that authorities had honored the agreements only in “articles and speeches” published in 1. It was this contribution the Inquirer said came from a cor poration and, therefore, was ille gal However,' Ferraro denied that the check came from a corpora tion, saying she based this conclu sion on information provided her by the bank on which the check was drawn. Documents at the New York County Clerk show there is a copo ration and a partnership with sim ilar names. The partnership is named “G. Laßosa & Son” and the corporation is named “G. Laßosa & Son Inc.” “I have recorded on the public record every contribution ever received by my campaign,” said Ferraro’s statement. “The contri butions referred to in this article were legal, and I properly record ed them with the Federal Election Commission.” Referring to the newspaper arti cle’s chacterization of the latter contribution as apparently illegal, Ferraro said: “This is not the case. The bank on which that check was drawn has informed us that this was not a corporate check.” Ferraro said.campaign records show that a check was received from “G. Laßosa and Son, Flour Corp.” on April 25,1984, and that it was returned immediately “be cause it was a corporate contribu tion.” The contribution mentioned by the newspaper came in a check union leaders could not make up their minds, saying the unusual move was the UAW’s best chance to speed up the talks. But Ford chief negotiator Peter Pestillo called the move “a complexity” and accus ed the union of engaging in “theater.” He added that “theatre plays a great role in collective bargaining,” but said the move would rob the talks of the intensity that occurs when one company is the target and the other waits its turn. GM issued a noncommittal statement calling the move an “opportunity.” dated May 6, 1984, on the account of “G. Laßosa and Son, Flour Bakery Supplies.” This is the check Ferraro says the bank told her campaign was not a corporate check. It is not illegal for a business to make a campaign contribution as long as the business is not incorpo rated. ‘I have recorded on the public record every contribution ever received by my campaign. The contributions referred to in this article were legal, and I properly recorded them with the Federal Election Commission.’ —Geraldine Ferraro, Democratic vice presidential candidate Ferraro’s statement opened by saying the article “discusses many events concerning Laßosa’s labor activities which have noth ing to do with me or my family and which I know nothing about.” Running mate Walter F. Mon dale told reporters in Minnesota he has “absolutely no doubt that I made the right choice with Ger aldine Ferraro” and said, “I have utterly no doubt about her integri ty.” Mondale was asked whether he makes it a practice to screen con tributions and return any from questionable contributors. “Anybody in public life who runs 3,500 arrested Authorities round up protestors and Sikh activists By TINA CHOU Associated Press Writer NEW DELHI, India Authori ties arrested at least 3,500 people yesterday in northern and eastern India, to put down protests over the ouster of an opposition leader and to block a planned Sikh convention. About 500 Sikh activists were rounded up in Punjab as the gov ernment tried to stop them from holding an international conven tion of their sect, which officials said would be used by Sikhs to gain political points. More than 3,000 people were briefly detained in eastern Bihar state, where- thousands stopped work to protest the recent ouster of a noted opposition leader in south ern India.. The strikers, including some state legislators, were supporters of N.T. Rama Rao, a popular for mer movie star who was dismissed as chief minister of the Andhra Pradesh state on Aug. 16 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s adminis tration. The United News of India report ed that at least six people were the state-run news media “What about union pluralism? What about freedom of speech, publications? What about lifting repression for conscience?” Walesa asked, reciting some of the worker demands covered in the 1980 accords. “Where are the prisons without political prisoners? What about the just wage adjustments and prices? Where is the selection of 'managerial personnel on the principle of qualifications, not party membership? Where is the reduction of the time for waiting for an apartment?” Government newspapers have published a series of articles in recent days arguing that authorities have honored the agreements. They have defended the Au gust 1980 strikes as an expression of genuine worker concern. The official Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu said yesterday: “The party considers the August strikes as the expression of justified opposition to discrepancies and distortions in building socialism.” The article re tor office has the risk that some one might contribute” who doubts can be raised about later. “It is very difficult to analyze every contributor, ’ ’-Mondale said. “We do the best we can, but it is very difficult to know, under all circumstances, the background of every person who might contrib ute to a campaign.” A real estate firm now owned by Ferraro’s husband, John Zaccaro, did business with Laßosa for seve ral years when the firm was run by Zaccaro’S father —Philip —and continued to manage some of La- Rosa’s properties after the elder Zaccaro died in 1971, according to the Inquirer. Ferraro did not mention the newspaper article in her public appearances, trying instead to press her attack on President Rea gan’s economic policies. She told about 5,000 people gath ered outside the Old Post Office in St. Louis that it is the wealthy who have benefited under Reagan . The UAW chose twin strike targets only once before in its history, in 1970, when GM and Chrysler Corp. were picked before Labor Day. GM was singled out the day before the Sept. 14 deadline, and a 67-day strike ensued. Full-scale strikes against both companies are deemed highly unlikely this year, even though the union has its richest strike fund ever, $563 million. However, a union source said that top officials have discussed striking selective targets at both companies which could wounded as police used truncheons to break up protestors in Bihar. The strike, called by opposition parties, shut down schools, busi nesses and shops in Bihar. Similar protest strikes have been held in at least three other Indian states this month. The dismissal of Rao appeared to have strength ened unity among India’s splin tered opposition political parties, which are trying to defeat Gandhi’s party in national elections due in five months. Officials in Punjab, northern In dia, set up road barriers on high ways and deployed paramilitary troops on bridges in an attempt to prevent an expected 10,000 Sikhs from entering Amritsar city next Sunday for the convention. The government also announced a ban on carrying more than four persons in any truck or tractor trailer, following reports that Sikhs planned to ride into Amritsar from other parts of Punjab in large vehi cles. Authorities said they are consid ering setting a curfew in Amritsar and sealing all entry points to the Sikhs’ holy city to stop the Sikhs Gemayel's death casts a shadow By FAROUK NASSAR Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon The death of Pierre Gemayel, the father of Lebanon’s president and the coun try’s most prestigious Christian leader, casts a further shadow on the already dimming chances to get this nation out of a nine-year civil war. The death of the 78-year-old Gemayel comes' as President Amin Gemayel and his Syrian backed prime minister, Rashid Karami, struggle to contain Leb anon’s warring Moslem and Chris tian militias long enough to impose a security plan around Beirut. It comes, too, at a time when the Christian community is precar iously balanced between those would would follow the president’s leadership and those who resist his move toward Syria following the collapse of the U.S. peacekeeping effort.' The passing of the elder Gem ayel, who died yesterday, report edly of a heart attack, clearly makes it more difficult for the president to rein in younger el ements of the Phalange Party, the dominant force among the coun try’s Christians. < His death could ignite a power struggle within the party and strain the coalition Cabinet The Daily Collegian Thursday, Aug. 30, 1984 hamper and even shut down operations at GM and Ford. The source ppoke only on condition that he not be identified. The strike target decision was made by the UAW’s 25-member international exec utive board, which met for, more than two hours in a ballroom at a suburban Detroit hotel. “We came to that conclusion based on the fact that the proposals made to us by the companies really don’t represent any pro posal,” Bieber said later at a news confer ence. in India from attending the convention. The Akali Dal the main Sikh political party and the Sikh reli gion’s high command called a world Sikh conference to discuss social and political issues, includ ing the Indian Army’s assault in June against armed Sikhs holed up in the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The temple raid claimed about 600 lives, the government said. Unofficial sources said more than 1,200 people died in the three-day battle. Among the 500 people arrested in Punjab were prominent leaders of the Akali Dal. The top leaders of the Sikh party have been detained for nearly three months since the June temple attack. The government outlawed the convention on Monday and began arresting’ Sikh activists the next day in Punjab to keep the meeting from taking place. The sect’s five high priests have criticized the ban as “part of anti- Sikh policies” of Gandhi’s govern ment, and issued religious orders to India’s 13 million Sikhs to come to the convention. Many Sikhs have said they will go to Amritsar, peated the authorities’ contention that the union lead ership steered Solidarity on a radical course.. Although the 950-word statement by Walesa was more critical in tone than his recent calls for moderation, he did not join the call issued by the Solidarity underground leadership for Poles to demonstrate their support for the union tomorrow, and again praised the amnesty as a “step in the right direction” by authorities. “It is not important whether it is a small or a big step,” Walesa said. “It is important it was made in the right direction. I believe this is the direction of dialogue and national reconciliation.” Meanwhile, two Solidarity activists freed from prison were told by prosecutors that their amnesty would be revoked if they continued anti-state activities. One of those warned, Seweryn Jaworksi, who was deputy chairman of the union’s Warsaw chapter, said in a telephone interview yesterday that one of the prosecu tor’s complaints was about his behavior following a Warsaw Mass earlier this month formed with leaders of the various factions to try to bring an end to war. The young leaders of the right wing Phalange control the Israeli trained and supplied Lebanese Forces militia, and were outraged by the president’s decision last March, Under Syrian pressure, to scrap a U.S.-brokered pact calling for withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon. Pierre Gemayel state news briefs Dwyer accused of pocketing funds HARRISBURG (AP) State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer con spired in 1980 to siphon some of his campaign funds into his own pocket, Auditor General A 1 Benedict alleged yesterday. The accusation by Benedict, who is challenging Dwyer in the state treasurer’s election this year, came one month after he publicized allegations that a California company promised a $300,000 contribution to Dwyer’s campaign to win a hefty no-bid Treasury Department contract. But Dwyer called those allegations “filthy campaign tactics” needed “to divert attention away from (Benedict’s) tragic seven year record as auditor general.” Benedict is acting in “desperation” to divert attention from the conviction of his former top aide in a job-selling scheme in the auditor general’s office, said Dwyer. The latest allegations made by the auditor general are based primarily on material four years old that had not previously been made public, said Annette Reiff, a spokeswoman for Benedict. At a Capitol news conference yesterday, Benedict alleged that Dwyer and two Pennsylvania State Education Association offi cials conspired to pocket a percentage of money to be paid by Dwyer’s campaign to a media consultant. However, the scheme never got off the ground and Dwyer never received any money, according to Benedict. TMI radiation effects still uncertain HARRISBURG (AP) Official statements that radiation from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident caused no adverse health effects cannot be justified, according to a court-supervised study released yesterday. Official and unofficial estimates of how much radiation the plant’s neighbors received vary widely and are all based on incomplete evidence, said Jan Beyea, a nuclear physicist who conducted the $lOO,OOO review. The study commissioned by the TMI Public Health Fund analyzed 100 : reports regarding radiation releases during the 1979 accident. The largest estimate of the population’s radiation “dose” from the accident is more than 200 times greater than the smallest estimate, he said. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded that radiation from the accident would result in no deaths from cancer. But based on the available evidence, the number of cancer deaths because of the accident could be anywhere from zero to , 130, Beyea said. nation news briefs legislation sparks friction Embassy WASHINGTON (AP) - A bill to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is expected to win approval from the House Foreign Affairs Committee next month, despite President Ronald Reagan’s strong opposition, congressional aides said yesterday. Overall prospects for the legislation, however, remain uncer tain, with full action this year by the Republican-controlled Senate unlikely. The bill’s House sponsors have agreed to change it to a non binding resolution and to postpone the vote until after the November elections if Reagan will stop expressing opposition to it, said a House staff member who spoke only if not identified by name. But Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz object to the legislation, State Department spokesman John Hughes said. The administration argues that the move would anger Arabs and other Moslems and would undermine U.S. attempts to be an even-handed mediator in the Middle East. Rare cancer may be facet of AIDS BOSTON (AP) A rare lymph cancer is on the increase among homosexual men, and researchers believe it is another facet of the AIDS epidemic. Since the start of the AIDS outbreak four years ago, experts have recognized that an unusual skin tumor called Kaposi’s sarcoma is common among AIDS victims. A new study confirms the suspicion that these victims also are at increased risk of getting a particularly lethal form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. “A second malignancy is now clearly associated” with the deficiency in the immune system that AIDS represents, said Dr John L. Ziegler The researchers identified 90 cases of the cancer among homosexual men in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and New York since 1980, over half of them diagnosed last year. Although many lymphoma victims eventually developed AIDS, the first symptom was often swollen lymph nodes, which also can be an early sign of AIDS. “Ninety cases across the country is not a real epidemic” of the lymph cancer, said Ziegler. “But it sure is remarkable consid ering that this is a very rare cancer to start with.” world news briefs Helicopter crash leaves no survivors MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) An air force helicopter crashed in the north-central province of Matagalpa, killing all three crew members aboard, the Defense Ministry said yesterday. The Soviet-built MI-8 helicopter crashed Tuesday as it took off from the Waswali military base, five miles southwest of the provincial capital, also called Matagalpa, according to a commu- nique. . As the helicopter came down, it struck electrical cables and burned, said the communique, which blamed the crash on mechanical failure. The crew members were not identified. The crash occurred one day after a C-47 aircraft carrying supplies to rebels had crashed 100 miles north of Managua, killing all eight aboard, the Sandinista government and rebel spokesmen said. S. Pacific may soon be nuclear-free SYDNEY, Australia (AP) Leaders of 14 South Pacific nations said in a communique issued yesterday that they have agreed to move toward declaring the South Pacific a nuclear-free zone in view of the bleak arms talks situation. The members of the South Pacific Forum concluded two-day annual talks Tuesday on the.tiny island state of Tuvalu. They said they adopted an Australian proposal to name a working group to draw up a draft treaty under which the 14 nations would agree not to acquire or test nuclear weapons. “The forum noted the importance of the initiative for a nuclear free zone in the region in the context of the disappointing lack of progress in international disarmament negotiations,” the com munique said. But members agreed with Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke that each nation would decide for itself whether to permit visits by U.S. nuclear-powered warships. Clean-up begins on French fuel spill OSTEND, Belgium (AP) A tugboat sprayed detergents into fuel leaking from a sunken French freighter yesterday, and officials said that with good weather they could remove the ship’s 225 tons of radioactive cargo in three to four weeks. Environment Minister Firmin Aerts said that three of the 30 containers of Uranium hexafluoride were “slightly more radioac tive" than the rest. But officials, who have been sampling the water, reiterated yesterday that the submerged'cargo posed no immediate health threat. ' , ~~~~ •: v"" r;) i.do ,V Students! Work Smart. Work Simply... With Hewlett-Packard. If you're in Science or Engineering, chances are your classes include Calculus, Physics, or Chemistry. Engineering Statics, or Dynamics. 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