University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1981
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Polish consul faults U.S. press
By DAVE MCQUEEN Staff Reporter
Although Poland does face serious economic problems, the American press has greatly exaggerated the country's other problems. Juhlius, general in Chicago, said during a recent visit to the University of Kansas.
Bialy was here Thursday to meet with faculty and administrators in conjunction with an ongoing exchange between the KU and the University of Warsaw.
BILAY, WHO ASKED reporters not to quote him directly, criticized the American press for creating unhappy relations with Iran. Soviet intervention in Poland's affairs.
He said the press had a double standard in covering Eastern European countries. He cited the riots in Northern Ireland as an example, saying they were treated as a normal occurrence, while events in Poland were not.
Despite a recent threat from the Kremlin to take decisive action in solving Poland's problems, Bilyal said that letters from home describe a calmer situation than is reported in American newspapers.
WITH THE EXCEPTION of the riot at Bydgoszcz, where several members of the independent labor unionarity were beaten by local police, Blair Gale, a Polish civil government. Communist Party and Solidarity have shown moderation.
When asked about the possibility of Soviet intervention, Biały said that such speculation was bad for his country because of the adverse effect it had on had much-needed foreign investment and tourism. He said his country and recently experienced a sharp decrease in the number of travel visa requests.
Also, many businessmen have been
hesitant to do business with Poland because of the same fear, he said.
The decrease in tourism and outside investment has added to Poland's economic woes, which Blaty called the most difficult problem his country faced today. According to economists in his country, Blaty said it would take at least three years for the economy to be corrected.
IN ORDER TO correct the economy, Bialy said the government was working on an economic reform program that would include provisions for streamlining the bureaucracy, decentralizing economic decision making and bringing more machinery into the agricultural system.
Besides these measures, Bially said Poland was looking for help in the form of economic aid, credit and food supplies from eastern and western nations.
"A large number of Polish-American citizens are offering assistance as well, Bialy said. This help has ranged from sending gifts to relatives living in Poland, helping the Polish government get economic aid from the United States.
DESPTITE THE country's problems, Bily encouraged more Americans to visit Poland and find out first hand what was going on there. He said there were no restrictions on traveling to Poland, and foreigners enjoyed unlimited movement within the country.
Although his government welcomes assistance from other nations, it is against foreign intervention in its affairs. Bialy said. It is up to the Polish people to solve their country's difficulties, he said.
A lawyer by trade, Bialy has been consul general since 1799. Besides promoting tourism and overseeing exchange programs between the two countries, Bialy is also in charge of issuing travel visa<sup>a</sup>.<sup>b</sup> protecting the rights of Polish citizens in the western United States.
Polish mime, Klekot, combines feeling ideas in original work 'The Wanderers'
Whether he portrayed an amusing hobo mending his trousers or a despairing old man dreaming he is again a boy, every muscle in Polish mime Rajmund Kleket's body communication feeling and idea last night.
Kleket performed his original work "The Wanderer" last night to an audience of about 100 people at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The wanderer, first a carefree hobo, later is a boxer and a soldier coming to the cone room with his crew. Finally, he is an old man still wandering in his imagination.
By LINDA LANG Staff Reporter
"I talk about men not going to materialism, more towards the spirit," he said in halted English Friday.
Kleket, blue blood-blue and dressed in a sports shirt and plaid slacks, said he first became interested in mime as a child. He then worked at the Jean-Louis Barraux perform in a film.
ACCORDING TO KLEKOT himself, the performance is memorable because it begins with gentle, pure comedy, develops into tragicomedy and then becomes very serious and philosophical.
"As a high school student, he was interested in both acting and athletics. After seeing a performance of the musical, he decided he needed studymite with them.
"When I saw that particular performance, it fascinated me," he said.
He performed with the Teatr Tantr
pomimena under Henryk Tomaszewski
for 15 years before leaving to form his
company, the Warsaw Mine
Theatre.
Kleket said the performance of the Teatr Pantomima fascinated him when he first saw it because it was a very special kind of acting. He said he liked the idea that the mimes used illusion to the imaginations of their audience.
He said anyone interested in mime needed both sensitivity and ability to translate this sensitivity into movement.
TOILLUSTRATE his point, he raised his head higher and higher and gradually moved his arms above his head to show the growth of a young plant.
"You have to be very tender, very sensitive to beauty and to the opposite of beauty," he said. "You have to develop your imagination simultaneously. We cannot make empty gestures. Everything should be very orderly, very clear and have meaning."
To do this, a mime must be an actor,
a dancer and an acrobat. Klekot said.
Some mimes used more dance in their performances, according to Klekot.
"The Polish School may be close to dance," Niekot said. "We use more symbol and metaphor and very deep feelings." A school in western poland school has staved closer to tennis.
To illustrate, he said a mime of the French school who wanted to show a man escaping from his confining en-
virement might show the man using scissors to cut himself out, while a muse of the Polish school might make a mask of the movements to symbolize the escape.
KLEKT SAID when he left the Teastr Pantomina to found the Warsaw M theatre. He left a work setting where a director guided the ensemble for a work setting where members of the ensemble developed their ideas together.
"I collected my experience," he said.
"I was ambitious. I wanted to take a stee forward."
He called the troupe 'avant garde'
and said they sometimes had spent
seven or eight hours a day developing
workings and working out new
movements together.
He said he often went on as many as five or six tours a year and sometimes could tell differences in the way that audiences of different nationalities went to France and British audiences tended to be reserved, according to Klekot.
"We talk and we take the best," Klekot said.
"POLISH AUDIENCES are the most difficult in the whole world," he said. "They are very friendly but very skeptical."
For Kleokot, the theatre is not just actors but the relationship between actors and their audience.
He also said that American audiences were "very warm, very critical." When something was not good, they knew it.
"I want to involve people and give them a good feeling," he said.
Ball strike continues; views mixed
From its beginning in early April, to its sudden interruption on June 19, the 1981 baseball season was shaping up to be an eventful one.
By CHRIS TODD Staff Reporter
The Oakland A's phenomenal start, Pete Rene's assault on Stan Musial's hit record, Fernando Valenzuela's eight straight victories and Billy Martin's predictable antics were just a few of the highlights.
REACTION TO THE STRIKE, which began June 19 when the players refused to continue to play, was mixed from KU faculty. coaches and students.
Morris M. Kleiner, associate professor of business and a labor-relations expert, said he tended to favor the players in the dispute.
At issue, according to Kleiner, is whether a team's owner should get some type of compensation—either in the form of a fee or in that exercise his right of free agency.
A free agent is a player who makes himself available for all teams to bid on after his contract with his original team runs out.
THE PLAYERS MAINTAIN that requiring compensation for free agents would greatly reduce that free agent's value and that compensation would violate the concept of a free-agent market system.
"Without free agency," Kleiner said,
The owners say that without some form of compensation for free agents, their ballclubs would eventually go broke.
Kleiner also said that he didn't think the strike would last the entire season.
"the players would not have freedom of movement in the marketplace. In private industry, freedom of movement by workers is guaranteed after a contract ends. Baseball should be no different."
"I think that if the owners believe they can break the players, they will continue to press for free agent compensation. The key for the owners is to put them in play rather than in player development and that they want to get a return on that investment.
"The players, on the other hand, don't want to lose the ground they've gained since the 1972 Curt Flood case that made free agency possible."
Floyd Temple, Jayhawk baseball coach, said that he blamed the owners for the strike.
"I think all of this was started by the owners," Temple said. "They created a monster when they started paying the high salaries, and they should have foreseen the problems they are having now. The people hurt most by the strike are the concession people, stadium employees and, of course, the fans."
TEMPEL SAID THAT he couldn't predict when the strike would end, but that if anybody gave in first, it would be the players.
Most KU students interviewed favored some type of compensation for the owners.
Bill T. Plybon, Leeward school, said the strike didn't affect him much, but that he missed game to Royals games he sided with the owners in the dispute.
"I think it's the right of management to expect some type of compensation for free agents," Plyson said. "If salaries keep going up, it's obviously going to destroy some franchises. I don't expect the strike to last the whole season. It will probably go on another three or four weeks."
Chris M. Chadick, Wichita sophomore, agreed that the owners should get something in return for losing free agents.
"The players already make too much." Chadick said. "I can see football players making that much because the possibility of a short career is so much greater. I don't have any idea when it will be over with, but it doesn't really matter that much to me. I'm not that much of a baseball fan."
JON G. HULLINGS, Wichita junior,
said that he favored no side in the
dispute and that he thought the greatest
harm would come to the game itself.
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"It was shortsighted of the owners to allow free agency to happen," Hullings said. "I think it's fine for players to pursue higher salaries, but they should be careful or they'll lose the support of the public. They could cut their own throats if they allow the sport to be ruined."
Temple, who has been the Jayhawk baseball coach for 28 years, also believes that the strike could hurt the game.
"I just can't help but think that it's去 to tarnish the game of the game we've nurtured all these years," he said. "Somehow it just doesn't seem right that it's summertime and there's no baseball."
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