University Daliv Kansan. March 29, 1984 Page 10
NATION AND WORLD
Polish ban of crosses causes student boycott
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Hundreds of students yesterday boycotted classes at the school where the Polish military regime first touched off an escalating "war of the crosses" with the Roman Catholic Church.
The school, shut down by the headmaster following angry student protests March 7, was re-opened yesterday, but only to students who signed statements saying they would not be the ban on crucifixes in state schools.
"Only those students who sign the statements will be permitted to resume classes," headmaster Ryszard Domanski, said.
About 50 students signed the statements but the rest of the school's 600
students refused and boycotted classes. They said they would try to study at other schools in the Garwolin area unless the crucifix ban was lifted.
The school is located in the village of Mietne outside of Garwolin, which is 40 km away.
Mazur, a leading clergyman in Poland, began his fast Tuesday and vowed to continue as long as the ban on crosses was enforced.
In other developments, Bishop Jan Mazur, who is fasting on bread and water, yesterday briefed Poland's minister of finance about the crucifix ban, church sources said.
Mazur addressed a conference of 80 Bishops during a confidential session in Cardinal Jozef Glempel's palace. Parish leaders, including his talk was of particular importance.
Merger bill withdrawn
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate backers of a proposed 11-month moratorium on mergers by America's 50 biggest oil companies concede defeat yesterday
"We lost fair and square," said Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., a chief sponsor of the proposed moratorium.
Johnston withdrew the proposal after the Senate refused, 57-39, his request to table a substitute by Sen. Bole Doble, R-Kan., calling for a 90-day study — but no moratorium — of oil company Bob Doble's measure passed by voice vote
Dole insisted the proposal would have a chilling effect on mergers by making any legislation resulting from the Senate study, such as fewer tax breaks
in oil acquisitions, retroactive to March 27
Johnston disagreed but, conceding the vote showed that sentiment was against his measure, withdrew his proposal.
"it's all over except the merging," he told reporters afterward. "I don't consider this half a loaf. I know when I was kicked and I was licked on this one."
Johnston, who just 24 hours earlier believed he had the votes to win, said of the defection of backers. "It might have been the creativity of the Dole amendment, which gave some people a fig leaf to hide behind."
Under Dole's measure, the Senate Finance, Judiciary and Energy committees would study the issue of whether to report back to the Senate by July 1.
United Press International
cHENS — Police surround the white Ford Escort in which British cultural attache Kenneth Whitty was assassinated yesterday.
British diplomat is assassinated in Greece
served as deputy representative of the British Council, was shot in the head and died almost immediately after the gunman waved his white Ford Mustang across the British embassy in the fashionable downtown district of Kolakmi.
By United Press International
ATHENS, Greece — A gunman shot and killed a British cultural attache and left a Greek employee of the British Council "clinically dead" yesterday after firing six rounds from a 9mm pistol at the diatom's car.
The attack came less than a week after an attempted assassination of an American consul in Strasbourg, France, and just two days beforeSecretary Ciaspar Weinberg scheduled to visit the Greek capital.
Diana Economidou, a council librarian who was sitting next to Whitty, was shot in the head and neck and was pronounced "clinically dead," police chief Manolis Bossinakis told reporters.
Two other women employees in the car were not harmed.
The gunman, described as an Arab, fired at least six rounds from a 9 mm
pistol at Whitty's car before fleeing into the grounds of the nearby British Archaeological School, an area with several exits, police said.
A 40-year-old merchant marine captain, Dimitris Kiraizia, told police he watched as an unidentified Greek chased the gunman.
In London, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said he was "shocked and deeply distressed" by the slaying. The British embassy is offering $300,000 to the Greck authorities who have started an investigation," he said.
Mr. Whitty is survived by his widow and four sons aged 12 to 18.
Army says it killed 45 rebels
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Members of the Sandista Army said yesterday that they had killed 45 rebels during a week of heavy fighting in a northern province near the Honduran border. And U.S.-backed guerrillas claimed they inflicted 300 casualties among government troops.
A Nicaraguan Red Cross spokesman said a 10-year-old boy was killed when rebels attacked government installations in Managua, 24 miles northwest of Managua Tuesday.
In the Honduran capital of Tequegalpa, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, or FDN, said its fighters wounded 300 government soldiers last week during an offensive in the north Nicaraguan province of Jinotega.
The FDN, the largest group of U.S.-backed, anti-Sandiniista rebels, made the announcement on its clandestine Radio 15 de September FDN members said they placed 1,060 light tanks in central Nicaragua during the offensive.
"The Sandinista Popular Army forces suffered 300 casualties, including dead and wounded, while 157 Soviet-made AK-47 rifles were destroyed, and 26 were captured," they said.
In Costa Rica, the Nicaraguan rebel group ARDE asked that the Sandinista government be allowed to participate in the November elections, which will be the first held since the Sandinistas took power in 1979.
The Nicaraguan government has refused to allow exiled leaders involved in armed rebellions to participate in the election for president, vice president and a constituent assembly
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