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University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Polish Communist chief replaced by prime minister
WARSAW, Poland—Communist Party Chief Stanisław Kania, opposed by Moscow for failing to curb Solidarity, was ousted yesterday and replaced by Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelius in a major government shake-up.
Jaruelski, a 38-year-old general who is also defense minister, now has complete power by virtue of his posts as head of the military, government and party. The greatest authority since Marshal Jozef Pilsudski ruled Poland between World War I and II.
country.
In Moscow, a Western diplomat said the resignation submitted by Kania,
at a meeting of the Party's Central Committee, brought Poland "a step
closer to martial law."
After elevating Juruzelski, known as a man of "iron discipline," the 200-member Party Central Committee authorized the government to declare a state of emergency "in case of supreme necessity to assure peace in the country."
"The Soviets will be pleased with his departure," a ranking diplomat in Moscow said of Kania, who came to power in September of 1980 when the Solidarity Union was born at the end of the Gdansk strike. But the envoy held back from saying Moscow engineered the removal.
Jaruelzki was elected on the third day of a stormy three-day Central Committee session in which Kania's leadership was repeatedly attacked for weakness in the face of an anti-Socialist threat and political gains by the Solidarity Union.
U.S. recession verified by Reagan
WASHINGTON—President Reagan said yesterday that the United States was in the midst of a light economic recession, one he hoped would be of short duration.
"I think this is a light and, I hope, short recession," Reagan said in response to reporters' questions. "Yes, I thank everyone agrees on that."
Reagan made the remarks when he paused briefly on the south lawn to speak to reporters before taking off by helicopter for a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the decisive American Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown and a meeting with France's President Francis Merritt.
It marked the first time Reagan had confirmed the nation was in a slight recession. Earlier, some economic experts pointed to the slump in the housing and automobile industries because of high interest rates, as well as the worsening unemployment rate from 7.5 to 7.9 percent last month, as in the wind.
Nimrod sale to Saudis a 'formality'
**LONDON—Britain, eager to boost the $2 billion it will earn from defense equipment sales this year, said it would be a "formalty" to supply Saudi Arabia."**
Arabia with Nimrod surveillance jobs hired 59,000 about the NMCC. British aviation officials had inquired about the latest Nimrod vessel not asked to buy any.
"We have demonstrated the aircraft to them but that is nothing unusual to possible customers," a British Aerospace spokesman said. He added that Lord Carrington, foreign secretary, had said Britain would be more than happy to sell Nimrods to the Saudi.
"We would not anticipate any problem getting the sale through," the spokesman said. "It would be more or less a formality."
has ordered 11 Nimrods for delivery around 1985.
Davan buried quietly on Israeli hill
NAHALAL, Israel—Israel yesterday buried Moshe Dayan, a soldier and statesman, with a little ceremony on a shaded hilltop overlooking his boyhood farming community.
A few hundred people stood by the grave as a cantor sang the Jewish prayer, "God. Full of Mercy."
Dayan's widow, Rachel, was among the crowd which included Prime Minister Menachem Begin, William French Smith, the U.S. attorney general, Butros Ghali, the Egyptian minister for foreign affairs, and dictators from dozens of other countries.
Army Chief Rabba Gad Navon read from he book of Psalms and Dayan's, Eshud, recited Judaism's prayer of mourning, the Kaddish, at the state
Dayan died Friday night in Tel Hasheron hospital near Tel Aviv after suffering two heart attacks in less than 24 hours. He was 66.
Socialists win elections in Greece
ATHENS, Greece—The Socialist Party led by Andreas Papandreou swept to victory yesterday, paving the way for Greece's first Socialist government and a prime minister committed to pulling out of NATO and eliminating U.S. military bases.
Responding to the victory, a State Department spokesman in Washington said, "The U.S. and Greece have long been allies and we look forward to
"We want to have the best relations with the Papandreou government, and we intend to do what we can to foster that."
Pandareun is expected to receive orders from President Constantine Karamanis to form a new administration today.
"We are ready as of tomorrow afternoon to form a government, but the exact time will depend on the president," Papandreou said in a victory statement.
"I snail not lead the country into political adventures," said the former economics professor who was educated at Harvard. "We will work for prosperity, national pride and social justice."
But Papandroure also had called for the removal of American bases from Greece, and during his campaign he vowed to get Greece out of NATO and to take back control of its borders.
Columbia refueled, ready for liftoff
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-Technicians yesterday supervised the delicate process of pouring caustic rocket propellant into fuel tanks of the space shuttle Columbia, draped in a plastic biib to protect its heat-resistant tiles.
It was during this step Sept. 22 that several gallons of the propanol leaked from a faulty valve and poured down Columbia's side, loosening 379 of the valve.
Hugh Harris, information chief at the Kennedy Space Center, said the plastic apron placed "around the scaffer", the section where fuel intake is located, is designed to direct any spilled liquid nitrogen tetroxide away from Columbia and into a storage container.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials were forced to scrub Columbia's scheduled second launch Oct. 9, and move it back to Nov. 4.
measures NASA adopted to avert any repetition of the September accident during this week's fueling of the thrusters.
PHILADELPHIA—The head of the American Federation of Teachers and about 100 other labor leaders from across the nation told Philadelphia teachers yesterday to continue their "historic" 41-day-old strike until their contract is honored.
Philadelphia teacher strike praised
To the cheers of 2,500 of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers' 22,000 members, AFT President Albert Shanker blamed the strike on Mayor William J. Green for refusing to come up with money to fulfill terms of the agreement.
"This strike is unique. It's different from almost every other strike." Shanker told the gathering at the Civic Center. "You are not fighting for a new contract. You are fighting to hold on to the one you negotiated last year."
The teachers walked off the job Sept. 8, contending the school district violated their contract by laying off 3,500 employees and rescinding 10 percent pay increases. The contract was reached last fall after a three-week strike.
Arab feuds could jeopardize world peace
By United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt—The vast sweep of the Arab world, from the hot sands of Yemen to the Atlantic shoreline of Morocco, resembles a political volcano. The Middle East is under United States in deepening confrontation and jeopardize world peace.
The paramount issues—oil, Palestinians, the Soviet Union, the boundless ambitions of Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy and the sudden vulnerability of Egypt after President Anwar Sadat's assassination—are intertwined in a nexus of bitter feuds and tangled alliances.
"Formost" among America's friends in the region.
Egypt, the most populous and powerful of the Arab nations, is the focal point of crisis as President Hosni Mubarak gathers in the streets of power. Egypt's leaders remain consternation in Israel, Secretary of State Alexander Haig stressed that Egypt is
To underscore that special relationship, which is costing U.S. taxpayers $2 billion a year in military and economic aid, Washington quickly sent two AWACs to demonstrate "the ability of the United States, under emergency conditions," as Haig said, "to move into the region if invited."
The two unarmed surveillance planes that will be based in Egypt indefinitely are manned by U.S. crews and are providing the West with information on Libyan military movement and Soviet naval activity in the Mediterranean.
Both Egypt and its southern neighbor, Sudan, fear the threat of invasion from Libya, with its heavy Soviet backing and its foothold in Chad, which runs along the Sudanese western border.
Sudanese President Jaffar Numeiry has double reason to be concerned. On Monday, Sudan's army took control of the city.
But the main problem comes from the quixotic Khadify, whose forces have almost daily been bombarding border villages, according to Numeray.
Ethiopia with its garrison of Soviet Block and Cuban troops.
Sudan has said his patience is running out. Numeir warned he was "seriously thinking of active defense that would carry operations to the interior of Libya," in other words a pre-empive strike.
The Egyptians have been allies on and off with their cousins of the lower Nile since the time of the Pharaohs, and they did not suffer any military Numery against attack or overthrow.
Foreign Minister Karmal Hassan Aali disclosed that Egypt had sent forces to the aid of Sudan. In turn, Numery, speaking at Mubarak's presidential oath-taking, pledged Sudan and Egypt would share "one future, one destiny."
stepped up arms shipments to Egypt and Sudan but President Reagan has made it clear that American forces must be sent to fight in either country.
The United States is considering
The United States also has been at pains to cool some of the heady rhetoric flowing between Numerity and Khadafy
A State Department spokesman in Washington warned that America was concerned "an escalation of tensions and rhetoric could feed on itself and lead to the precise thing we are trying to avoid, an outbreak of hostilities."
Sudan, the largest country in Africa and more than three times the size of Texas, provides "strategic depth" for Egypt and its loss to Khadafy or the Communists would never be tolerated by Cairo. The prospect, therefore, is that as long as Khadafy keeps up the pressure on Sudan's western border, the tension is going to run high in that part of the world.
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