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News Briefs From United Press International
Solidarity activists' arrest causes outbreak of violence
WARSAW, Poland—Police officers wielding clubs yesterday battled 5,000 protesters angered by the arrest of three Solidarity activists for distributing anti-state and anti-Soviet leaflets.
It was the worst outbreak of street violence in 14 months, officials said.
The protesters thronged the streets of the southern mining city of Katowice after police arrested three union members for selling underground newspapers and Solidarity leaflets from a van. Two of the unionists escaped into the crowd and police detained the third.
Official reports said the crowd attacked police, hurled stones at the police station and overturned a police van. A Solidarity spokesman said helplined officers were among the victims.
After the riot, officials said they confiscated 2,500 leaflets.
Police began to crack down on the union press after recent Soviet warnings that the union was getting out of hand. Solidarity news sheets in newspapers and online sites were widespread.
In another development, about 12,000 textile workers defended both Poland and New Zealand, beginning the second week of a strike to protest Poland's food shortage.
"The supply problem has become tragic," one striker said. "We eat bread, tomatoes and pickles and only cook soup. I waited in line three times to get it."
Talks between Solidarity and the government to end the strike did not resume yesterday. Union negotiators said they were bogged down after the government's charge that the strike was political and that workers were not entitled to strike pay.
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union yesterday granted the Palestine Liberation Organization full diplomatic recognition.
The decision to give the PLO's Moscow office embassy status was disclosed after an hour-long meeting between Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Gaza Strip, and President Obama.
Arafat will conclude today what he called his most important visit ever to the Soviet Union. He said the Kremlin's diplomatic recognition was "a very important achievement."
Arafat said, "its importance comes also from the fact that it is a step taken by one of the major powers in the world."
The Soviet Foreign Ministry said that the PLO office, which was formerly known as a representation, would enjoy all the rights and status of an embassy, and that Mohanumed Asheir, the PLO's envoy, would be considered an ambassador.
Arafat called Brezhnev "the great friend of the Palestinian people."
Weinberger calms European fears
GLENEAGLES, Scotland—Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday tried to calm European fears that the United States might abandon Europe during a limited nuclear war.
At a conference of NATO ministers on nuclear strategy, Weinberg said the European press had broadcast Reagan's recent remarks on a possibility of the nuclear threat.
"It is unlikely that the going off, or the deployment or the release of one of these battlefield (nuclear) weapons could automatically trigger anything."
In Moscow yesterday, Soviet president Leonid Breznev said any sort of nuclear war between the superpowers would be dangerous roads.
Breshnev's statement was impetus to Reagan's statement Friday that he could see waging a war "without either one of the major powers pushing the
Brezhnev said Soviets were dedicated to "preventing nuclear war altogether, so now it is up to the United States and its leadership."
Reagan to address Cancun summit
WASHINGTON—President Reagan will try to convince developing nations of the rewards of the free marketplace when he meets with 21 world leaders at an economic summit in Cancun, Mexico, his advisers said yesterday.
"He goes to Cancun with an agenda of his own on what is the best way of achieving economic growth," Secretary of State Alexander Haig said after meetings.
The two-day summit, opening tomorrow, will be attended by world leaders, including India's Indira Gandhi, China's premier Zhao Ziyang, Great Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and France's President Francois Mitterrand.
Top Army defense strategist fired
WASHINGTON—The White House yesterday fired an Army general from his job as top defense strategist because he did not get advance approval of a speech that declared, "The Soviets are on the move, they are going to strike."
White House aides quickly moved to minimize Maj. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer's grim assessment of the Soviet military threat.
"Schweitzer's position is more pessimistic . . . than the president's own view is," a White House spokesman said.
Richard Allen, the National Security adviser, transferred Schweitzer from his key position on Reagan's national security staff, in which he was in charge of defense. Allen moved the general to an unspecified position at the Pentagon.
Schweitzer's dismissal followed his address to several hundred Army officers Monday in which he said the Soviet Union had gained nuclear superiority and that the United States was "in the greatest danger the republic has ever faced since its founding days."
Increase in unemployment predicted
WASHINGTON - President Reagan yesterday told a group of the nation's most successful businessmen that he would stick to his economic plan. At the same time, the government predicted that unemployment would reach 8 percent by the year's end.
Murray Weldenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, told the migration nation's current 7.5 percent unemployment rate would rise "to the marginality level."
Each percentage point represents more than a million jobless people, so the increase would mean that 500,000 more workers were out of jobs.
A Morgan net privately with members of the American Business Conference, which represents companies that grow more than 15 percent a year.
Egypt firm on Palestinian autonomy
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday said Egypt would make no concessions to Israel in this week's Palestinian autonomy debate.
The two moves were Mubarak's first departures from Anwar Sadat's policies.
Egypt will stick to its policy and principles and will not relinquish any of the documents Al-Ahram, Egypt's semi-official newspaper, quoted Mubarak as saying.
Israeli, Egyptian and U.S. negotiators will meet today in Tel Aviv for a week-long session.
Yesterday, on the eats of the talks, Mubarak ordered Cairo's three Arabic-language daily newspapers not to publish anti-Arab stories in today's papers. Even Libya's Col. Ommarm Khadafy, who is often attacked in cartoons and editorials, was snared.
Mubarak and he wanted to give Arabs, who broke off relations with Egypt to disband the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, 'the opportunity to reassess their powers.'
Health care service to join Med Center
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Hospitals usually specialize in treating sick people, but the University of Kansas Medical Center is trying to force them from getting sick in the first place.
On Jan. 1, 1983, Kansas City Health Care, Inc., a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) associated with the Med Center, will open its doors.
The Med Center helped serve as a catalyst for the formation of Kansas City Health Care to do two things: to extend the Med Center's leadership role by providing more access to Medical Services, and to provide preventative health care. HMO executive director Patrick Thompson said yesterday.
Health planners during the Nixon administration encouraged the development of HBOs because they offered a source of boosts—which are rising faster than inflation.
THOMPSON SAID HMOs cut health costs because they are prepaid programs, and patients see doctors more often than under the traditional fee-for-service arrangement. HMO centers are able to detect problems in early stages and prevent illness—which is cheaper than treating it.
The HMO will provide its patients with all their health care needs, he said. Because patients will not be charged for anything else, as they would be under a traditional insurance plan, HMOs are cheaper.
Kansas City Health Care, Inc. patients will pay a fixed monthly rate, like an insurance premium, Thompson said, but those rates have not yet been set.
Doctors from the Med Center will be under contract to work at the HMO, and tests and surgery that cannot be performed at the HMO will be performed at the Med Center for the same basic fee. Thompson said.
THE HMOS THAT exist across the nation have been so successful at offering low-cost medical care that insurance companies, which were the HMOs' most serious competitors, are buying into them, he said.
"That's pretty solid testimony."
Ten years ago, there were only 35 HMOs nationwide, Thompson said, with 3.5 million patients enrolled in them. A third group, with 10 million patients enrolled in them.
When Kansas City Health Care, Inc.
opens its doors early next year,
Thompson wants to have about 4,000
patients enrolled.
He said he hoped the HMO would be financially self-sufficient in three years, but at first, its funds will come from U.S. Public Health Service grants.
The Med Center will be extending its influence when the HMO opens, Thompson said, because it will operate in Johnson and Wyandotte counties.
That's one of the tasks Thompson said awaited HMO planners before they seek Kansas and Missouri certification in the middle of next summer.
THE EXACT LOCATION of those centers has not yet been decided, he said.
"We have a lot to accomplish. But, on the other hand, we've already gotten it right."
"In the meanwhile, we'll finish contract negotiation with health care providers, refine our financial plans and try to locate our facilities," he said.
Thompson said that his organization was designed to serve residents of
Johnson and Waydotte counties in Kansas, as well as western Jackson County in Missouri.
He said that the HMO had a marketing department that was already planning ways to attract patients from those areas.
"We will be printing brochures, using direct mail, taking out ads and using
the electronic media," he said. "We don't know about hillboards yet."
Kansas City Health Care, Inc. will be the third HMO in the Kansas City metropolitan area, but Thompson said it isn't worried about the competition
"Their utilization has been about what they expected," he said. "We feel very positive."
Yearbook meets first deadline will feature more campus life
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
The staff will have five or six more deadlines before the final deadline near the first of March, he said, adding that he would distribute the books around May 1.
The first 84 pages of the 1981-82 Jayhawey bookyear made deadline yesterday at Josten's American Bookstore. The manager Neil Barnett said yesterday.
This year's book will display great changes, according to David Kesley, editor. The approach will be more journalistic and less artistic, he said.
"If there's a picture, there will be copy to go with it," he said. "Forty years from now, we can look back at a Dyche Hall and know what it was."
LAST YEAR'S BOOK had pages of uncaptioned pictures of miscellaneous aspects of campus and community.
A new section in this year's book will be "Campus Life," 59 pages of photos and copy portraying life on campus, Kelsay said.
The cost of the yearbook will increase from $13 to $15 this year to help cover the publisher's 10 percent increase in production costs, he said.
The staff is also selling space to any student group at the rate of $50 for a half-group group picture and $55 for a full-page, including a picture and copy with information about the group, Barnett said.
INTERESTED GROUPS may call the Jawkeyward office in the Kansas Union, which will send a photographer to a location that the group chooses.
He said he expected to sell 4,000 to 5,000 yearbooks this year. Last year, 3,000 books were purchased.
Kelsey said, "I'm not into the money for this book. I just want to put the book together."
Kelsey said this year's staff was larger and better organized than last year's. The staff includes writers, editors and photographers from residence halls, scholarship halls, sororities and off-campus residences.
"The staff is really working well together," Kelsey said.
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