The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, October 12, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 37 USPS 650-640
Workers protest Solidarity ban with strike at Gdansk shipyard
By United Press International
WARSAW. Poland — About 8,000 angry workers in Gdansk, the Baltic port where Solidarity was born, struck for eight hours in prison on Friday. The government banning the banning of the trade union witnesses said.
The strikers covered the name "Lenin" on the big sign at the shipyard's main gate, replaced it with a banner that read "Solidarity" and said they would work hard to recover again today unless three demands were met.
The demands were the reinstatement of Solidarity, officially outlawed by Parliament over the weekend, freedom from detention for an estimated 600 union members, including Lech Walesa, and amnesty for anyone accused of martial law violations.
THE INTERIOR ministry ordered the release of 308 interneses to Poland's military chief Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski had promised, but neither the government nor the solidarity figure was expected to be among them.
Polish television played down the protest but said “forces of order used means of compulsion” to disperse groups who ingrusted outside the center. It noted more than two hours after the end of the strike.
Telephone and telex communications with Gdansk and the other main port of Szczecin were cut off. It was not immediately known whether there were other protests elsewhere.
AT NIGHT, the official Polish media and independent reports reaching Warsaw said police armed with tear gas, water cannon and
flares dispersed youths who gathered near the Gdnsk train station and near the shipyard gate. No further details of the police action were given, but it is clear that those who were "mattingly few" patrons of riot police
Near the end of the strike, police staged a show of force by driving a convoy of four armored vehicles including a water cannon, past the shipward gate, the witness said.
BESIDES THE Lenin shipyard, witnesses said the nearby Northern and Repair shipyard stopped work at 6 a.m. locked the shipyard gates and refused to let anyone in or out until the of their shift, and the strike, at 2 p.m. Afternoon and evening shifts worked normally
One worker said the entire shift joined the strike, except for Communist Party members and activists of other official groups. "It was just like August 1800," said one witness, harking back to the mass strikes that led to Solidarity's victory. "The atmosphere was just the same."
WORKERS FLASHED the V-for-victory sign, chanted pro-Solidarity slogans such as "Solidarity is, was, and will" and *sang religious words* in a catholic anthem with pro-Solidarity words, a witness said.
The shipyard gates were decorated with flowers, crosses and pictures of Pope John Paul II and Walesa, intermed since martial law was declared Dec. 13. "About 2,000 to 3,000 townpeople gathered in front of the gate, bringing the fire, cigarettes and flowers," the witness said.
Leaflets were circulated calling on workers to
a four-hour nationwide strike. Nov. 10, the
second anniversary of Solidarity's registration as the East blee's first independent trade union.
AN ANGRY U.S. response to the outlawing of the Solidarity trade union in Poland put the Reagan administration in a "comic situation," a Soviet commentary said.
The Novist agency said that U.S. government moves to suppress strikes by the air traffic controllers and locomotive engineers are "more eloquent than a terrorist says" when they move an army payment in Poland.
It also said the United States wanted to stir up "ant-Jalilish hysteria" to distract the world from the gas pipeline linking Siberia and Western Europe despite U.S. objections. "The United States wants to bring the Cold War to the Cold War by confronting a normal thing in international relations," Novelli said.
AT THE VATICAN, Pope John Paul II met with 10,000 Poles and demanded martial law rulers "stop the tears" of his countrymen to help them defend themselves to deserve to be driven to tears and despair."
He later told Polish bishops they must work to defend "liberty, dignity, sovereignty and independence" because the "social and moral rebirth of the working man" through Solidarity cannot be erased. "I have seen and noted many tears here. And it is not good that when my brother was born in Poland, they arrive with tears in their eyes, because they are not tears of joy," the pope said in Polish.
"I EVEN HEARD cries, and I want to respond, above all to those who are not present because they are in interment camps and prisons or who nonetheless suffer in Poland.
Stock market surges past 1000 mark; economists differ on reasons,outlook
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Declining interest rates and overzealous belief in a rallying economy have many people jumping into the stock market, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average over 1,000 for the first time in 16 months, a KU research economist said yesterday.
The market closed yesterday at 1.012.
The economist, Richard Sexton, said that the market's climb was artificial and that he would need to do something.
"I wouldn't买 at the prices now and if I was in I would sell," Sexton said. "I can't see how it can stay as high as it is. I wouldn't be surprised to see it drop to 900."
attractive as the rates of return fell with interest rates.
HE SAID ONE reason the market rose so quickly was because other places to put money, such as All-Savers Certificates and other certificates of deposit, were becoming less
Now that the stock market has moved up so substantially, from around 730 in June to 1,012 yesterday, people are going to start taking their profit and setting out. he said.
"Once some people start selling it's like a bandwagon effect," he said. "As fast as it is, itoses."
But others predicted this was the start of a bull market.
Stephen Hill, office manager of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., Ninth and Massachusetts streets, said he did not think the market would take such a large hit. But those logos were changing from negative to positive.
"I believe this is the start of a major buil
climbs as high as 2,000 within the next few years,"
HILL SAID only rising interest rates could reverse the unward trend of the market.
recent pledge by Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the federal Reserve Board, to keep interest rates low, it was not likely that interest rates would go back up.
Major banks lowered their prime lending rate to 13 percent last week, a move reinforced by the fifth trimming of the Federal Reserve's discount interest rate. Summer, according to United Press International,
He said that with shrinking inflation and a
Hill said blue chip stocks were front-runners in the market surge, and, among other reasons, people were buying them because All-Savers stores are so popular. People were looking for a new place to invest.
"A lot of people who had All-Savers Certificates are seeing that they can get a better return on their money by buying Exxon, and they're now saying 'they've' he said. "We had a record volumes last week."
LAST WEEK HIS company made about 100 individual commissionable transactions a day.
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Scott Obley, Kansas City, Kan., junior, enjoys some free time between classes looking through his spinning kaleidoscope. Obley blows through a tube that makes an inside piece spin, creating a multi-colored light show.
The Douglas County Clerk's office will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today to register voters for the Nov. 2 general election, County Clerk Patty Jaimes said recently.
There will also be registration from 11 a.m. to p.m. today at the Student Senate office in the Building 202.
The deadline to register is 9 p.m. tonight.
The clerk's office is on the first floor of the building.
Tonight is deadline for voter registration
Kristi Lowe, a registered nurse, checks the heart rate of a premature child as part of the continuous care at the neonatal center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Neonatal nursery helps babies, families adjust
By VICKY WILT
An infant weighing about the same as a "103 cup of canes" and small enough to fit in an adult hand was surviving her fifth day of life yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical
Staff Reporter
"This is a good sign," Loy Mason, assistant head nurse of the Med Center's neonatal unit, said. "because many premature babies this small do not live this long."
The infant was born Oct. 6 during the 24th week of gestation, or 16 weeks premature, and now she is one of 16 premature babies in the unit's incubators.
Walter said, "Overall, I think 90 percent survive, but the smaller they are the greater the survival."
THE SURVIVAL RATE for a baby born weighing less than 1/2 pounds is 50 percent. For those weighing 2 pounds it increases to 70 percent, be said.
The nurses and doctors caring for the premature babies in the unit help the parents to manage their care.
The nurses talk cheerfully to the babies as they work with them. When babies graduate to a higher weight category, nurses take them out of their incubators and hold them.
Maslen propped a tiny baby in the crook of her elbow and rocked the feathery wedge bundle as she walked around to answer questions from other nurses in the unit.
"THE BABIES have never been held and they don't like to cuddle, but they overcome that," she said. "Touch is important for the baby and because they are deprived of their parental role."
Maslen said it was important to hold the tables once they were big enough because after going for such a long period of time without being held they did not like to be touched.
Physical therapists also work with the babies, helping them to overcome their resistance to exercise.
Parents are encouraged to spend as much time as possible with their babies. They can call and ask about their babies' conditions any time, and they will be asked a day, said Don Walter, attending neonatologist.
"We were told it was like a Quik Trip, open 24 hours a day," said Patricia Rector, whose son is recovering from surgery.
The babies in the unit are cared for on a one-to-one basis as much as possible. Maslen
"We are everything to them. We are their
mamas, nurses, uteruses, everything," she said.
MANY OF THE BABIES are on respirators to help them breathe. They do not like the respirators and many will fight them, especially if they are somewhat stronger than others, Maslen said.
Maslen joked about this and said, "Big babies on respirators are ICU nurses' pet peeves."
A, one of the unit's charges, should See PREMATURE page 5
Engineering students queue for first shot at job interview
By BRET WALLACE
Staff Reporter
The line outside 4002 Learned began growing at 3 a.m. yesterday, but people were not waiting for the KU-K-State basketball game or even concert tickets.
Engineering students were in line to sign up for job interviews, which are becoming scarce this year, said Chuck Thomas, an engineering student.
Waiting in line, Thomas, Olathe senior, said that until this week people were showing up outside the office earlier each night as new companies visited, but that it had leaved off.
"Last week burned people out. Just the real die-hards, not on here this year." Thomas said.
MANY LARGER companies such as Exxon Corp. and Du Pont are here this week for interviews, which students had to sign up for last week
Thomas said he arrived at 3:10 a.m. for his fifth night in line. He was second in line.
Doug Hoffman, Emporia senior, said, "I was ready to stay all night if we couldn't get in the ballpark."
Thomas said, "It is worth getting up in the morning to make sure I get an interview. I figure
“This year is a stark change from last year. We have had it so good before that this seems
'Why shut a door?' This is the only chance you get for recruiters to come to you.
HOFFMAN, who was the last of the five students to arrive by 3:30 a.m., said that last year students could sign up at 9 or 10 a.m. and still get a spot.
Thomas said many companies that had interviewed in the past were not interviewing this year or were sending fewer recruiters. The reason for the change this year, he said, is that companies are panicking because of the economy.
"When you have 25 to 30 students competing for 13 interviews, it gets to be a dogfight," he said.
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For example, Thomas said, Exxon, the largest employer of chemical engineers, will interview only 13 KU students this year instead of the 39 to 52 students they had interviewed in past years.
FRANCIS STACEY, recruiter for Du Pont, said companies' profits were down this year, so they were looking for ways to save dollars. Cutting payroll size by not replacing people was
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the low 60s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be west to northwest at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 40.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the mid- to upper 60s.