University Daily Kansan/Monday, January 23, 1989
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Solidarity welcomes government offer to negotiate
The Associated Press
GDANSK, Poland — Solidarity on Sunday welcomed the government's offer to negotiate legalizing the trade union movement and said talks should begin as soon as possible to combat Poland's chronic economic and social ills.
A Solidarity statement, released after an almost two-day meeting, clears the way for the first formal talks between Solidarity and government authorities since a military crackdown crushed the trade union in December 1981.
December 10.
But Solidarity leader Lech Walesa cautioned, "I wish that there be no euphoria. Anything is still possible."
Is it true we will be solving Polish
problems in a pluralistic free way? We will see very soon," he told about 5,000 people after Mass at St. Brygida's church in Gdansk.
Gdańsk.
Solidarity's National Executive Commission that it was willing to meet the government's condition that it respect Polish law and observe the statute that made Solidarity the East biez's first and only legal, independent union in 1980.
The statement said that by agreeing to negotiate the union's legalization, the government had met the union's conditions for beginning reform talks that authorities first proposed during serious labor unrest in August.
ugust. "We are responding, stretching out our
and seri-giving.
After the Mass, about 1,000 people marched from the church chanting, "Solidarity! Solidarity! Legalize Solidarity!" Police blocked the march after a few blocks, and the group disbanded peacefully.
hand, because the other side stretched out its hand, too," Walesa said. "We are committed to agreement. . . But we have to remain free and self-governing."
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Oryxziek national spokesman Janusz Oryxziekiewski said cooperation between the union and government seemed to be "the only solution" for the nation's chronic consumer shortages, mounting debt to the West and rising inflation.
"As long as Solidarity is committed to a non-violent strategy, to compromise, obviously there is no question of overthrowing the government and replacing it with another." he said. "So we must get together and try to solve our problems."
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There was no immediate response from the government.
The statement from the 20-member executive commission, adopted with one abstention and no votes against, said, 'We state that the possibility of negotiations concerning Solidarity and the matters of the country has been created.
has been created.
Walesa told reporters Solidarity could be ready within two months to hold its first nationwide congress since 1981. He indicated the union might resume its Weekly Solidarity newspaper because "without a press, we
would be nothing."
No date has been mentioned for the talks, but both sides have indicated they could begin within a few weeks.
The Communist Party Central Committee last week agreed to offer the opportunity for more than one legal trade union and partic- iate by the opposition in governmental bodies.
Solidarity said a committee of three veterans of the war had been formed to prepare for negotiation.
"This time political pluralism is on the horizon, and we hope that Poles will be more wise and better in 1889 and will take advantage of this chance for everybody." Walesa said.
Eskimos to see end to hard day's night Sky to be cloudy on first day of sun
Source: Associated Press
Stephen Kline/KANSAN
The Associated Press
BARROW, Alaska — The sun will rise again today over this Impiat Eskimo whaling community.
People living in this northernmost community in the United States haven't seen the sun since Nov. 19, when it set at 1:04 p.m.
"We're going to try and bring it up where everyone can see it, for all the holling and shouting," Evans said Saturday.
Chuck Evans, station manager in Barrow for the National Weather Service, said the long winter night would end today with sunrise at 1:09 p.m. and sunset about an hour later.
Eskimos call January "the month of the new sunshine." Kenneth Toovak, a local elder, said the start of the new year and the return of the sun should boost everyone's spirits at a time when temperatures have been holding at 35 degrees below zero.
There's just one little problem. Evans said the sky was expected to be cloud-covered.
Three arrested on arson charges in KC
The Associated Press
'KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Murder and arson charges were filed Sunday against three people arrested in connection with a fire last week that killed six members of a family spanning four generations, police said.
S six counts of second-degree murder and one count of arson were filed against 17-year-olds Aaron O. Frazier and Tino Wediow and James A. Skinner, 32, all of Kansas City, police Detective Ed
Glvnn said.
Glynn said. The three were arrested Saturday with a 22-year-old man who was released Sunday after questioning. Glynn said.
Survivors of the fire said a feud with a man who allegedly ran a drug house near the home that was heavily damaged in a pre-dawn fire Friday could have been a motive for the arson.
Police Sgt. Gregory Mills said a window of the home was broken and gasoline poured inside to
ignite the blaze, which spread quickly up the stairs to the second floor where all six victims were found
Preliminary reports said the six victims, who represented four generations of the family, died of smoke inhalation. Two of six other people who escaped were hospitalized with injuries.
The victims were Velma Coleman, 76; Nila Phillips, 59; Tricia Phillips, 19; Jason Addison, 3; Courtney Addison, 2; and Mark Sanders Jr., 6 months.
Arafat rejects plan by Israel
The Associated Press
BAGHIDAD, Iraq — PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Sunday rejected a proposal to grant Palestinians limited self-rule in the occupied territories and hold elections to choose peace negotiators.
"It it不 worth the trouble to reply to these proposals, which have been rejected even by Palestinian children," Arafat told a group of reporters as he attempted to get out of the bottleneck in which Israel has found itself."
The Palestine Liberation Organization chief was in Baghdad for a meeting of Palestinian leaders involved with the 13-month uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
A peace plan proposed last week by Israeli Defense Minister Dmitry Rabin calls for a period of limited self-rule for Palestinians in the territories, followed by a three-way compromise of Israel, Jordan and Palestine.
Rabin also said that if the Palestinians halted the uprising, they could hold elections to choose peace negotiators.
Other Palestinian leaders also have rejected the plan, which Israel said was Rabin's private proposal. Jordan's foreign minister, Marwan Kassem, also rejected it, Amman's
daily Ad Dustour reported Sunday.
Kassem was quoted as saying, "Israel is required to withdraw from the Arab lands they occupied in 1967, then to give the Palestinians an island in the sea to set up their Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."
He said the uprising would continue "until our people establish their own independent state with Jerusalem as its capital," according to a statement issued in Nicosia by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In Baghdad, Arafat accused Rabin of stepping up repression in the occupied territories in an attempt to halt the rebellion.
Last week, Rabin announced a policy that allowed troops to fire plastic bullets more freely at Palestinians setting up roadblocks and bullets also could be used for destroying the houses of suspected stone-throwers.
Arafat would he ask western European nations to play a greater role in Middle East peace efforts when he met the foreign ministers of Spain, France and Greece in Madrid, Spain, on Friday.
England's bird-lovers to celebrate
The Associated Press
LONDON — In a country where lovers of birds abound and sometimes travel all day to glimpse a rare, the 10th birthday of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is hardly a houm affair.
Victorian women founded the society in 1899 to combat the trade in bird feathers. It claims to be Europe's largest voluntary wildlife conservation group and second in the world only to the U.S. National Audubon Society.
British is named the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. She took time off this month to christen a new locomotive, The Avocet, after the wading bird that is the Royal Society's symbol, inaugurating an array of events centered on the Feb. 17 anniversary.
A century ago, the slaughter of egrets to provide white plumes for hats threatened the bird with annihilation.
"The trade was eventually stopped, thanks to those women and their pledge not to wear bird feathers," said Chris Harbard, spokesman for the society. "Killing birds for plumage is now totally outlawed in this country."
"It was quite a feat," he said, because London was the center of a $10 million annual fashion trade in the feathers of such birds as egrets, kingfishers, swallows, owls and birds of paradise from New Guinea.
Royal sponsorship was bestowed in 1904. The society now has about 450,000 adult members and 110,000 junior, employs almost 500 people, runs 114 nature reserves and handles the equivalent of almost $25 million a year in subscriptions, donations and legacies.
Why so much interest? "Because you can watch birds wherever you are, even in the middle of London, and not just pigeons and sparrows," Harbard said. "You can see kestrels hunting in the City (financial district) and great crested betes catching fish on the River Thames."
Grebes, prized by the gingery feathers around their faces, were down to their last 42 pairs in the early 1900s. Harbard said they number about 5,000 pairs because of conservation measures.
Britain has about 470 of the world's 9,000 bird species. Its most common is the blackbird, numbering about 15 million, and the most rare is the black redstart, of which only 50 pairs remain. The black redstart likes to breed at nuclear power stations.
Bird protection in Britain is centuries old but was introduced to save wildfowl for royal hunters. A 1534 law protected their eggs and enforced seasonal restrictions on killing the birds.
News Briefs
BHUTYO PLANS TRIP: Pakistani Prime Minister Benzaril Bhutto will visit China Feb. 11-14 on her first official trip abroad, the foreign ministry said yesterday.
dary.
Bhutto also may attend the funeral of Japanese
Emperor Hirohito on Feb. 24, but her plans are not
complete, said a ministry spokesman.
The spokesman, who by custom is not identified by name, did not give an agenda for the visit to China but said the prime minister would meet top leaders.
Bhutto had indicated her first official trip would be to China because of the traditionally friendly relations the two Asian nations have.
the two ICC officials.
Late President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq had planned to visit Beijing last May but canceled the trip after firing Pakistan's government.
DALI'S CONDITION UNCHANGED: Artist Salvador Dali did not respond to treatment and remained in very critical condition yesterday as workers began building his tomb in Figueras, Spain, the town where the surrealist painter was born, authorities said.
The 84-year-old Dali was suffering from heart and respiratory problems and pneumonia, Dr. Carles
Ponsati, head of Figuera Hospital and Dali's chief physician, said in a brief statement yesterday evening.
physical, said she had been no significant changes in Ponsani said there had been no significant changes in Dali's condition since he was rushed to the hospital four days ago.
four days ago
He said that Dali's illness was terminal and that he was not responding to treatment for the severe heart problem that was aggravated by pneumonia.
FESTIVAL RESURRECTS CLASSIC: Robert Redford's Sundance Institute has launched the 11th Annual United States Film Festival with a silent film.
Instead of opening the festival with a new independent film as in previous years, organizers resurrected F.W. Murnau's classic film "Sunrise" for the opening Friday.
The 1927 film was accompanied by a new musical score composed by the institute's music director, David Newman, and performed by the Utah Symphony.
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Newman's score replaced the film's original score,
which was lost.
Redford was on hand with about 2,000 filmgoers at Symphony Hall, but he did not speak
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