Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 45, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 October 1981 — Page 2

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One-hour strike nationwide Millions of Poles defy leaders, walk off jobs

WARSAW, Poland iAP)Millions of Polish workers defied Communist authorities with a one-hour, nationwide strike today and Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa said, "I want this to be the last strike of this kind.” The protest, the first nationwide strike in seven months, ended at 1 p.m., and most workers returned to their jobs. But miners in southern Sosnowiec said they would remain on strike indefinitely after men in a car hurled four bottles of chemicals at a mine pit, hospitalizing 61 men, women and children with bleeding gums, vomiting, tearing eyes and giddiness, union officials said. Authorities were investigating the incident, which took place Tuesday after a rally by Solidarity activists. Union officials said the victims were

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recovering. The independent labor federation called the one-hour stoppage to protest food shortages and to pressure the Communist Party into making it a partner in the management of the near-bankrupt economy. “We should find more effective protests which would help ourselves,” Walesa said at a Warsaw light bulb factory where 4,500 joined others in the 9.5 million-member labor federation on strike. The party Central Committee was to meet later today. Party officials said it might shake up the party Politburo and the Cabinet in the aftermath of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s replacement of Stanislaw Kania as party chief two weeks ago. Walesa proposed that Solidarity change its tactics, launching “active strikes” that would involve workers taking

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control of distributing goods rather than halting work. Millions of workers donned red and white armbands and hoisted the Polish flag as they marched off the job. The strike today was the first nationwide work stoppage since a four-hour strike on March 27 to protest police brutality in the town of Bydgoszcz. Millions of workers participated in that action. Jozef Pawliczek of the Kasprzaka radio workers in Warsaw said he was “not sure if this action would change anything. But my mates are striking and so am I.” The Communist Party mobilized a counterpropaganda campaign by the official unions controlled by it. The official news agency PAP distributed a statement from the hard-line Marxist-Leninist Forum in Walbrych, southwest Poland, which said: “Never

have we been so close to shedding fraternal blood as today.” The Soviet news agency Tass, in a Warsaw-datelined commentary, accused counterrevolutionary forces of whipping up tension and said Solidarity leaders were resorting to “blackmail” by strikes. In Washington, the State Department announced a contract would be signed today to sell Poland $29 million in surplus dairy products for use in a pre-school program. The department said payment would be in Polish zlotys rather than in Poland’s scant supply of dollars. It is the first American food shipment to Poland in the new fiscal year which began Oct. 1. The U.S. government supplied $741 million in food credit guarantees and assistance during the last fiscal year.

Brezhnev renews call for Mideast parley

c. 1981 N.Y. Times MOSCOW - Leonid I. Brezhnev Tuesday renewed and expanded his proposal for an international conference on the Middle East, adding representatives from Western Europe, North Africa and South Asia to the participants previously proposed. The Soviet leader spoke during a state dinner in honor of President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, who is in Moscow on an official visit. Since Yemen held off an assault two years ago by forces from Southern Yemen, whose government is Marxist and staunchly pro-Soviet, Saleh has turned increasingly to the Soviet Union to augment the

Waterproofing firm cited for false claims

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Pilot dies, passenger lands plane safely

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A 29-year-old businessman with no flying experience safely landed a small plane after its pilot died of an apparent heart attack. And although he says he was “real scared” at times, John Ussery adds he “never thought there would be a devastating crash.” Ussery took the controls of the Rockwell Aero Commander after Ellsworth Alexander Moore, 55, was stricken Tuesday, Little Rock police Lt. Ron Gatewood said. Ussery flew the single-engine plane some 60 miles to land at Little Rock’s Adams Field. He was helped by two flight instructors who heard his distress call and hurriedly brought a second plane aloft to fly beside him. They then advised him over the radio. Gatewood said Moore, of Hot Springs Village, Ussery, of Maumelle, and Ussery’s father-in-law, John David Boyd, 60, of Hot Springs, left Hot Springs airport on a pleasure flight, and as they neared Arkadelphia, Moore asked Ussery if he thought he could fly the plane. “Ussery thought it was a joke, and then Mr. Moore started coughing and passed out,” Gatewood said. He said Moore

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American arms supplied him through Saudi Arabia, his northern neighbor on the Red Sea. Diplomats here said Saleh’s goals in coming to Moscow probably included requests for more arms. They noted that one of the official welcomers at the airport, along with Brezhnev, was Defense Minister Dmitry F. Ustinov. Moscow’s advantage in welcoming the Yemeni leader, the diplomats said, included an opportunity to cultivate a potentially strategic friend and a chance to press the Kremlin’s campaign for influence in the Middle East. The proposal, as outlined anew by Brezhnev Tuesday evening, called for the United

junction to prevent Horsley Waterproofing from making allegedly false claims to its customers. It also asks the court to void any contracts with dissatisfied customers and to order refunds for them. Attorney General Linley E. Pearson said the suit is in behalf of 40 customers of Horsley Waterproofing who spent an average of $2,000 each for the

States and the Soviet Union to jointly preside over a conference attended by Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Arab countries bordering on Israel. In addition, Brezhnev said, “It could also be attended ... by other states that would represent the regions adjacent to the Middle East, say, Western Europe, North Africa and South Asia. ” Diplomats described the inclusion of the new countries as an attempt to broaden support for the Soviet proposal. There was also speculation that revival of the proposal at this time indicated a perception in the Kremlin that the assassination of Egyptian

company’s service. But he added there are probably other affected consumers who haven’t contacted his office. In the complaint, the consumer protection division said Horsley promised to waterproof a customer’s basement and gave a lifetime guarantee that it would remain dry. If the basement later showed signs of water leakage, the company

had promised Ussery a flying lesson that day, and had explained the plane’s instruments. Gatewood said Ussery flew the plane at about 2,500 feet after taking the controls, then “got on the radio and started calling for help.” “I wasn’t scared immediately,” Ussery recalled. “I knew I could hold it level and at the same altitude and that the gas tank was full. I thought about the possibility of a crash and wanted to find a smooth area to come down on.” Flying instructors Larry Cain, 33, of Arkadelphia and Joseph Ropp of Bismarck were in an Arkadelphia airport tower and answered the distress call. Ussery flew along Interstate 30, and as Cain and Ropp took off in a second plane, Little Rock Airport was notified of the emergency. Officials cleared air traffic in the area and brought out crash crews, ambulances and rescue units. The instructors told Ussery how to reach Little Rock, and then talked him through the landing. Cain said that in landing, Ussery “got a bounce out of it, but it was acceptable.” Efforts to revive Moore were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at the University of Arkansas Medical Center.

President Anwar Sadat provided new opportunities for the Soviet Union in the Middle East. Brezhnev’s renewed call for an international meeting was coupled with a sharp attack on the United States, “the socalled ‘strategic cooperation’ between the U.S.A. and Israel means blood, destruction and sorrow for the Arabs,” he said. He accused the United States of interfering in Egypt’s internal affairs and of endangering Libya by “saber-rattling” in the Mediterranean. Saleh’s visit here came a week after Soviet leaders welcomed Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO,

promised to provide additional treatment without charge. In reality, the suit contends, the waterproofing wasn’t of the quality claimed and Horsley didn’t honor his guarantees to provide additional treatment. 7Three of Horsley’s customers submitted sworn statements with the suit. Dale Graves of Roanoke said he paid the company $650 to waterproof his basement in 1979. After the work was completed, the basement began to leak. “Over the next two years, the problem became progressively worse,” he said. Graves said he tried to contact Horsley numerous times “but he would not return my phone calls.” Graves said he finally reached Horsely in June and he promised to correct the

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situation by July, but never did so. Peter Pascoe of Warsaw said he paid $2,310 to have Horsley waterproof his basement in 1978. The following spring, the basement began to leak. “Since that time, my basement has leaked repeatedly during the spring and fall seasons of the year,” Pascoe said. “Horsley has been at my home several times to do remedial work, but the problem has never been corrected.” Randall Rehrer of Fort Wayne said he paid Horsley $1,984 in November 1978 to waterproof his basement and received a lifetime guarantee for the work. “By June 1981, my basement began leaking so badly that it came to have about half an inch of water in it,” he said.