Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 86, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 December 1981 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 17,1981

Army fears mass public gatherings

Striking Poles are warned of 'severe punishment'

By The Associated Press Poland’s martial-law regime, battling the workers with troop assaults on sit-in strikers and mass arrests, threatened “severe punishment” for anyone taking part in demonstrations today on the anniversary of a 1970 labor rebellion. Warsaw Radio broadcast warnings Wednesday night and again this morning against taking part in mass meetings it said were planned for the anniversary of the 1970 food riots in Gdansk. The army newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci warned that violations of the martial-law ban on public gatherings would bring severe punishment, the government radio said in a broadcast monitored in London. The leader of Poland’s powerful Roman Catholic Church, freaking his silence on the Communist government’s

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military crackdown, accused the regime of terrorizing the nation. “Our suffering is that of the entire nation, terrorized by military force,” said a statement issued by Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Polish primate, according to reports from Poland. Martial law “constitutes a blow ... to the hopes and expectations of society,” said the statement. “The uncertainty and powerlessness of the workers have caused emotions, bitterness, disgust.” The statement said that prisoners should be freed and that until they are, “they should have human conditions of im-

17-day garbage strike prompts New York health emergency

c. 1981 N.Y. Times NEW YORK - A health emergency was declared in New York City Wednesday in the 17-day-old strike against New York City’s private carting companies. Both sides, meanwhile, continued talks in an atmosphere of optimism. In an emergency session, the five-member board unanimously approved a resolution that termed the accumulation of garbage “conducive to rodent and insect infestation and fires and the spread of disease in and around the City of New York, thereby endangering the life, health and safety of persons residing or employed therein.” The declaration, requested earlier in the day by Mayor Edward I. Koch, allows the city to begin picking up 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage. The board’s decision came as

prisonment, for we know of numerous excesses concerning the imprisonment of certain people in cold places without warm clothing.” Reports from Poland said the church was engaged in highlevel talks with the Communist regime aimed at resolving the crisis. Pope John Paul II appealed for a “return to the road of renewal” in his native Poland, and said “the force and the authority of power is expressed in dialogue and not through the use of violence.” Although a government blackout on communications continued to restrict information on the situation, in

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the carting companies and striking workers intesified their efforts to resolve differences over wages, the key issue still to be settled, according to sources close to the negotiations. Bruce C. Mclver, director of the city’s Office of Municipal Labor

Poland, reports from various sources made plain that troops and riot police were invading major industrial plants held by sit-iun strikers protesting the suspension of Solidarity Sunday and the arrest of thousands of their leaders. Eyewitnesses reported that army troops backed by armored vehicles smashed through the gates of the giant Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, the birthplace of Solidarity, but were met by only passive resistance. As the soldiers marched in, leaflets signed by “Solidarity members” fluttered down from an upper-story window. “Do not resign. If we resign

Relations, said that all night talks had led to “considerable progress” in ending the dispute. “There is some optimism surrounding the talks,” he said. Mclver said bargainers for the 480 carting companies and the union, Local 813 of the Teamsters, resumed discussions late Wednesday afternoon. In issuing the health declaration, Dr. Margaret T. Grossi, acting commissioner of health and chairman of the Board of Health, said: “We feel the situation has worsened and warrants the declaration of a health emergency at this time.” Charles Reisberg, an assistant health commissioner, told the board that, despite city efforts, garbage is accumulating at the rate of 6,000 to 7,000 tons a day.

today, we’ll bury our hopes for freedom for many years to come,” the leaflet said. “We must fight for the freedom of those imprisoned. Several thousand people cannot destroy 10 million.” Most shipyard workers were released and told not to report back to work until Monday. They were reported debating whether to come back and strike again or return to work and sabotage production. Outside the yard, riot police used tear gas to clear a 500-yard area and prevent a demonstration called for Wednesday at the base of the Three Crosses monument honoring those killed in the 1970 riots.

world/state

Dismissal of license branch suit is denied

PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) - Two Democratic state representatives who have fought for changes in Indiana’s license branches for several years have won their first court battle. A circuit judge Wednesday overruled a motion by the Indiana attorney general to have a lawsuit filed by Reps. Darrell Felling of Terre Haute and Dennis Avery of Evansville dismissed. The suit seeks to force the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Commissioner Michael Packard to disclose information about the license branches. The attorney general is representing Packard and the BMV. During a 90-minute court

GOP will fight change in license branches

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Republican State Chairman Gordon Durnil says he and the state committee will work against changing Indiana’s license branch system. Durnil said during a news conference at GOP headquarters Wednesday, “The state committee will actively work against” change. He said he felt the “vast majority” of committee members would agree with his opposition. “I would work against it in the only way I can...express my opinion,” he said. Democratic Reps. Darrell Felling of Terre Haute and Dennis Avery of Evansville have sought unsuccessfully during the past

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Witnesses said what appeared to be a full armored division surrounded the Gdansk oil refinery where red and white Polish flags flew from the ramparts in defiance of military rule. But the troops reportedly did not move into the struck refinery. Defiant banners also flew over downtown Gdansk, the witnesses said. The government admitted trouble elsewhere. “There are unfortunately cases of work boycotts” in the Silesian industrial region, Poland’s official PAP news agency said. “This is meeting with firm counteraction.” Austrian Radio reported that

hearing, Deputy Attorney General Michael Schaefer said much of the information requested in the suit already has been provided. The rest of the information is not required to be kept and is not available, Schaefer said. Because of that, Schaefer argued, the suit should be dismissed. “There is no case for controversy,” he said. “The question is whether the statutes require these documents to be kept,” said Richard Adin, attorney for Felling and Avery. “He says they don’t exist. We don’t know that.” Posey Circuit Judge Steve C. Bach agreed there was a legal issue to be decided and set March 26 for a hearing on a request

Katowice, the chief center in the Silesian coal fields, had been declared a restricted military zone. Trying to drive the workers back to work, the government put the coal mines and other major industries under military control and Warsaw Radio told workers official orders were “equal to commands in the army during war.” It said failure to obey could bring penalties ranging from two years in prison to death. “Persons who do not show up for work are subject to court-martial,” the broadcast said. Warsaw Television claimed food plants were “working well,” and martial law was

for a summary judgment by the state. The fact that Bach heard the case in Gibson County is one example of the kind of political hot potato the issue of license branches has become. The suit originally was filed in Vanderburgh Circuit Court but was moved to Gibson County on the request of the state. Gibson Circuit Judge Walter Palmer was removed from the case also at the state’s request. The suit against Packard and the BMV is one of two filed by Felling and Avery contesting Indiana’s system of licensing drivers and their vehicles. The other suit claims the entire system is unconstitutional. No hearings have been held in

several sessions of the legislature to change the license branch' system. Under the system, the political party of the governor in power controls the branches and receives a commission of all sales. “What we’re getting down to is should there be any spoils to the victor, and I think there should be,” Durnil said. “We have a" system that’s not working badly. ” On another topic, Durnil said the state committee approved a' $1.7 million budget, paring $96,912 from last year’s budget. He said the party would use an intermediate Fiscal Review Committee along with the state committee to “make a serious effort to get this committee out of debt once and for all.” The panel would be made up of the state chairman, treasurer, Citizen’s Finance Committee chairman, a representative of the governor and campaign committee representatives because ‘ “campaigns are often accused of creating debt,” Durnil said. Durnil said the GOP’s $200,000 debt has been reduced to ‘ $65,000. ;

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producing “positive effects ” But it said the ban on gasoline sales to the public was continuing. Reliable reports from Warsaw said armed military patrols were beefed up as many people flocked to stores to buy Christmas decorations. In Paris, French labor leader Edmond Maire said Premier Pierre Mauroy told him he had learned from a diplomatic source there had been 45,000 arrests and nine people killed since Sunday. Warsaw Television listed more than 55 labor leaders and dissidents arrested, including dissident leader and Solidarity adviser Jacek Kuron.

that matter. The current suit seeks information about license branches such as the total amount of money they collect, how much of that money is returned to the state, how the money retained by the branches is used andcopies of contracts between the BMV and license branch managers. Avery and Felling have made unsuccessful attempts in several legislative sessions iq, change the license branch* system. Under the system, the political party of the governor in power, currently the Republicans, controls the bran-' ches and receives a portion of the proceeds from each.