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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 13,1982
Most Polish martial law restrictions lifted Jan. 1
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Declaring Poles have “the worst behind us,” Gen. Wojciecli Jaruzelski promised to lift most martial-law restrictions by year’s end and hinted he will free detained Solidarity union activists. The announcement by the Polish premier and defense minister came in a nationally televised speech Sunday, the eve of the first anniversary of the sweeping military crackdown that effectively crushed Solidarity, suppressed 16 months of social upheaval and sharply increased East-West tensions. “The year which has passed was a great test. We have passed it,” Jaruzelski said. “We have got the worst behind us.” The general using the same clipped, precise language with which he declared martial law Dec. 13, 1981 said the “basic rigors” of military rule “will cease to function by the end of this year.” “The extent of martial law’s
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relaxation” will be disclosed at a meeting of the Sejm, or Parliament, later today, he said. “This will be a weighty step towards complete lifting of martial law,” Jaruzelski said. “It is simply impossible to jump into full normalization.” “I do promise one thing,” Jaruzelski declared, “Anarchy will not be allowed into Poland.” In a reference to the Solidarity underground organization, Jaruzelski said, “The enemy’s actions have not stopped ... So we cannot afford yet to renounce all the ex-
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tradordinary measures.” “No one in Poland or abroad should labor under any illusion that the current decisions will allow a further round” of social and labor unrest, he said. Solidarity was suspended when Jaruzelski declared martial law. Parliament enacted a new labor law Oct. 8 that outlawed the independent union, replacing it with smaller labor organizations under stiff government control. The martial-law chief said some measures to protect state security and the economy would remain in effect, but did not say what those measures were. He
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also said army officers would remain in major factories to prevent sit-down strikes. Many of the harshest martiallaw restrictions have been lifted, including a curfew, restrictions on telephone communication, bans on domestic travel and censorship of foreign news dispatches. A ban on public gatherings remains, and other long-range government controls have been implemented. Without giving a timetable, Jaruzelski said amnesty for interned Solidarity activists and martial-law offenders will be considered.
Pay later Those who buy now on credit face trouble after Christmas
By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer Today’s gifts can turn into tomorrow’s debts if you’re not careful with your Christmas shopping. “In general, people are very responsible in managing their credit, but the probability that you could get in trouble is higher at Christmas,’’ said A. Charlene Sullivan, the associate director of the Credit Research Center at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. Ms. Sullivan said most people carry around several credit cards. If you spend to the limit on all the cards, “you’re going to be in big trouble after Christ-
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mas,” she said. Ms. Sullivan noted that more than a dozen states have recently raised the maximum allowable interest rate on credit cards; a few states have eliminated usury ceilings completely. “With higher rates, financial institutions may make more credit available,” she said. Higher interest rates could leave consumers owing more than they expect. But the increased charges also could motivate people to pay their debts more quickly. Ms. Sullivan said about 40 percent of people who use charge cards do not incur any
Louisiana residents go home
TAFT, La. (AP) Many of the 17,000 people evacuated for 32 hours because of an explosion and fire at a Union Carbide Chemical plant wasted little time going back home. “They wouldn’t even wait for their red beans and rice,” said Irma Green, a St. Charles Parish worker at one of six emergency shelters set up for the 3,000 people who couldn’t find a place with relatives or friends. “We had lunch almost ready for them, but these people were ready to get out of that school and get back to their homes,” she said Sunday. The evacuees live on both sides of the Mississippi River
Canadian Chrysler strike ends
TORONTO (AP) - Chrysler’s 10,000 Canadian workers began returning to work today with a new, richer contract won by a five-week strike that company chairman Lee lacocca says cost the beleaguered automaker SIOO million. “It’s sure good to have it behind us and get back to work,’’ Chrysler Canada spokesman Walter McCall said. McCall said some maintenance workers were called in late Sunday night to get assembly lines ready for the morning shift at all six Canadian plants.
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interest at all; they pay their bills, in full, each month and use the cards for convenience rather than credit. She also said that fears about the economy and unemployment have led people to restrict their use of credit and said that the increase in outstanding consumer credit so far this year generally has been lower than the increae in consumer prices. “More and more people who you wouldn’t expect to be losing their jobs are worried,” Ms. Sullivan said. “When your job looks uncertain, borrowing against future income can be pretty risky.”
within five miles of the plant, where a 65,000-gallon tank of the chemical acrolein exploded about 12:30 a m. Saturday and ignited a second tank. The chemical is used in tear gas and herbicides. Worried about a potential cloud of deadly gas from the superheated chemical or a chain-reaction explosion in eight adjacent tanks, authorities ordered the evacuation four hours later. Marine traffic along a 10-mile stretch of the Mississippi River, halted during the blaze, was restored Sunday. The tanks burned all day Saturday, occasionally spewing flames up to 70 feet in the air.
The new pact was ratified Sunday by an overwhelming 7,753,787 votes. Each of three categories of workers voted “yes” by at least 85 percent. United Auto Workers union spokesman reported. U.S. Chrysler workers are scheduled to vote Thursday and Friday on their new contract, negotiated along with the Canadian agreement. The 42,300 American workers did not strike. Chrysler Canada’s two biggest plants both in Windsor, Ontario, just across the Detroit River from Detroit
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MX dense pack plan scrubbed?
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan has all but formally abandoned the “dense pack” basing plan for the MX missile as he fights to win congressional approval to build the first of the new nuclear weapons. White House and Pentagon officials met with Senate Republican officials to try to come up with a compromise and head off a vote against buying the missile when the Senate takes up the defense spending bill today. The House last week voted down, 245-176, Reagan’s proposal to spend S9BB million to buy five of the giant weapons Reagan has named the “Peacekeeper.” But the House left nearly $2.5 billion in the measure to study the missile that is central to Reagan’s plan to modernize America’s nuclear forces. House members made clear they didn’t like dense pack, which would bunch the missiles in a 20-mile-square area near Cheyenne, Wyo., on the theory that incoming Soviet missiles would knock each other out. Dense pack also has
Figures from the Federal Reserve Board show that the annual rate of growth in outstanding consumer credit during the third quarter of 1982 was 2 percent, down from a 4 3 4percent growth rate in the second quarter. Extensions of consumer credit during the July-to-September period equaled 15.1 percent of disposable income, down from 16.3 percent in the previous three months. How can you stay out of trouble? “A good rule of thumb to keep from overextending yourself is to limit the total monthly payments required on credit
No injuries w’ere reported. Air quality monitors detected no poisonous gas and by 6 a m. Sunday, the fire was out. After three helicopter tours of the area. St. Charles Parish officials announced that the evacuation would end at noon Sunday. Union Carbide’s assistant plant manager, Lee Goodson, said the exact cause of the accident may not be known for several weeks. “The fire began as a result of a reaction that occurred in the tank,” Goodson said. “That reaction proceeded in generating temperature and pressure such that, from what we can see, the tank ruptured.”
produce 688 cars and 432 trucks a day, McCall said. The auto plant is the only source of such large cars as the Chrysler New Yorker and Dodge Diplomat. McCall said he did not have a figure for Chrysler’s losses from the strike. Some industry analysts have estimated the loss at about sls million a week for the No. 3 automaker, and lacocca was quoted over the weekend as saying the shutdown cost about SIOO million. The impact of the strike was felt most powerfully in Windsor, where 80 percent of Chrysler Canada workers live.
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numerous Senate critics, who say they have the votes to defeat the procurement money. But Reagan, seeking a compromise, last Friday urged production approval and said he was willing to look at other basing plans. “Next year as we have more time, I’d welcome a vigorous debate on the best way to base the missile,” the President during a brief Oval Office news conference. “If the Congress wants to debate and discuss and see if there are possible other options that could conceivably be improvements over this, we’re willing for that.” “There’s plenty of time to decide” on a basing plan, Reagan said in his weekly radio broadcast Saturday. “What we need now is a clear, positive vote on the missile itself, to go forward on production.” The president says the missile is needed to make the Soviets bargain for arms control. If Congress refuses the buy the weapon, “we move a major incentive for the Soviets to stay at the (bargaining) table and agree to (weapons) reductions.”
obligations (not counting mortgage payments) to 15 percent of monthly after-tax income,” Ms. Sullivan said. Keep track of the number of credit cards you’re using. The minimum payment required on each one may be small 20—but the total can add up You may be heading for problems, Ms. Sullivan said, “when you find yourself borrowing from one source to pay another source.” Ignoring bills from creditors who won’t push you in order to pay those who WILL take action is no solution; you'll only wind up deeper in debt over the long term.
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