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ORT WAYNE, Ind. < AP) Santa Claus has visited International Harvester Co. the past 16 years, but if he enters t e ? ort Wayne plant this year, security guards have orders to oust him. Harvester officials say the company’s traditional St. Nicholas (in reality Kenneth A. “Tinv” Rodenbeck) has drawn complaints about his behavior. They also apparently are concerned Rodenbeck may slow plant production if he masquerades as St. Nicholas' Wednesday. the last working day before Christmas. Rodenbeck, 45, is a rotund jovial man with a booming voice and a hearty laugh reminiscent of the fabled saint from the North Pole. Since the mid ’6os, he has dressed as Santa and

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ridden around the Harvester plant on the back of a motor scooter, he said. Winding his way through the plant, he waved and joked with workers, emitting a frequent “ho-ho-ho," he said. But a memorandum issued Dec.ls to “all plant protection personnel,” stated: “In past years, Tiny Rodenbeck, Department 40, has played Santa Claus throughout many of the company facilities, however, this year it has been directed that this practice will not be permitted. In view of this, plant guards are directed to forbid entry of any person dressed in a Santa Claus costume. In additioon, if any Santa Claus-costumed person is found in the plant, he-she should be immediately

‘\ was kidnapped/ Walesa tells press

By JOHN KIFNER c. 1982 N.Y. Times WARSAW, Poland Lech Walesa, who was detained by the authorities Thursday to prevent him from delivering a speech, said Friday that he planned to continue to fight for his outlawed independent trade union, “but only by peaceful means.” “The time for watching is over,” Walesa told a group of foreign journalists. He had not made any public statements since the martial law authorities released him from 11 months of internment, saying he was “no longer a threat.” Walesa had planned to make an address at the monument outside the gates of the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, on the anniversary of the deaths of workers shot by the authorities as they protested food prices in 1970 and of the dedication of the monument to their memory by the Solidarity union two years ago. But at midmorning, two black limousines pulled up in front of his housing project building and carried Walesa off. More than 40 journalists approaching the area were held by the authorities for several hours and special riot police saturated the area around the shipyard preventing any demonstrations from forming.

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“I was kidnapped,” Walesa said. The union leader told foreign journalists who visited his home Friday that he had been taken first to the finance department of the municipal offices in Gdansk to answer questions about the finances of the local union organization. The official press had carried articles in the past few days contending there may have been fiscal chicanery in the union. The men who came to get him. he said, carried crowbars in order to break into the apartment. but did not use them. Walesa said he was driven around and around the ring road linking the Baltic Sea ports of Gdansk and Gdynia for the rest of the day until he was returned to his apartment at about 7:30 in the evening. Speaking of the officially sanctioned labor organizations the government plans to set up at the beginning of the year, Walesa said, “The new unions in their present form do not interest me.” Walesa said he wanted to press for independent trade unions, but only in a “peaceful way, the way of partnership and understanding." “We shall win for sure, but we must not fight," he said.

OPEC won't cut oil prices

VIENNA. Austria (AP) Citing the continuing world oil glut. OPEC’s Market Monitoring Committee is recommending the oil cartel freeze its $34 a barrel benchmark price throughout 1983. “The market in 1983 will not be better than what it was in 1982," committee chairman Mana Saeed Otaiba told reporters today. "The situation is not as good as some of us thought.” But, he insisted, “There is no room to talk about cutting the price of oil. This is out of the question." Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates oil minister, also suggested OPEC peg its overall output to demand in 1983. But he

escorted to the main gate.” Roger Bartholow, Harvester’s manager of human resources, said Thursday he made the decision a year ago to stop Rodenbeck’s Santa impersonation because of “several complaints” which he declined to discuss. T wouldn’t want to embarrass him (Rodenbeck),” Bartholow said. Rodenbeck says he’s not bothered by reported complaints about his Santa routine. He said Bartholow told him some women were embarrassed by his behavior as St. Nick. “I might put my arm around her and say, ‘How ya doing, sweetie? Want to ride in my sleigh?’ It was never anything vulgar,” Rodenbeck said.

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A man who soared 16,000 feet in a lawn chair hoisted by 42 helium-filled balloons has been notified that he broke federal law and faces penalties of at least $4,000. Truck driver Larry Walters of Long Beach, Calif., was told Friday that his July 2 flight violated at least four sections of the Federal Aviation Act, including one prohibiting operation of a "civil aircraft for which there is not currently in effect an airworthiness certificate." Walters 33, soared some three miles before descending safely by puncturing the balloons with pellets fired from an air pistol. (AP Wirephoto).

said his committee would not make any specific proposal on production ceilings. Otaiba said the committee's recommendations will be presented Sunday when the 13 oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries convene their annual year-end meeting. The UAE envoy said he personally thought overall OPEC output should be set at between 18 and 18.5 million barrels a day, but he emphasized the committee was not making any specific production proposal. OPEX officials here have said the cartel’s current daily output is slightly over 19 million barrels.

Otaiba’s comments came as the oil ministers resumed informal, behind-the-scenes bargaining today in a bid to work out problems. Earlier today. Venezuela's oil minister sounded a call for compromise in the frayed ranks of the oil cartel and said his country would be willing to cut its oil production if other members would do the same. “We know' times are difficult, but we have to prove that OPEC can work under difficult circumstances,” said Humberto Calderon Berti. “We are ready to reduce production if w*e find the others are also in the same position.” he said.

Senate adopts compromise on MX plan By STEVEN V. ROBERTS c. 1982 N.Y. Times .News Service WASHINGTON The Senate, working around the clock in an attempt to adjourn before Christmas, Friday adopted a compromise endorsed by President Reagan that would allocate the money to build MX missiles but prevent him from actually spending it until Congress approved. The president sought, and won, a provision that would force Congress to vote on the missile system this spring and not delay the matter indefinitely. On Wednesday the Senate Appropriations Committee passed a similar measure but left out the time limit. Reagan announced that he would name a bispartisan commission to study the controversial issue of how to base the MX before he made new recommendations to Congress. The Senate amendment on the MX was added to a stopgap spending bill, called a continuing resolution, that is needed to finance the federal government after it runs out of money at midnight Friday night. Lawmakers are expected to work through the weekend on the measure, but it faces the possibility of a presidential veto, and at least a nominal shutdown of government functions is possible on Monday. The main cause of the veto threat is the likelihood that Congress will include in the continuing resolution a multibilliondollar package aimed at creating jobs in the face of the country’s soaring unemployment rate. The jobs issue is one of dozens of matters acted on by the Senate in the all-night session. Once a bill is finally passed, it will have to be reconciled with the House-approved version in a conference committee that may start work on Satruday. By a vote of 50 to 46. the Senate Friday backed a $1.2 billion jobs package proposed by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield. R-Ore. The House has passed a $5.4 billion program sponsored by the Democratic leadership. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee, the majority leader, warned that inclusion of the jobs package was “highly likely to invite a presidential veto.” But lawmakers in both parties are eager to show their concern for the 12 billion jobless as the holiday season approaches. "These people are unemployed now.” Hatfield said, “andwe need to give them some symbol of hope.” House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. also mentioned the plight of the unemployed at Christmastime and urged Reagan not to veto the continuing resolution. "The time has come for compromise, not obstructionism,” he said in a statement. The Massachusetts Democrat said he had accommodated the White House by scheduling several of its favorite bills for floor action this week and added. "I am trying to cooperate with the president, but it is a two-way street.” The Senate went into session Thursday morning to consider a bill to raise gasoline taxes by five cents a gallon. When that legislation was blocked by a filibuster, the lawmakers took up the continuing resolution spending bill at 10 p.m. Thursday and worked on it into Friday evening. The continuing resolution is necessary because only three of the 13 basic appropriations bills needed to finance the government have been approved by Congress, even though the 1983 fiscal year is almost three months old. The bill contains many major decisions that could influence government activity for the rest of the fiscal year, and that is why so many lawmakers are taking so much time in offering amendments.. Some of the issues decided by the Senate in the last day included these: —The Senate voted 59 to 37 in favor of compromise language that would allow the Federal Trade Commission to regulate professionals if states did not act first. The American Medical Association and other professional groups have lobbied vigorously for an exemption from FTC jurisdiction, and their proposal passed the House this year. The issue will be settled in conference. —By one vote, the lawmakers retained funds to continue construction of the Clinch River breeder reactor, which is in Tennessee, the home state of the majority leader. Money for the project, which has been denounced as a wasteful case of pork barrel politics, was not approved by the House, and the conferees w ill try to resolve the dispute. —ln another narrow vote, the Senate agreed with the Appropriations Committee to allow federal workers to use health benefits to pay for abortions. The vote was another sign of the declining power of political forces that oppose all forms of abortion. The House bill contains a ban on the use of such benefits for abortions. —A move sponsored by Sen. Daniel Patick Moynihan, D-N.Y., to trim Senate staff levels by 10 percent was defeated, 68 to 25. —The Senate allowed to stand a committee amendment that would reimpose current limitations on Congressional pay. House members voted to increase their pay to almost $70,000 from $60,662, and the conference will have to resolve the knotty issue One possible deal would allow House members to increase their salaries and let Senators earn unlimited outside income while retaining their current salaries. The senators also fought off several attempts to trim the approximately $233 billion military budget included in the continuing resolution. Sen. Slade Gorton. R-Wash., proposed cutting $5.6 billion by slashing all functions except money used to keep the armed forces combat-ready. In the debate on the MX, which took place in the early morning hours Friday, the Senate defeated a motion by Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., to eliminate all funds to buy the missile.

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