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Bush praises Solidarity; offers to take Walesa plan to Paris summit

GDANSK, Poland (AP) President Bush today made a dramatic pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Solidarity labor movement and told cheering thousands their struggle had produced “a time when dreams can live again.” “For those who say that freedom can be forever be denied, I say let them look at Poland,” the president said in the emotional climax of a two-day visit. “POLAND IS NOT alone. America stands with you,” he said, renewing his pledge to provide assistance for Poland’s economic reform. The president was introduced by Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, who said he hoped the visiting American realized “our country should and deserves to be helped.... God Bless America. May God bless our homeland,” Walesa said. Bush made the trip to the Solidarity Workers Monument outside the main gate to the Lenin shipyard after a private lunch at Walesa’s home. The president said Walesa had asked for private investment assistance in their talks. “I can give strong support for that standing right here in his yard,” Bush said. ON MONDAY, Bush had outlined a program of slls million in U.S. aid and proposed easier repayment terms for Poland’s $39 billion international debt. He'said he would take Walesa’s call for private investment to the economic summit starting Friday in Paris, and “we’ll see where we come out.” Bush was departing Poland later in the day for a two-day visit to Hungary, another Communist country in the throes of extraordinary political and economic reform. He then travels to Paris on Thursday for the economic summit,

Forty percent jump in Soviet crime rate brings cries for more money

MOSCOW (AP) The government doesn’t spend enough to fight crime, which is up 40 percent this year, the top Soviet law enforcer said in appealing for funds to raise salaries and put more and better equipment on the streets. Interior Minister Vadim V. Bakatin told the legislature, or Supreme Soviet, on Monday that his department, which runs the na-

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PRESIDENT BUSH No wheelbarrow of dollars followed by a trip next week to the Netherlands. SHOUTS OF “Welcome President Bush!” rang out and hand-held American flags fluttered in the air as the president arrived at the monument to Polish workers killed in an uprising in 1970 during the birth of the labor movement. Thousands lined the route of his motorcade, then massed at the monument to hear Bush’s pledge to stand with Poland. Bush stressed that hard work and sacrifice are still ahead for Poles as they try to rebuild their economy. But his main message was one of help and hope that their 40-year struggle first against the Nazis, then against Communist suppression will realize the “ancient dream” of freedom. “TODAY THE WORLD watches the inevitable outcome of that struggle. Today to those who think hopes can be forever suppressed, I say, let them lode at Poland.” “It is here in Poland where we can work to end the division of

tional police, doesn’t have the resources to stop crime. HE SAID THE economic problems and moral decay that are unwanted byproducts of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reform program had contributed to a 39.9 parent rise in serious crime when compared to the first half of 1988. Adolescent crime has risen 22 percent so far tins year and unreported crime is growing at three or four times the rate of recorded crime, he said. “Unbalanced development in the economy, politics, social and moral spheres is inevitable in the transition period,” Bakatin said. This “in turn provokes tension, shortages, social injustice and stimulates crime.” THE UNITED STATES spends SIOO per capita on police, whereas in the Soviet Union, the figure is sl2, he told the lawmakers. Bakatin spoke shortly before the 542-member Supreme Soviet voted to retain him as interior minister, a post he has held since October. He was subject to confirmation along with nearly 60 other officials appearing before the new legislature, which has rejected several candidates for the Supreme Court and Cabinet. Many Soviets are afraid to walk

LECH WALESA Asks for $lO billion Europe. It is in your power to help end the division of Europe,” Bush said. “The people of Poland can show the world what a free people with commitment and energy can accomplish.” Walesa and the crowd seemed reluctant to let the president go. He urged Poles to stay in their country and help with rebuilding, rather then emigrate as so many thousands have done over the years. “Stay with us. Stay with us,” came back the reply. In advance of their meeting, Walesa had been expected to press Bush for a $lO billion package of Western credits and investment guarantees for his beleaguered country, far greater than the slls million plan offered by the president. Bush has ruled out anything that large, and Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 said Monday no one really expected the president “to show up here with a big wheelbarrow full of dollars.”

the streets at night because of an increase in murders, muggings and rape. Shortages that have worsened steadily under economic reforms have created a demand for stolen goods that spurs on robbers. GORBACHEV HAS acknowledged that the restructuring he initiated since coming to power four years ago could lead to more crime. At the confirmation hearing, Gorbachev said he had been impressed by the number of police he saw during a June 12-16 visit to West Germany. He said he was told there is one policeman for every 400 Germans. Bakatin said that in the Soviet Union there is one for every 588 citizens. The Soviet Union once kept crime statistics secret, claiming socialism was free of crime rampant in the West. “A theory was cultivated for many decades that crime here was considered officially a rudiment of social antagonism from exploiting societies which should die as socialism developed,” Bakatin said. “But it didn’t.” MEANWHILE, another government candidate up for legislative approval, Health Minister

Stealth bomber passes first test, delighting audience

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) At a barren desert highway intersection, an informal gathering of aviation buffs celebrated the B-2 stealth bomber’s first power tests with

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As the president’s motorcade arrived at Radziwill Palace for the dinner, demonstrators among 1,000 people outside could be heard shouting “down with communism” and “Jaruzelski must go.” In a toast to Bush, Jaruzelski said, “May our relations always feature mutual respect, confidence and friendly feelings.” Interviewed later on ABC News, Jaruzelski said he spoke with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev about the meeting and added that Bush’s visit was positive for future relations. “I really am heartened that the leaders of the two big powers are guided by the same intentions and I feel that this bodes well for the future,” Jaruzelski said. The general, who imposed martial law in 1981 to crush Solidarity and imprison its leaders, said union representatives now share responsibility with the government for Poland’s “destiny, its well-being, its position in Europe and in the world.” Solidarity representatives won nearly half the seats in recent parliamentary elections, and Walesa has not ruled out the possibility of running for the new, powerful post of president. Walesa, in an interview Monday, said Poland is making progress with its political freedoms faster than it is tackling its economic problems. He said he wants Bush “to help us make this correction” so that financial matters are addressed with the same emphasis as political affairs. Crowned by three crosses topped with anchors, the Solidarity monument commemorates the first three shipyard workers killed by government security forces during 1970 strikes over food prices that left 45 dead and 2,000 injured.

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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reforms don't help crime Yevgeny I. Chazov, told legislators the health system is in the “most severe crisis.” Chazov, who was confirmed, said about 63 percent of the country’s hospitals and 59 percent of its clinics are in substandard buildings, some 24 percent of hospitals have no sewage facilities, and 15 percent lack running wata. Chazov also said that the Soviet Union spends less money than any developed country on health care national product versus 6 pacent to 8 percent in the United States.

foaming beer and a rally round the American flag. For weeks, an assortment of people fascinated with the all-wing, radar-evading bomber from

CIA denies bungling ; Soviet defector’s case

WASHINGTON (AP) The Central Intelligence Agency says a defector from the Soviet Union’s KGB is free to go if he doesn’t like it here. In a rare public statement, the agency on Monday denied it had mishandled the case of Victor Gundarev, 49, forma security chief of the Soviet Embassy in Athens. THE CIA SAID it “welcomes an inquiry by the intelligence committees in Congress” into its handling of Gundarev. According to an article by David Wise in The Sunday New York Times, Gundarev defected from the KGB in February 1986. Wise, who has written extensively about the CIA, said Gundarev wrote him, “I came to the conclusion after three years in U.S.A that those people who would like to defect with the help of CIA should think twice,” and was seeking an interview at the State Department with Soviet officials to discuss going home. Wise compared the case to that of Vitaly Yurchenko, head of North American espionage for the KGB, who defected in Rome in 1985. Yurchenko retreated to the Soviet embassy in Washington less than three months later and held a specatular press conference to the embarrassment of the CIA. GUNDAREV, WROTE Wise, has written CIA Director William Websta that he and his wife and son were promised “a normal way of life as free citizens in a democratic country,” but his belongings were searched, his telephone tapped and his letters opened. “From the beginning they treated me as a dangle (a false

Karpov gives qualified support to U.S. arms plan

WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviet Union’s arms control spokesman says Moscow could accept Bush administration proposals for trial inspections of nuclear weapons systems as long as more weapons are covered, according to a published report today. Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Karpov, interviewed in Moscow by The Washington Post, also said the Soviets would consider limits on multi-warhead, mobile missiles. KARPOV SAID the inspections “should not prevent the normal development of negotiations in Geneva or be a precondition for work on the draft text and protocols. They should go hand in hand.” But Karpov said the Soviets want to include more weapons systems than were envisioned in the U.S. proposal put forward in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva last month for monitoring experiments while the negotiations are under way. U.S. officials reportedly have wanted to confine the experiments to silo-based missiles and mobile strategic missiles. Karpov, however, was quoted as saying cruise missiles and bomber bases should be included. THE FIRST monitoring should be of sea-launched cruise missiles,

Northrop Corp, have been turning up around sunrise, waiting in expectation of a glimpse of the costliest warplane in history. MONDAY, THEY were satisfied, when the approximately SSOO million-a-copy B-2 rolled ponderously from its secure hangar and taxied down the Air Force Plant 42 runway at about 100 mph. “It was an awesome sight to see,” said hot dog vendor Norm Masten as he offered up a breakfast frank and sauerkraut to a B-2 watcher. “If I were an enemy of this country and I saw that I would be shaking in my boots.” The sleek, manta-shaped strategic bomber successfully conducted taxi and engine tests for the first time, and in public view, stopping traffic on Sierra Highway, the main desert thoroughfare alongside Air Force Plant 42. AIR FORCE officials say more ground tests will be conducted this week, and first flight within the next two weeks. People at the intersection drank beer, sipped soft drinks and

WILLIAM WEBSTER Reneged on promises? defector), anotha Yurchenko, specially sent,” Wise quoted Gundarev as saying. The CIA statement said, “The allegation that the CIA invades the privacy of individuals, as described in The New York Times article, is false. So, too, is the charge of mishandling.” The agency said it and the FBI had tried hard to smooth Gundarev’s transition to U.S. residence, had resettled him in an undisclosed location and had paid him “a substantial amount of money” for his information. “AS WITH ALL individuals residing in this country legally, Mr. Gundarev is free to travel to any country he chooses,” the CIA said. Wise said Gundarev’s information had proved less than topnotch in some instances. John Bothwell, a former CIA agent and submarine captain, was arrested in Britain on the basis of Gundarev’s repot that Bothwell was an agent he ran, but charges against Bothwell later were dropped.

“one of the areas where the most difficult verification problems arise,” he said. He also suggested inspectors might visit each other’s cruise missile factories. Although the United States proposed continuous monitoring of entrances and exits of plants producing mobile strategic missiles, it has no such plants. Howeva, the Bush administration has proposed putting the 10warhead MX missile on rail cars and the proposed single-warhead Midgetman on mobile land transporters. KARPOV SIAD, “If we can have inspectors at production plants for the MX or the Midgetman, then we would be ready to have such a team at our plant” producing the multi-warhead SS-24, a mobile missile. Asked if the Soviets would consider banning or sharply limiting such missiles, Karpov said, “I think that can be considered.” He said the Soviet Union might also accept a ban on nuclear cruise missiles of any range, instead of numerical limits on the long-rangfc strategic variety it has put forward, “if we can find efficient means t 6 carry out the elimination of tactical nuclear weapons in a way that won’t harm U.S. and Soviet security interests.”

munched Brooklyn hot dogs with Coney Island onion sauce ladled out by vendor Masten from his Little New Yorker hot dog franchise. A large American flag whipped in the breeze from above the trailer as Masten fixed franks and dug deep for mustard, sauerkraut and pickles. Hundreds gathered at various times, wheeling in with motor homes, sports cars and HarleyDavidson motorcycles. CHIEF AMONG the watchers was retired Marine John MacWhirter, who had been out on the highway before dawn each morning for two weeks for a glimpse of the stealth from his yellow step-van, which was decorated with patriotic slogans, peppered with salty observations about actress Jane Fonda and Iran. “It looked like a Volkswagen with wings,” MacWhirter declared happily, adjusting his red USMC baseball cap. “It looks like Buck Rogers. It looks like Flash Gordon. I wouldn’t have any anxiety at all about it flying tomorrow.”