IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Teenage reading scores continue to decline 0 - NEW YORK- Reading comprehension among teenagers continues a skid started in the seventies, a report based on a survey of 109,000 students said yesterday. More boys than girls and more older than younger students have troubles understanding passages of printed words, said the report funded by the National Institute of Education. "More than a quarter of the teenagers said it is usually hard for them to finish a book they have started; a third said it is usually hard keeping their minds on reading," said the report. Polish army attacks Solidarity's crisis plan WARSAW, Poland- Poland's army declared yesterday that Solidarity's plan for resolving the nation's crisis "is loaded with a sizable explosive charge." Lech Walesa, the independent union's leader, raised the possibility of violence if the government takes action against strikers. Walesa told a rally of striking coal miners in Sosnowiec, "A solution by strength does not come into consideration, but it cannot be excluded ... When they come, we will hang on to their rifle barrels, and we will direct them to another side." His remarks, distributed by Solidarity's information service, were con- sidered a significant departure from the conciliatroy language he has used in the past week, as representatives of Solidarity and the government prepared for negotiations tomorrow on the country's social and economic ills. State Senate bans Great Lakes drilling LANSING- The Senate overwhelmingly approved yesterday three bills effectively banning oil and gas exploration equipment from Michigan's Great Lakes bottomlands. The three bills, which some lawmakers said were merely "symbolic gestures," were sent to the House on a series of 28-1 votes. Under the bills sponsored by Senate Democratic Leader William Faust of Westland, no oil and gas exploration would be allowed in Lakes Michigan, Superior, Erie, and Huron. The petroleum lying beneath those lakes could be extracted by directional drilling from equipment located far up on their shores. Jewish settlers protest Palestinian guerrilla trial NABLUS, Occupied West Bank- Jewish settlers cried for vengeance and fought troops outside a court yesterday after the prosecution did not ask the death penalty for four Palestinian guerrillas convicted of killing six Jews. Fistfights broke out between troops and settlers after the prosecutor asked for life imprisonment for the defendants. Soldiers seized one protester and dispersed others when they tried to mob the defendants' defense attorney, who escaped unharmed. "It hurts me to see these terrorists alive," said Brandl Klein, mother of a 20-year-old settler killed in the May 1980 ambush in the village of Hebron. 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