0 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, April 7, 1984 POLISH STUDENTS SCORE VICTOR Y Poland backs off on crucifix ban From AP and UPI. IN BRIEF GARWOLIN, Poland (UPI) - The Catholic church scor- ed a triumph yesterday in Poland's "war of the crosses," with communist authorities backing away from their ban against the display of crucifixes at a school outside Warsaw. Amid bitter student protests, the ban was imposed March 7 at a vacational school in the village of Miet- ne, where the authorities ordered crosses taken down from all walls at the school. RYSZARD Domanski, the school's headmaster, announced yesterday that crosses would be permit- ted in dormitories and in the school's main library. He refused to say whether the crosses would have to stay out of classroom walls. "We will display crosses in the classrooms as soon as possible," one student said. Domanski said students boycotting classes to protest the ban would be readmitted Monday and the authorities would stop demanding the students sign pledges to recognize the lay character of state schools. "A SOLUTION has been worked out that is suitable for all sides," said the headmaster of the 760-pupil school in Mietne, 40 miles outside Warsaw. "I con- firm that a cross will be hung in the main library." Students, who were in the nearby town of Garwolin to attend mass, issued a statement indicating acceptance of the new arrangement. "This morning we learned the good news from our headmaster who said the cross is returning to our school," they said. "We are also allowed to wear crucifixes." BISHOP JAN Mazur, who began a bread and water fast March 27 in protest against the ban, won a standing ovation from the students at the mass and announced he would end his fast immediately. The decision to allow crucifixes to be displayed at the library and the dormitories represented a triumph for the church in Poland, where the Roman Catholic primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, condemned the authorities for the ban. Glemp had said the ban offends the majority of Poles, 90 percent of whom are Roman Catholics. The ban also was criticized by Pope John Paul II and the leader fo the outlawed Solidarity Union, Lech Walesa, who declared Sunday that the union would use "every means" at its disposal to fight the measure. Cameroon coup may have failed PARIS (UPI) - Government forces loyal to Cameroon President Paul Biya yesterday crushed an apparent coup attempt believed staged by internal security forces and were "cleaning up" the last resisters in the African nation, Cameroon's official radio said. Communications were cut off to and from the nation on Africa's west coast early yesterday when intense gun bat- tees in the capital began, making reliable informaton difficult to obtain. OFFICIAL Cameroon Radio Yaoun- de, which appeared to have fallen into rebel ,hands when it began playing military music in the morning and then went off the air, returned to a jazz for- mat in late afternoon, indicating a return to normalcy. An unidentified person issued a brief announcement on Radio Yaounde late in the evening saying loyal forces were in control of the situation. The army was "cleaning up the last pockets of resistance" and citizens 'The army was cleaning up the last pockets of resistance and citizens should stay in their homes to avoid mishap.' should "stay in their homes to avoid mishap," said the announcement monitored by United Press Inter- national in neighboring Gabon. WESTERN sources said heavy ar- tillery and small arms fire were heard in the capital of Yaounde, and armored vehicles were seen heading to the president's residence before commun- ication links were severed. It was the second major upheaval in west Africa in three days, following a bloodless coup Tuesday in nearby Guinea by military officers seeking to fill a power vacuum left by the death of President Ahmed Sekou Toure. Biya's whereabouts at the time of the uprising were unclear. Initial reports said he was vacationing at a seaside resort when fighting broke out but other sources said he was inside the palace at the time. A FRENCH radio station, Paris Radio-3, which said it received infor- mation directly from Cameroon, and French diplomatic sources said they thought the insurrection was staged by members of the 500- to 700-member state security forces, called the gen- darmerie. The force operates separately from the 8,000-man army but both are part of an integrated military structure. Diplomats said the gendarmerie in the former French colony attacked ar- my troops, seized the coastal seaport of Douala and arrested army chief Gen. Pierre Semengue and two other generals in Yaounde. THE security forces apparently overpowered the army leaders and then moved on the radio station and presidential offices, the French sources said. Radio-3 said the gendarmerie drove four tanks up to the palace in a bid to capture Biya, who became president in an uncontested election on Jan. 14. But loyal army troops were able to surround and overcome the rebels, it reported. "Biya now controls the situation," the French radio said. Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports State's jobless rate declines; national figures unchanged The nation's unemployment rate leveled off at 7.8 percent in March, ending six months of steady improvement since last summer, the government reported yesterday. But Michigan's unemployment rate dropped slightly last month as the state's economy continued to improve, government figures showed. The Michigan Employment Security Commission said Michigan's seasonally unadjusted employment rate dropped from 12.6 percent in February to 12.5 percent in March, with 539,000 people out of work. Labor Secretary 'Raymond Donovan, putting the best face on the new national figures, noted that nearly 250,000 people found work in March, a sizable increase although much less than February's 700,000. Even with the jobless rate holding steady at the February level - because an increase in job-seekers nearly matched the number of new jobs - Donovan said thereportshowed "President Reagan's economic program is continuing to produce good news for the American worker." Floods terrorize Northeast Record floods produced by a slow-moving rainstorm flowed 10 feet deep yesterday through some suburban communites of the Northeast where thousands sought refuge in emergency shelters and other climbed to rooftops to escape the turbulent water. Rivers gorged by up to 5 inches of rain in two days surged as high as 7 feet above flood stage, blocing major highways in the New York City area and chasing at least 4,700 from their homes in northern New Jersey. National Guardsmen in boats and trucks helped rescue residents cut off by the rising water. "It's a disaster," said New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, who flew over the flooded areas in a helicopter. "There is no other word I can use. It's a very tragic sight.' As the storm that first moved into the area Wednesday pushed eastward, heavy rains also produced flooding into upper. New England. Flood warnings were in effect for southeastern New York, most of southern New England and inland areas of New Hampshire and southern Maine. Shuttle tracks crippled satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Challenger stalked a sun-study satellite through the trackless heavens yesterday, flying higher than ever before to make an in-space repair of an observatory too important and too expensive to lose. The first satellite rescue mission began only 57 one-thousandths of a second late with a liftoff as pretty as any of the 10 that preceded it. "You looked great going up the hill," said Mission Control. "The view from here is as spectacular as ever," replied commader Robert Crippen, the first astronaut to make three shuttle flights. Flight Director Gary Coen said, "The orbiter and the countdown went by the clock today, there were absolutely no problems in any of those areas." However, he said, the problem with Mission Control computers in Houston caused "intermittent tracking that began right at liftoff and continues right through the launch phase." Information was available from other sources, Coen said, and there was nothing to disturb the flight. Fires kill five in Baltimore; force evacuation of N.Y. offices An arsonist set a fire in Baltimore that killed three men and two women yesterday in second-story apartments above a striptease bar and grill in "The Block," a neighborhood of sleazy taverns and massage parlors, police said. A 50-year-old man who climbed naked from his bedoom to a narrow second-story ledge was rescued'by a fire l44der truck, but he suffered severe burns on-80 percent.of.his body ad wa in critical ,cgndition at Baltimore: City Hospital. Fire officials said the arsonist used a flammable substance to start the fire on the street-level building, either in the 408 Club or in the seperate entrance which led up tothe apartments. In New York, insulation ignited by a workman's torch spread smoke: through a 50-story skyscraper yesterday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of office workers and injuring nine people, officials said. Fire Commissioner Joseph Spinnato said fire and smoke spread rapidly through the 20th and 21st floors of the building on New York Plaza in lower Manhattan. The fire was controlled about an hour and a half after it was reported. Beirut fighting threatens peace BEIRUT, Lebanan - Lebanese militias battled each other with mortars: and grenades around Beirut's only remaining east-west crossing yesterday, dampening optimism raised by reports the factions were near agreement on a peace plan. The fighting, which rapidly spread across Beirut's southern suburbs, broke out eight hours after yet another cease-fire was declared at dawn. Mortar and rocket shells flew across the Green Line and disrupted traffic on the Museum crossing, a spokesman for the Amal Shiite Moslem militia said. The crossing is a 1-mile stretch of road through the Green Line dividing Christian east from moslem west Beirut. Druse Moslem radio said at least eight people were injured by mortal shelling in Ras el Nabeh, a Moslem neighborhood west of the line. Christian Phalangist radio said another civilian was wounded earlier in the day. "The army took over the Ejjeh building prompting our boys to clash with them and the police stationed nearby," said Amal spokesman Ali Hamdan. Saturday, April 7, 1984 Vol. XCIV-No. 150 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $15.50 September through April (2 semesters); $19.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $8 in Ann Arbor; $10 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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