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Caidinal's death
mourned by
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Thousan-
ds of Polish mourners filed past the
casket of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
yesterday while church and Solidarity
officials planned a funeral Mass in Vic-
tory Square, where the cardinal and
Polish-born Pope John Paul II
celebrated an historic Mass two years
ago.
Despite a steady rain through the
day, workmen completed digging a hole
in which to place a 40-foot-high cross for
the outdoor funeral Mass Sunday.
THOUSANDS ARE expected to at-
tend the Mass in the square, the size of
a large city l1qk and site of the Polish
army's regular changing of the guard
ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier.
The cross and altar, to be placed a
few hundred yards from the tomb, are
similar to those elected when the Pope
and Wyszynski, the Polish primhate
whom John Paul called his mentor,
celebrated Mass before some 80,000
people in June 1979.
Wyszynski, the 79-year-old spiritual
leader of Polish Roman Catholics, died
Thursday of cancer at his Warsaw
residence.
FOR MANY in Poland, where80 per-
cent to 90 percent of the 36 million
population are Catholic, he symbolized
the Polish church's struggle through
years of Stalinist repression to gain a
major role as a moderating force in
past months of labor turmoil.
In his last months, Wyszynski served
as an adviser to the independent trade
union Solidarity formed following last
summer's strikes - and was con-
sidered a voice of moderation by. the
Polish government which had held him
under house arrest for three years
during the Stalinist 1950s.
His funeral Mass will be only the
second religious ceremony held in Vic-
tory Square during Poland's post-war
communist history, following the Mass
said by Wyszynski and the pope during
John Paul's triumphant return home
after his election to the Holy See in 1978.
REPRESENTATIVES of the church
curia, civilian engineers and the in-
dependent trade union Solidarity met to
work out details for the Mass, including
how to direct the thousands of Poled ex-
pected to crowd the square. Polish
television and radio are to broadcast
the funeral Mass live.
In the rain outside the seminary
church where Wyszynski's body lay in
state, thousands of Poles waited in a
half-mile-long line to pay their last
respects.
A funeral procession from the
seminary church on Krakowskie Pr-
zedmieszie, or "King's Road," near the
reconstructed royal castle in Warsaw's
old city, will precede the Mass.
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
IRA hunger strikers
to run for Parliament
BELFAST-Four IRA hunger strikers and five other IRA convicts in
Belfast's Maze prison will run for election to the Irish Parliament, their sup-
porters announced yesterday.
The new political ploy, possible under Irish election laws, was disclosed as
police and troops again clashed with rioters in Catholic districts of London-
derry.
A group supporting the Irish Republican Army said nine IRA inmates at
Maze prison, including all four hunger strikers, would run as candidates for
the Irish Dail (Parliament) in the general elections June11.
Meanwhile, in the latest violence, police said a shop and a library were
badly damaged when rioters set them alight with gasoline bombs.
Police search for gunman
in murder of executive
TULSA, Okla.-Police investigating the country club slaying of Telex
Corp. founder Roger Wheeler sought help from other agencies yesterday in
their search for a gunman, described by witnesses under hypnosis, with
possible ties to organized crime.
A police detective said officers were investigating known-professional
gunmen resembling a bearded man who shot Wheeler Wednesday as the
Telex board chairman sat in his car after a round of golf at Southern Hills
Country Club.
Detective Stanley Glanz said the slaying could have been a bungled rob-
bery, a kidnapping or extortion attempt or an assassination "for some
reason." Wheeler was carrying a large amount of cash and expensive
jewelry, but the items were not taken.
According to Glanz, the police questioned under hypnosis eight club em-
ployees and members who saw the gunman and a driver flee the scene in a
copper-colored Ford LTD.
Carrier Nimitz returns to sea
after fatal deck crash
NORFOLK, Va.-Navy officials said yesterday that the $2 billion USS
Nimitz could resume it's training course after finding no damage to a
catapult plane launcher.
The carrier's skipper, Capt. Jack Batzler, said his only real concern had
been about the ship's No. 2 catapult-the device that helps planes reach take-
off speed. But Navy officials said Friday it seemed to be working well
enough to get the ship off as scheduled.
The Nimitz will resume a Caribbean training cruise that started May 15
and was halted just before midnight Tuesday off the Florida coast when a
Marine EA-68 Prowler came down off center and smashed through rows of
parked planes.
Fourteen men-11 Navy men on deck and three Marines on 'the
Prowler-were killed, 48 were injured and some 20 planes were destroyed or
damaged.
Meanwhile, the Navy has started two separate investigations into the ac-
cident. One investigation board, made up of people from the ship and the air
wing with a couple of outside officers, is trying to determine exactly what
happened and why, and how to preventsimilar tragedies.
In addition, a legal investigation will try to determine who, if anyone, was
at fault and if any charges are warranted, said an Atlantic Fleet spokesman.
Chinese stateswoman dies
of leukemia at 90
PEKING-Soony Ching-ling, widow of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern
China, died of leukemia yesterday at the age of 90. China planned a state
funeral for the rebel heiress of the "Soong dynasty" who backed the com-
munists and denounced her Nationalist brother-in-law, Chiang-Kai-shek.
Sun inherited her husband's revolutionary mission'and became a Chinese
national treasure, a symbol of cooperation with the Communist Party. On
her deathbed she was admitted to the party and appointed honorary chair-
man of the republic.
Brady improving in
struggle with pneumonia
WASHINGTON-White House press secretary James Brady is "doing
super-duper" under treatment for pneumonia; the latest complication in his
struggle to recuperate from a bullet wound to the head, doctors said yester-
day.
Brady's fever has "really come down dramatically" since he started
receiving treatment Thursday for pneumonia in his left lung, said Dr. Den-
nis O'Leary, a spokesman for George Washington University Medical Cen-
ter.
O'Leary said Brady, 40, is now "doing super-duper."
"His clinical course is very good so far," O'Leary said.
FDA bribery charges
investigated by House.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A drug
company lavishly entertained two Food
and Drug Administration officials,
buying them expensive dinners and
making sure one of them always won at
the horse track, former employees told
Congress yesterday.
"It looks like bribery," Rep. Bob
Whittaker (R-Kan.), said of the
revelations that came out during a
hearing by the House commerce over-
sight and investigations subcommittee.
REP. ALBERT Gore (D-Tenn.),
called it "a systematic attempt to
corrupt FDA officials."
The subcommittee has been in-
vestigating since last year a 1978 FDA
decision to ban the use of salt tablets as
a means of disinfecting contact lenses.
The FDA has since lifted the ban, but
while it was in effect, American con-
sumers may have been forced to spend
$500 million for sterilized saline
solutions that are more expensive than
the salt tablet method.
TESTIFYING before the panel were
former employees of the Burton-Par-
sons Co., a firm that benefitted from the
FDA salt tablet ban because it had a
virtual monopoly on the saline solution
market.
The subcommittee released detailed
expense account vouchers showing of-
ficials of Burton-Parsons paid for trips
to the race track, dinners, and-other en-
tertainment for two FDA officials,
microbiologist Mary Bruch and Dr. Ar-
nauld Scafidi, an eye doctor.
The vouchers showed dinners, some
as high as $150 each, in such places as
Las Vegas, Chicago and New York, and
a $200 air charter to a race track in Nor-
th Philadelphia.
JOHN BRYOR, a former Burton-
Parsons employee, testified that fellow
employee Keith Whitham once told him
Bruch alwayf won at the race track
"regardless of what horse came in,"
because the company placed bets on all
the horses and the owner of the firm
handed her the winning ticket.
Gore said it appeared Bruch "was, in
effect, a guaranteed winner."
Whitham denied it saying Bryer was
either a liar or had a bad memory.
Whitham said he personally tried to
educate and inform FDA officials of
what the company thought were too
stringent standards for sterility in con-
tact lens solutions.
"I guess it was a little unethical," he
said.
Another former employee, Wallace
Stirling, said he took Scafidi to dinner
about 40 times, but denied the purpose
was to influence FDA decision making.