The Michigan Daily-Thursday July 16, 1981-Pige 3
PARTY SHAKE- UPS, UNPRECEDENTED P0WERSTR UGGLE
More change in Poland

From AP and UPI
WARSAW, Poland - Seven can-
didates, including four pro-Soviet hard-
liners, will challenge incumbent
Stanislaw Kania for the job of Polish
Communist Party leader in an open
power struggle unprecedented in the
East bloc, party officials said yester-
day.
Party sources said eight names, in-
cluding Kania's would be submitted to
delegates at the special Communist
Party congress that - in another un-
precedented move - is to elect
Poland's top leadership by secret
ballot. The congress opened Tuesday.
IN ANOTHER startling develop-
ient, Poland's emergency congress
expelled former first secretary Edward
Gierek and five associates from the
party, the official news agency PAP
reported early today.
The first step toward expulsion of

Gierek, former Premier Edward
Babiuch and the other four associates
was taken last week when the Central
Committee recommended a review of
their party membership.
Gierek was ousted as party chief in
September, 1980 after last summer's
labor unrest. He and the former top
party officials expelled with him, all
removed from their jobs long before the
congress, have been blamed for
decisions leading to the nation's current
economic and political crisis.
THE EXPULSIONS followed a
lengthy discussion of a report prepared
by a special party commission headed
by Politburo member Tadeusz Grabski,
a hard-line critic of party leader
Stanislaw Kania. Officials said yester-
day that delegates voted 1,455 to 33 to
place Grabski's report on the agenda,
in what some observers interpreted as

a potential threat to Kania's leadership.
Official sources said the election of
the party leader by majority vote may
not occur until tomorrow. They said the
delay could weaken Kania's ability to
steer the congress down a moderate
path that would satisfy internal
demands for reform without angering
the Soviet Union.
Soviet-bloc news media yesterday
criticized demands for reform at the
congress. But they made no mention of
the secret ballot decision, which was
announced by the congress spokesman
Wieclaw Bek.
Late yesterday, the congress' second
day, Vice Premier Mieczyslaw
Rakowski made the first direct attack
on orthodox party members, saying a
"blood bath" could have been the alter-
native to accommodating the country's
labor unrest.

Girek
... ousted from Party

Man held
in Florida
accused
of spying
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)-A man
said to have led a double life as a U.S.
Army warrant officer and an honorary
colonel in the Russian army was
arrested yesterday on charges of
selling top-secret coding information to
the Soviet Union between January 1963
and July 1964.
Joseph George Helmich, 44, who has
been working as a tile installer, was or-
dered held in lieu of $500,000 bond after
U.S. Attorney Gary Betz told a federal
magistrate that Helmich had attained
the rank of colonel in the Soviet army.
HELMICH, 44, identified as a native
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was charged
with one count of conspiracy and three
of espionage, including charges that he
sold various coding manuals and
equipment to the Soviets for $131,000.
Conviction on each count carries a top
penalty of life in prison.
Helmich, a reddish-blond man of
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Waiting for the season opener
Relaxing after a friendly game of touch football, Steve Gilbert, a camper at the University's sports summer camps,
chooses a seat among the thousands of other empty ones in Michigan Stadium.

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Falwe 11's
battle with
Penthouse
boosts sales

ROANOKE, Va. (UPI)-The Rev. Jerry Falwell's
battle to keep the March issue of Penthouse magazine
off newsstands boosted sales of the sexually explicit
magazine, generating $500,000 in extra revenue, a
Penthouse sales official said yesterday.
BobCastardi, Penthouse newsstand sales director,
said the controversy involving printed interviews
with the founder of the Moral Majority increased
sales of the magazine by 200,000 copies, at $2.50 a
copy.
"IT WAS AT least an extra 200,000 copies, and it
probably would have been more if the entire
magazine industry hadn't been very soft then," he
said ina telephone interview.
Falwell unintentionally generated publicity for
Penthouse when he tried to prevent distribution of the
March issue by claiming two freelance writers sold

interviews with him to Penthouse after promising
they would not give the material to "smut"
magazines.
THE WRITERS, Sasthi Brata and Andrew Duncan,
have said they made no such promise.
The increase in sales was substantially less than
the 500,000-copy windfall predicted in February by
Bob Guccione, Penthouse publisher, but still marked
the first time Penthouse could pinpoint a boom in
sales to a story in the magazine, Castardi said.
He said newsstand sales of the March issue were 5
to 6 percent more than he expected, with 78 percent of
the 5.6 million copies printed for newsstands sold in
addition to the 300,000 copies mailed to subscribers.
A spokesman for Falwell said yesterday the
broadcast evangelist would have no comment on the
matter.