Page 10-Tuesday, July 21, 1981-The Michigan Daily EMERGENCY CONGRESS ENDS AMID CRISES 4 C y s, o Poland enacts sweeping reforms From APand UPI moderates and took a series of un- "dramatic situation" and said "the years if they feel there have beer WARSAW, Poland-Poland's historic precedented steps, including use of the most acute sign of this is the lack of abuses of power. ommunist Party congress ended secret ballot. basic market goods and social In his closing speech, Kania said the esterday by approving a series of BUT THERE were no signs of any ef- dissatisfaction." action was in line with "socialis weeping democratic reforms unheard forts to weaken ties to the Soviet bloc, The 1,955 delegates ended their renewal"-the words he uses tc f anywhere else in the Soviet bloc. and there were many Polish assurances emergency meeting by voting to ap- describe his policy of conciliation. Emergency talks resumed at the of loyalty. prove a new party statute and other "Our main task is ... law-abiding or m to >t :o - same time in a bid to head off a pair of strikes later this week and avert a critical showdown between the gover- nment and the independent labor movement. , COMMUNIST Party leader Stanislaw Kania closed the party's precedent- breaking congress, declaring Poland must return^ to work to survive an economic crisis and must avoid "any test of strength, any dangerous con- frontations." Kania said the week-long congress-which saw the first secret- ballot election of a Soviet bloc leader-should "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt" to Warsaw Pact allies that the country was faithful to the Communist community. The emergency session, called to deal with severe economic and political problems that have brought sharp criticism from Poland's East bloc allies, strengthened Kania's corps of "We cannot live in our country under con- ditions where chaos exists." -Stanislaw Kania, Communist Party leader der," Kania said. "We cannot live in our country under conditions where chaos exists." THE REFERENCE to chaos echoed comments by Premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who warned 24 hours earlier the government was prepared to prevent any further labor unrest in the country. The Solidarity trade union plans to call 40,000 Baltic coast dockworkers on strike Thursday unless agreement is reached on guarantees for better working conditions. Employees of the state-run airlines LOT are scheduled to go on strike Friday to press demands for greater say-so in running the airline. Kania refused to dwell on the labor unrest, perhaps because the emergency talks resumed to try and avert both strikes. But he did say the time had come to stop "these forces which strive at confrontation with the party." 4 I The party is considering a set of proposed statutes that would allow religious believers to become party members. It elected its first female member to the ruling Politburo-Zofia Grzyb, a member of Solidarity, the first independent union in the Soviet bloc. "The congress has ended. We must go back to work," Kania said. "Outside the door of this hall we shall meet hard reality." HE DESCRIBED Poland as in a resolutions that reaffirmed many of the sweeping changes brought on by the past year of labor unrest and social upheaval. The statute provides limited terms for party leaders, ensures democratic election and reduces the overlap bet- ween party and state authority. IT ALSO provided an even greater system of checks and balances by em- powering delegates to call a new congress at any time in the next five 4 Counterfeiters turn to food stamp abuse 4 AMNLLL ALL Built in 1924, after the University President James B. Angell, Angell Hall has traditionally been one of the first buildings used for university classes. The Michigan Daily has also been a tradition since 1890. 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In the last month, he said, gover- nment agents have closed down food stamp counterfeiting operations in New York and California after buying $1 million in counterfeit stamps over a period of months. . "They had ties to organized crime," he told the Senate Agriculture Commit- tee at his confirmation hearing as the department's independent investigator for fraud and abuse. GRAZIANO SAID the quality of bogus stamps was very professional, again suggesting more than an in- dependent criminal operation. He said the burgeoning growth of the food stamp program apparently has at- tracted counterfeiters. Participation has soared from 10.5 million people in 1971 to more than 23 million earlier this year at an annual cost of more than $11 billion. "AS MORE and more people are in- volved with the program, the food stamp becomes more of a common type of currency and there is a greater op- portunity for exchange," he said. "We have found that food stamps are used as currency for everything from weapons... Interrupting that thought, Graziano rephrased it this -way: "We (gover- nment agents) have successfully negotiated the purchase of a home with food stamps. We are negotiating the purchase of an airplane with food stamps." "AT THE beginning, you could only redeem food stamps at the grocery store," he said. "People have learned there are other things they can do with food stamps." Graziano again urged the Congress to give Agriculture Department in- vestigators authority to carry firearms and make arrests. While the greatest dollar loss in the food stamp program is through recipient fraud, he said, coun- terfeiting and other organized criminal activities are the focus of much of the department's investigation. Two artists who came to the Fair Did not have much money to spare. But the League looked just right, And they said with delight, "Here's where we can dine with a flair!" Dinner 5:00 to 7:15 N.F. 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