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Polish leaders
re-establish
marti*al
Warsaw, Poland (AP)- .Rioting
broke out yesterday in the Baltic port
city of Szczecin for the second day.
Authorities reimposed a night curfew in
Warsaw as well as other martial law
measures.
It was not immediately clear in which
other cities the restrictions went into ef-
fect, but the East German news agency
ADN said the curfew was imposed in
Warsaw, Szczecin and Gdansk.
Disorders in Szczecin, a provincial
capital about 15 miles from the East
German border, were announced in
Parliament by Interior Minister Gen.
Cieslaw Kiszczak in a review of Mon-
day's clashes between police and
Solidarity union supporters in Warsaw
and at least 13 other cities.
KISZCZAK SAID police detained
1,372 people during the rioting, and that
at least 72 police officers were injured
in street battles. The number of civilian
casualties was "still unknown," he
said.
"The most serious incidents took
place in Warsaw where police decided
to disperse aggressive groups," the
army general said. "The incidents
lasted until late night, and similar ex-
cesses were repeated today in Sz-
czecin."
The curfew in Warsaw begins at 9
p.m. for youths under 18 and midnight
for adults, the Polish news agency PAP
reported. Both end at 5 a.m.
Authorities also banned meetings of
student clubs, discotheques and all en-
tertainment, PAP said.
ON SUNDAY, the regime lifted the
curbs which were first imposed when
the military crackdown began last Dec.
13, but warned it would, not tolerate
street rallies and marches that began
with a counter-May Day parade here
and in other cities last Saturday.
Monday's protests, the most violent
since December, broke out in the
capital and across Poland during
Solidarity-sponsored demonstrations
law
marking the anniversary of the coun-
try's liberal 1791 constitution.
The scope of the disorders suggested
that the anti-government outbursts had
been coordinated.
NEWSPAPERS and other sources
reported disturbances Monday in War-
saw, Gdansk, Szczecin, Gliwice,
Wroclaw and other cities.
Police using tear gas, water cannons,
concussion grenades and glares fought
rioting unionists, their supporters and
youths outside Communist Party
headquarters here and the Parliament
as well as on a major bridge across the
Vistula river.
The Soviet Union, in its first comment
on the rioting, said the unrest was "a
desperate attempt by the opponents of
socialism to restore their lost
positions."
IN WASHINGTON, deputy White
House press secretary Larry Speakes
said, "We deplore the use-f force" and
added that the demonstrations were "a
reminder that the demands for free ex-
pression have not been met."
Telephone communications in War-
saw remained cut after lines went dead
Monday afternoon, but other channels
of communication operated normally.
Clean-up crews hastily cleared the
mess left here Monday night after more
than six hours of street fighting.
POLICE KEPT a low profile as War-
saw residents went about their business
Tuesday as usual.
In Parliament, a liberal deputy said
his colleagues should consider Mon-
day's events and react carefully.
"Parliament and government should
continue their policy of national accord
despite what happened," Deputy Jan
Szczepanski said.
Szczepanski, regarded as one of the
most liberal deputies, said that the
government should carefully delineate
between Solidarity and a political op-
position.
In Brief
Iranian leader dies in jet crash
ALGIERS, Algeria - Foreign Minister Mohamed Benyabia, who
mediated the release of the American hostages in Iran, has been killed in a
plane crash en route to Tehran to try to end the Iran-Iraq war. Iran blamed
Iraqi jets for the crash.
Benyahia, eight other officials, an Algerian journalist and the crew of four
died when their Grumman G-2 executive jet crashed Monday in northwest
Iran near its borders with Turkey and Iraq, an Algerian government
statement said.
In Washington, former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher
recalled Benyahia as a hero for the central role he played in negotiating the
January 1981 release of 52 American hostages from Iran. Christopher, who
represented the United States in the negotiations, said "I join the Algerian
people in mourning his death."
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said it would provide Algeria with a tape
showing tht the ar traffic control tower in Tabriz, northwest Iran, "instruc-
ted the Algerian plane to change direction toward Ankara in order to escape
the attack of the Iraqi fighters."
Soviets reject summit offer
MOSCOW - A senior Soviet official yesterday angrily rejected President
Reagan's offer to meet Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in June at the
United Nations, saying tpe Kremlin wanted a "prepared" summit in Europe
this fall.
"We are waiting for a clear and accurate reply from the American
president" on Brezhnev's April 17 proposal for an October summit on
neutral ground, said Yuri Zhukov, 74, a member of the policy-making Cen-
tral Committee and a political commentator for the Communist Party
newspaper Pravda.
Zhukov, speaking at a news conference' on Soviet "peace week,' said
Kremlin officials believe Reagan is weighing the 75-year-old Soviet leader's
suggestion for a summit in Finland or Switzerland, but that there has been
no official reply.
In Washington, deputy White House spokesman Larry Speakes said he
wished Zhukov's response "had been more positive."
Salvadoreans claim
American killed
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvadbr - Military officials and the U.S. Embassy
said yesterday they were checking a leftist guerrilla claim that an American
was killed while taking part in a guerrilla operation in the Morazan Provin-
c.
The guerrillas, in a broadcast by their clandestine Radio Venceremos,
claimed an American by the name of Joseph David Anderson, age and
hometown not given, was killed while taking part in a guerrilla operation
near the village of Peza Honda on April27.
It said Anderson had been traveling with the guerrillas since January 1981,
when the leftists launched their so-called "final offensive" against the
government. The guerrillas said the man had been in the country for 12
years.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said there was no one by that name registered
with the consular section.
Americans are asked to register with the embassy in El Salvador but
many do not.
Cina to reorganize government
PEKING- Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping clinched an important victory
yesterday by winning legislative approval to shape the central government
the way he wants in one of the biggest reshuffles ever in China.
Eleven vice premiers were ousted from office, and 23 new ministers were
appointed.
The shakeup announced by the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress packed the Cabinet-called the State Council-with
relatively younger and more professional people who back Deng's goal of
modernization. Deng supporters already in place were not touched.
The mass removal of vice premiers was intended more to streamline the
top government hierarchy than to evict political foes.
Prosecution begins in
Hinkley trial
WASHINGTON- Prosecutors told a jury yesterday the shooting of
President Reagan was a "planned, premeditated" act, and two law enfor-
cement officials "mowed down" in the attack testified in the case against
gunman John W. Hinckley Jr.
But Hinkley's attorney, setting out the insanity defense, portrayed the
sandy-haired product of a wealthy family as a loner who tried suicide in the
months before last year's shooting. He said Hinckley was consumed by fan-
tasies about movie actress Jodie Foster and the murdered Beatle John Len-
non.
In all, the prosecution called nine witnesses after the opening statements.
Hinckley's lawyers conducted almost no cross-examination. Adelman said
the government would rest its case after seven more witnesses tomorrow.
The defense, relying mostly on family and psychiatric testimony, is expec-
ted to take longer.
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