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Solidarity calls
temporary halt
to strikespirotests
WARSAW, Poland (AP)- Under-
ground Solidarity leaders called
yesterday for a temporary halt to
strikes and street demonstrations. But
they threatened a general strike if
Polish authorities do not respond by
freeing interned union activists or
granting them the status of political
prisoners.,
Warsaw was quiet yesterday, the day
marking eight months of martial law.
There were no reports of strikes or
protests elsewhere in the country. On
May 13 and June 13, protests and riots
broke out as the sixth and seventh mon-
ths under martial law passed.
THE CALL for a moratorium on
strikes and protests until July 31 was
issued by four leaders of Solidarity who,
managed to avoid capture last Dec. 13
and have since operated underground
as the "temporary national coor-
dinating committee" of the suspended
union.
In two separate letters, the four ac-
tivists said they had three goals in
calling for the moratorium.
They said they wanted to demon-
strate "the strength, unity, discipline,
organizational efficiency andfresistan-
ceto repression" of the union.
THEYSAID they also wanted to per-
suade the authorities to grant either
political prisoner status or an amnesty
to the several thousand activists inter-
ned in December or arrested and sen-
tenced to jail since then for violating
martial law.
Finally, they said they hoped that the
moratorium would "contribute to the
worthy welcome to Pope John Paul II in
our country." Polish Roman Catholic
Church leaders are currently
negotiating with the government about
a possible visit by the pope to his native
land in August.
Favorable action by the authorities,
they said, might extend the
moratorium for a longer time. "But if
the authorities, for various reasons,
reject our initiative of agreement, the
union will be forced to reach for other
means of pressure again, including a
general strike."
"WE WILL never give up fighting for
returning to society its legal rights,"
they added. The Solidarity leaders
signing the letters were Bogdan Lis of
Gdansk, Wladyslaw Hardek of Krakow,
Zbigniew. Bujak of Warsaw, and
Wladyslaw Frasuniuk of Wroclaw.
The publication of the appeal coin-
cided with the second consecutive at-
tack against Polish dissidents in the
hard-line army daily, Zolnierz
Wolnosci.
The paper charged that "the op-
position is heating up anti-state moods
by organizing all kinds of shows.
"There are still people in Poland who
participate in this game. The
stimulation of internal unrest is coor-
dinated with outside pressure on
Poland," it said.
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Balanced budget amendment
will pass, O'Neill predicts
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D-Mass.), predicted
yesterday a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a balanced
federal budget will pass congress this election year, but he called it "a
cowardly way out."
O'Neill made his prediction to reporters as the Republican-controlled
Senate began a second day of debate on the amendment. A bipartisan group
of senators was working on a way to kill the measure.
Several senators were considering amendments, but most oppostion
seemed to be rallying behind a proposal by Sens. Charles Mathias, (R-Md.),
and Max Baucus, (D-Mont.), that would avoid amending the Constitution
and instead rely on a simple statute requiring a balanced budget.
Iran reports new attack on Iraq
TORONTO- Iran officially announced early today that its troops had
begun a military operation "to liberate Iraq," the Canadian Press news
agency reported from Iran.
A communique of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards and the joint staffr
command of the Iranian army, said the objectives of the operation,
codenamed Ramadan, were "to perfect the defence of the Islamic lands
(Iran), to prevent further Iraqi and other U.S. lackeys' aggression, and to
keep Iraqi fire at a distance from cities of the Islamic homeland (Iran)."
Vatican banks to
.undergo examination
VATICAN CITY- The Holy See took the highly unusual step yesterday of
calling in three international experts to examine the Vatican bank's dealings
with an Italian bank that is the center of a major financial scandal.
The action was taken apparently to blunt harsh criticism from the Italian
government and press of Vatican involvement with Banco Ambrosiano,
Italy's largest private bank.
It follows the mysterious death of the Banco Ambrosiano president,
Roberto Calvi, and allegations that he persuaded the Vatican bank to
guarantee $1.4 billion in questionable loans-for which the Vatican may be
held responsible.
The Vatican has never revealed the assets of its bank, one of three Vatican
financial institutions, and it has never before publicly announced calling in
outside experts to study the bank.
Stay of Haitians' release denied
ATLANTA- A federal appeals court yesterday denied the government's
request to stay an order requiring the release of 1,800 Haitian refugees held
in immigration detention camps in six states.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also said oral
arguments in the government's appeal of the lower court ruling would be
held at the earliest possible date.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service had said last week that
unless the government won its stay, some of the Haitians might start being
released within a few days.
The court action came after a daylong hearing at which a top government
lawyer argued that release of the Haitians would damage irreparably the
United States' ability to control its borders.
But a Miami attorney who represents the Haitians disagreed, saying there
is "no evidence whatsoever" that the nation would be damaged if the
Haitians are paroled.
The government asked the federal appeals court to stay a June order by
U.S. District Judge Eugene Spellman of Miami, who instructed the gover-
nment to release the Haitians from camps in six states. Associate Attorney
General Rudolph Guiliani said a stay would allow the attorney general's of-
fice to implement a plan for paroling the Haitians.
Air crash investigation continues
KENNER, La- Investigators seeking the cause of the nation's second-
worst air disaster studied statements yesterday from dozens of witnesses,
including a ham radio operator who said she heard the pilot radio a com-
plaint about sudden turbulence.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said they were skeptical of
the woman's account because no such conversation was found on tape recor-
dings made by the control tower at New Orleans International Airport.
But board spokesman Brad Dunbar said the woman and others were being
interviewed to corroborate information investigators hope to get from two
"black boxes" recovered from the wreckage of Friday's crash of Pan Am
Flight 759. All 145 people aboard the Boeing 727 were killed, along with eight
people on the ground.
In Los Angeles, meanwhile, the first lawsuit stemming from the crash was
filed in federal court. The suit, asking $70 million, was filed by Elaine and
Arthur Cunnings of Howell, Mich., who lost two daughters and three gran-
dchildren in the crash. The daughters were on their way to their brother's
funeral in California.
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Shultz endorses stronger
tieps with Arab world
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with the White House..
"The foreign policy we talk about is
the president's foreign policy," Shultz
said. "My job is to help him formulate
his foreign policy, along with others ...
He's the boss."
Not surprisingly, Shultz supported all
of the administration's foreign policy
actions to date, including the economic
sanctions against the Soviet Union and
Poland, the decision to sell defensive
weapons to Taiwan and the opposition
to a nuclear freeze.
Shultz has been president of Bechtel
Group, Inc., a major construction firm
with interests in Saudi Arabia, and
sought to assure the committee this
wouldhave no bearing on his policies
toward the Middle East. He didn't
respond to a request from Sen. Joseph
Biden (D-Del.) that he pledge not to
return to Bechtel after government
service.
HE DID say, however, he would sell
all of his Bechtel-related investments
and promised to remove himself from
making decisions in any matters in-
volving Bechtel
Shultz was secretary of the treasury,
during the Nixon administration.
IN ANSWER to a question, he
restated the U.S. pledge to Israel not to
negotiate directly with the PLO unless
the Palestinian group recognizes
Israel's right to exist.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,
surounded by an overwhelming Israeli
force, is seeking United States
recognition for his Palestine Liberation
Organization as his price for leving
Lebanon, Lebanese and Palestinian
sources said yesterday.
The sources, who asked not to be
identified, said Arafat would reverse
his current refusal to abandon Beirut
by sea, escorted by the U.S. 6th Fleet, if
the United States recognized the PLO.
"WE ARE fighting for that, to force
the United States to recognize us," said
Hani al-Hassan, Arafat's political ad-
viser. "I am sure that if there were
direct talks between the PLO and
American through U.S. pesidential en-
voy Philip Habib it would be a very im-
portant step for the PLO and the PLO
would be ready to be more flexible and
to rethink a lot of things."
Schultz said the Lebanese gover-
nment apparently has sent an official
request to Washington for U.S. troops to
help evacuate PLO guerrillas from
Beirut. The State Department's official
spokesman, Dean Fischer, said letter
that was not yet the case.
Schultz said he hopes U.S. troops, if
used, could do the job in 30 days but
there is still the problem of finding
another country willing to-/give the
guerrillas a home.
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