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THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 Page 7 world 1 terekhas ‘heart a ttack ’ United Press International Poland — A fierce power struggle pre- ng the maltel said the Cll ise if the J| >sLiiV?S arsaw - ^ 00 „ veiinjr y. ;e( ^ c ^ Stanislaw Kania’s selection as Communist Party Moscow f t .y Saturda y to replace Edward Gierk, who was spent bvB eC ^ ^ 0r tRe econom * c policies that put Poland’s work- liee custodtS 011 a co H ision course with the state, diplomatic ources said. ’ Hania, 53, was elected unanimously by the 116- rt hearing, neniber Central Committee in a midnight session, an bald spot ’fflcial announcement said. er’s headulBierek, 69, at first held tenaciously to his position as s in 1962.fta recent wave of strikes rippled across Poland, history ofbi iparked by demands for labor and political reform. But irren Conn hsK r >P began to slip when he lost his power base in the radconsidei iouthern coal fields, where miners joined the strikes, [her, then? 1 lfl' s authority was further weakened when his best treatment riend and relative, the former head of Poland’s state Revision, was embroiled in a multi-million dollar jmbezzlement scandal. ver, he hadJ|jOntrary to the habit of new party leaders, Kania has ,eer“spi rot made an address to the nation to disclose his prog- .i t B> and a speech he made at the Central Committee months oil#® 8 - - Kania the talk jMting has been kept secret. , , Observers and diplomats interpreted this as a sign of tcri'd thi'p. n | hting at the tQp ® ven Moscow, in a puzzling delay, waited 16 hours ife Hire sending Kania a congratulatory telegram signed Hoviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Hccording to official accounts, Gierek was removed rom office after suffering a heart attack early Friday. But diplomats and observers said they believed nei :ent Gierek’s supposed illness was “political” — a face-saving way of removing him from office. They noted the statement describing Gierek’s condi tion was nearly identical to the one that ushered in the downfall of his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, fol lowing similar but less wide-spread labor strife 10 years ago. A veteran of 35 years of party work, Kania, the former locksmith from a village in the south was made a mem ber of the Central Committee in 1971 and elected to the Politburo — the party’s inner circle of power — four years later. To ordinary Poles, the change at the top was unlikely to mean much. “The party rules above our heads,” shrugged one Polish journalist. Observers said Kania, who is considered somewhat more liberal than the hardline Gierek, was unlikely to depart from existing policy or to take back the conces sions that the government gave to workers to end the crippling strikes. These included the rights to strike and to form inde pendent labor unions — rights unprecedented in a Communist state. Beyond that, Kania was still too much of an unknown to predict how he would face the new facts of Polish life. A compromise candidate acceptable both to the Soviets and to the hardline and liberal wings of the Polish Politburo, Kania is seen as an “apparatchik,” a product of the party apparatus. Hostage debate may begin Poles’ new leader virtually unknown United Press International Until he was chosen to replace ousted Polish leader Edward Gierek, Stanislaw Kania was virtually unknown to most Poles — a quiet mid dle-of-the-road official who stood close to the inner circles of power, but never in the spotlight. Official biographies of him reveal only that he is 53 years old and was a locksmith before entering politics 35 years ago, quietly working his way up through party ranks. Observers said Kania’s elevation to the top party job appeared to be a compromise — a compromise between the hardline and liberal wings of the Politburo and, perhaps more importantly, a compromise with Moscow. Among his colleagues he has a reputation of being more moderate than Gierek, but still to the right of the liberals who were one of the prime forces behind the decision to oust Gierek in the aftermath of the Polish labor strikes. Like most things about Kania, his attitude towards the strikers who won unprecedented concessions from the Communist state was not immediately known. But observers said they believed he would not go back on the agreement the government reached with the strike leaders. They predicted he would not depart radically from either domestic or foreign policy as they were practiced by the ousted Gierek regime. Before his appointment, Kania had been responsible for internal security and the police. He kept Poland’s militia-police force out of the labor unrest and observers said that may have contributed to the decision to elevate him to the top. A man who had stayed in the shadow of Gierek and other high- profile party leaders, Kania was made head of the Central Committee’s administrative department in 1968, and entered the inner circle of power with his appointment to the politburo in 1975. He evidently has the full support of the Party’s Central Committee, which said it had endorsed his choice by unanimous decision. USED j GOLD | WANTED! § Cash paid or will swap for Aggie Ring | Diamonds. | W diamond brokers international, inc. ^ I 693-1647 Please, no plated, layered or gold-filled items as their precious metal content is minimal. rong andoj if difficulties disturbs me, e answered, is heard latelj i the gravel ^collect soiiit jeen forgotta )ne: One ke was a conuts sat was going that they tb i stolen. Nm neral, 1 reed ttorneys wk the body* carnival shot ridiculously, n. Butitniadf y evil people capable of» for moneyi 1 months afa a call from iat it was very® ^^■jphinese teachers in U. S. »15”7eating Cantonese first unit any lint j United Press International :1 help it. 1®*H0SHEN, lud. — Eight teachers arthis. Tlml®Hi China were delighted by the id 1 dontf Hie jam they ran into on their way xisted. Tal; Hoshen College but, recalling the >n, 1 strong' ftnerican meals they had on their nlity of tk“Hit t 0 the United States, they de- t to rule ve to ansivcf be benefii >r Robert 0: United Press International A committee of the Iranian parlia- nent met Saturday to make prepara- ions for the long awaited debate on herfate of the 52 American hostages, jow entering their 45th week in cap- ivitv. Hhe meeting of parliament’s fore- ! Tn relations commission was the rst sign that the assembly was get- ing ready to begin its hostage debate yince Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini marged it eight months ago with de- nding the outcome of the now 308- lay-old crisis. . Tehran Radio said only that the :ommission met to discuss “the rrphlems of the hostages and prepa- ations for a debate on the issue in an (pen session of Parliament.” No de- ails were disclosed and no date for he debate was mentioned. But there were indications the de bate may finally be close to starting. The Islamic hardliners who control the parliament had said they could not begin to consider the hostages’ fate until a prime minister had been chosen - now selected - and a cabinet was formed - close to completion. The radio said Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai has selected 15 cabinet members who were approved by President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and who will now be sub- mitted to the parliament for swearing-in. Once parliament approves the cabinet, the hostage debate can be gin. Most of the deputies, clerics and other hardliners who belong to the powerful Islamic Republican Party controlled by Bani-Sadr’s rivals, have said they favor putting the hos tages on trial as spies. Both Bani-Sadr and Ghotbzadeh have said the hostages should be freed. However, Bani-Sadr has only limited influence and Ghotbzadeh has virtually none. Both men, moderates by the stan dards of the Iranian revolution, have criticised Rajai as a total incompetent who has no idea how to run a govern ment. “What is extremely important is to end the confrontation with the Un ited States. We have to resolve this problem, get rid of this problem, in order to have Europeans and Third World countries on our side. As long as we have this problem of the hos tages they are not on our side — they are not even indifferent or neutral,” Ghotbzadeh said in an interview broadcast Friday. 3 ALTERATIONS 5 IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS "DON'T GIVE UP — W£LL MAKE IT FIT!" 7 AT WELCH’S CLEANERS WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HARD TO FIT EVENING DRESSES. TAFtERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS. WATCH POCKETS. ETC (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER) cided to eat their first dinner in the country at a Cantonese restaurant. The group will take a course at Goshen on teaching English as a foreign language. In exchange, 20 Goshen students and faculty advisers are in China for seven weeks. 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