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January 20, 1982
Lech Walesa’s bodyguard
proud of his work, employer
United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — On
Saturday, Dec. 12, Lech Wale
sa’s personal bodyguard sat
down for an interview describ
ing himself and his relations
with his boss.
“If things go according to
Lech’s scheme,” he said, “every
thing will be peacefully re
solved.”
A few hours later martial law
cracked down brutally on the
Solidarity trade union and
Walesa was under house arrest.
Henryk Mazur is a rugged,
58-year-old sailor who was at
Walesa’s side from the early days
of the strike at Gdansk’s Lenin
shipyard in August 1980. He
was one of the inner circle
around Walesa and devoted 18
months to protecting the mus
tachioed union chief.
“All the union is, for me, is to
protect Lech,” Mazur said. “This
is my task, and I’m not con
cerned about anything else. I am
not interested in politics.”
Walesa has been under house
arrest in or near Warsaw since
he was flown from Gdansk in a
special plane before dawn on
Dec. 13. Before then, even with
in Solidarity, Walesa had ene
mies, Mazur said.
“He must have them. It’s a
game of struggle.
“There are those who were
pulled down (from power in the
union),” he said. “They are not
especially numerous, but there
are foes. But the grassroots are
for him, especially the working
people.
“Yes, they threaten they’ll
shoot him and me. I don’t pay
any attention to that. I am ready
at all times.”
Mazur said there were two in
stances when Walesa needed
protecting — incidents in Bytom
in the south and Bydgoszcz in
the north when there had been
attempts at physical attack.
He described Walesa as “a
man after one’s own heart” and
said he was like part of his
family.
“When he has finished we’ll
go fishing together,” Mazur
said. “He must be cool, I tell him.
When he says that the Russians
will come, I calm him down
saying that they wouldn’t. I say,
‘Nobody will come, don’t you
worry. Do you think they will
come to this mess and pay our
debts?”’
Mazur, a craggy man who sel
dom left Walesa’s side, said he
was not paid for his bodyguard
work.
“I don’t care about any hon
ors,” he said that day. “I don’t
care about being with a famous
man. It’s Walesa’s honesty which
makes me stay with him.”
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — At the
end of the year, reporters are
tempted to list things — best
movies, best dressed, top news
events. A favorite year-round
game among congressional
reporters is listing the best
and worst senators.
There are 100 senators,
and all are not considered
well-known or particularly
effective. But all of them are
the supreme commanders of
their own offices and usually
rank very high in their state’s
political hierarchy.
A senator who shuns the
limelight, introduces few bills
and often fashions legislation
through quiet compromise is
often considered less effective
than one who sponsors a lot of
bills, makes a lot of floor
speeches and has a position on
every issue from abortion to
zip codes. It is the proverbial
difference between a work
horse and a showhorse.
Their public images aside,
senators most often are consi
dered successful by how much
attention they pay to consti
tuent services and by how well
they divert shrinking federal
funds to their states.
Drawing up a list of 10 best
and 10 worst senators is too
broad an effort when ability
and incompetence do not fol
low the shape of a bell curve.
Narrower categories,
however, might be useful:
The best known to the pub
lic would include: Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz., Daniel
Moynihan, D-N.Y., John
Glenn, D-Ohio, Robert Dole,
R-Kan., Strom Thurmond, R-
S.C., Howard Baker, R-
Tenn., Henry Jackson, D-
Wash., S.I. Hayakawa, R-
Calif., and William Proxmire,
D-Wis.
Not including those elected
in 1980, the least known, in
descending order of anonym
ity: Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo.,
Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb.,
John Melcher, D-Mont., Carl
Levin, D-Mich., Max Baucus,
D-Mont., Howard Cannon, D-
Nev., Robert Stafford, R-Vt.,
Spark Matsunaga, D-Hawaii,
Quentin Burdick, D-N.D.,
and George Mitchell, D-
Maine.
The most entertaining
floor debaters: Alan Simpson,
R-Wyo., Daniel Moynihan, D-
N.Y., Joseph Biden, D-Del.,
Lowell Weicker, R-Conn.,
Dale Bumpers, D-Ark.,
Charles Mathias, R-Md., Ed
ward Kennedy, D-Mass., Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska, Howatf
Baker, R-Tenn., and Rober
Byrd, D-W.Va.
The nicest people wouldb l
elude: Alan Simpson, R-Wyo,’
Paul Laxak, R-Nev., Howard
Baker, R-Tenn., Patrkl
Leahy, D-Vt., Strom Thut
mond, R-S.C., Howell Helfi
D-Ala., Pete Domenici,
N.M., William Proxmire, &
Wis., Nancy Kassebaum, H
Kan., and Lawton Chiles,!!
Fla.
A list of those who crani
out the most press releases®
eludes: Kennedy, Dole, Pro*
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Dole together are known as;
“quick reaction team.”
The best in terms of com
bined intelligence, statesman'
ship, backroom dealing and
parliamentary tactics: Bab,
the majority leader, Alar,
Simpson, R-Wyo., Richard
Lugar, R-Ind., Alan Gran
ston, D-Calif., assistant minor'
ity leader, J. Bennett John
ston, D-La., Daniel Moynihan
D-N.Y., Sam Nunn, D-Ga,
Dole, Thurmond, Paul Tsoir
gas, D-Mass., and Howard
Metzenbaum, D-Ohio.
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run for the money
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WICHITA, Kan. — Cessna
Aircraft Co. has high hopes of
grabbing a large chunk of the
private business jet market away
from Learjet with its Citation
III.
With a $5 million pricetag,
150 Citation Ills are already on
order although the plane is still a
few months away from Federal
Aviation Administration certifi
cation. The first delivery should
be around December.
“It’s just one hell of an air
plane,” said J. Derek Vaughan,
Cessna senior vice president-
general manager. “There’s no
thing around that really com
petes with it.”
But the buyers will decide
whether they want to plunk
down their money for a Citation
III or its principle competitor,
the Learjet Longhorn 55. Lear
jet has delivered 20 of its Lon
ghorn 55 models already and
has orders for 150 more. The
Longhorn 55 is also priced at
about $5 million.
Cessna has already overtaken
Learjet in total numbers of busi
ness jets. Since delivering its first
Citation in 1970, Cessna has cap
tured 39 percent of the world
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But after years of producing
small prop-propelled planes,
Cessna still is working against
the name recognition that Lear
jet possesses.
“We’re still associated with
small, little airplanes, and it’s
been damn hard for us to outlive
that,” said Ted Farid, Cessna
technical sales support man
ager.
“The process has been a leng
thy one, getting the name ‘Cita
tion’ associated with business
jets,” Vaughan said. “But we
have a good product here. Once
the Citation III comes out, and is
in the air and in use, it’s going to
get a goodly share of the market.
When you have 15 or 20 of them
flying, that’s when it’ll strike
home to people it’s quite an air
plane.”
Touted by Cessna as the first
real “new” business jet in the
U.S. the past decade, the Cita
tion III has been five years and
over $200 million in the making.
The plane will fly 10 passen
gers and a crew of two at speeds
of up to about 550 mph for
2,320 miles. With a span of 53'/2
feet for the sweptback wings, the
Citation III will climb to 41,000
feet within 16 minutes and then
eventually cruise at 51,000 feet.
When it first hit the drawing
board in 1976, Cessna decided
to use some unconventional
aerodynamic ideas, such as us
ing a new “supercritical” wing
design and using composite
materials for some structures.
But perhaps the most daring
of the ideas was to substitute
most of the riveting with adhe
sive bonding — essentially glue
— to hold the skin to the metal
substructure.
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