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In the morning rush hour, angry miners parked about 100 cars on the Humber bridge in northeast En gland, blocking the main roadway to the port of Hull for three hours and causing a major traffic jam. Police said the miners overturned two patrol cars before the miners were dispersed. In northwest England, six people were arrested in clashes at a Lanca shire coal mine. Further south, five women and 21 miners were arrested in Wales when about 500 picketers, including 200 women, tried to stop a convoy of 130 trucks carrying iron ore to a steel plant. Police reported three people were injured, one seriously, when 600 strikers tried to stop workers enter ing the Bilston Glen mine near Edin burgh, in the second day of clashes outside Scotland’s biggest mine. On Monday, 600 stone-throwing miners charged police lines and mine buildings at Bilston Glen in the worst outbreak of violence lately. The strikers walked out March 12 to protest the National Coal Boards plan to close 20 mines and cut 20,000 jobs in an effort to streamline the industry. The surge of mass picketing and violence in the coalfields coincided with a renewed campaign by em ployers to get miners back to work. The National Coal Board placed full-page advertisements in several newspapers criticizing mine union leaders for refusing to make any concessions to end the bitter dispute, which has shut three-quarters of Britain’s 175 coal mines. Negotiations between the union and the coal board broke down last week, when union leader Arthur Scargill again made it clear he would never back down on the key issue of closing uneconomic pits. United Press International PEKING — Chinese police Tues day said a tough anti-crime cam paign, including the public execu tions of some convicted offenders, has reduced Peking’s overall crime rate by 51 percent so far this year. The anti-crime campaign was started last August. Foreign diplo mats and analysts in. Peking esti mated that more than 5,000 people may have been executed during the first seven months of the crackdown. Although Chinese officials have not disclosed the number of execu tions, a Western diplomat estinuttc at least 25 were carried out in Pekiif this month. “There have been four roundst* executions that I know of so farlhi year. This is the fourth group of people,” the diplomat said. “Alto gether this year, about 150 peopi nave been executed that we knoi of.” Many of the executions — usual a single bullet in the back oftheheaj — were carried out in public. Human rights organizations, in eluding Amnesty International.havt asked China to halt the executions. French leader says ‘modernize’ Laundry Facilities Pool Sun Deck 3200 PINFEATHER OFFICE HOURS 9-6 Mon.-Sat. 12-5 Sun Pinfeather ★ Welborn £ CO o CO z > *c J5 => > Near Shuttle Bus Club Room On-Site Security Phone 822-7321 NEST IN A TREEHOUSE! 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Prime Minister Laurent Fabius urged the lawmakers of all political parties to rally behind the Socialist government’s plan to restructure in dustry. “It is modernize or decline. The battle against unemployment must be waged on the basis of a modern economy,” Fabius said in his first speech to the National Assembly since President Francois Mitterrand named him prime minister a week ago. A number of lawmakers made speeches after Fabius’ comments, and a vote of confidence from the parliament was to follow. The com munists said they would abstain from the vote. The outcome of the vote was a foregone conclusion, since even without the support of the Commu nist Party the Socialists hold a com manding majority with 269 rep resentatives in the 491-member Parliament. The 45-minute speech drew jeers from rightist opposition lawmakers and scowls from the Communists, who withdrew from the government last week over Socialist econo* policy. The communists object to the So cialist industry modernization plan because it will eliminate 200,000jolis in state-owned industries at a timt when unemployment is alreadt above 9.5 percent. Mitterrand’s government wantslo phase out inefficient 19th-centun industries and establish modem high-technology enterprises to lift France out of its doldrums. The coal, steel, auto and ship building industries would behardesi hit. The government has developed elaborate programs to train dis placed workers in regions affected by the industry plan. General amnesty granted Poland releases prisoner United Press International WARSAW, Poland — Polish au thorities Tuesday said a senior Soli darity leader released from prison to visit his sick mother would be al lowed to remain free under a gen eral amnesty granted to mark the 40th anniversary of communist rule. Andrzej Gwiazda, one of seven Solidarity leaders jailed by the Polish government since martial law was imposed in December 1981, was re leased Saturday from a Warsaw jail but had been ordered to return to jail Tuesday. An official said authorities had decided Gwiazda, who was in Gdansk to visit his ailing mother, was covered by the amnesty and would only have to complete a “few admin istrative” formalities at the prison. The amnesty was passed Saturday by parliament to mark the 40th anni versary of communist rule in Po land, and authorities said it would cover 652 political prisoners and 35,000 criminal offenders. The first 82 prisoners — includ ing 10 political offenders — were freed Monday, the day the amnesty went into effect. The government has promised to release the rest within a month. Police maintained tight security around the Rakowiecka jail Tues day, keeping reporters away from the gates. Legal sources said Po land’s chief prosecutor gave orders that prominent Solidarity activists should be driven from the prison in police cars when they were released to avoid embarrassing publidty. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa and six other union spokesmen, in eluding underground leader Zbijj niew Bujak, issued a statement wel coming the amnesty hut demanding the restoration of full civil rights. “We express our gratitude to all those at home and abroad who gave their support,” the statement said. But, it continued, “Restorationo( social accords, the principle of union pluralism and civil rights are indis pensible conditions for leading our country out of its economic and po litical crisis. “Only then will a guarantee have been given that the amnesty is nota short-lived episode.” Bank: don’t speed devaluation United Press International MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s cen tral bank director said that sugges tions to speed up the^peso devalua tion would severely harm struggling companies just when the nation is slowly recovering from the economic crisis. Each day the government deval ues the peso by 13 Mexican cents against the U.S. dollar. Since the pol icy began in September, 1983, the peso has slipped in value from 150 pesos to the dollar to 188.75 to $1 Tuesday. Miguel Mancera, head of the Banco de Mexico, said Monday that accelerating the devaluation would raise costs for “the most depressed industries,” causing their sales to drop and leading to problems for the rest of the economy. “Certainly, it would not be wise to cause such large economic damage just to give a transitory advantage to exporting,” Mancera told bankers and finance officials at a meeting on the banking system. Economists say that Mexico’s cur rency was overvalued for many years, which led many industries to depend on then relatively low-cost imports for machinery, spare parts and raw materials. But the overvaluation also helped spark a flight of capital out of the country, because people were con vinced the peso’s strength against the dollar would not hold up. Mexi cans also took advantage of the fa vorable exchange rate to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars of products in the United States, either U.S. made or imported, founding them much cheaper than Mexican products. Capital flight became so serious that in late 1982 government leaders said the country had almost no for eign currency. Former President Jose Lopez Por tillo accused bankers of investing in the United States and other foreign countries, and on Sept. 1, 1982, W expropriated all the country’s pri vate banks. Central bank reserves hit $6.9 bil lion on Friday, a record for receni times, bank director Mancera said. Manuel Sanchez Lugo, the presi dent of the Mexican Banking Asso ciation, said bank deposits had in creased and by the end of the year could reach tne same level in real terms that private banks experi enced in 1981. 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