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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, July 25, 1984
Slouch
By Jim Earle
“Do you think he'd mind if I tried to play it from his
front seat?”
Chinese police:
crime rate down
Miners
continue
violence
United Press International
LONDON — Coal miners on
strike for 20 weeks clashed Tuesday
with police for a second consecutive
day, overturning police cars and
blocking roadways and morning
rush hour traffic.
At least three people were in
jured, one of them seriously.
Police arrested at least 56 strikers
in violent incidents around the coun
try, bringing to 4,702 the number of
miners detained in the walkout.
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.
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United Press International
PARIS — France’s new Socialist
prime minister Tuesday told parlia
ment the country must either “mod
ernize or decline,” drawing jeers
from the rightist opposition and
scowls from the Communist Party.
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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