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Page 8 The Battalion Tuesday, November 1, World/Nation Sp Classifieds Shipyard closing angers Walesa Enf A 'll/AM*TV9fl Stripes for Education OPENINGS NOW! If you have between 20 and 45 semester hours of accredited college credits, you may qual ify for a higher enlistment grade in the Air Force Reserve. To Find out more about our Stripes for Educa tion Program, contact your lo cal Air Force Reserve Recruiter. Jet Engine Mech Security Police Plus Many More Exdting Jobs Call: (512)369-1012 Or Fil Out Coupon and Mai! Today! To: USAF Reserve Recruiting 924 TFG/RS, Bergstrom AFB, TX 78743-5000 City, State, Zip_ Phone Prior Service. Date of Birth. AIR FORCE RESERVE A GREAT WAV TO SERVE WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An infu riated Lech Walesa vowed Monday to fight government plans to close down the Lenin shipyard, the site where the Soli darity trade union was bom. The state-owned shipyard in Gdansk is being closed down Dec. 1. It is the first big industrial plant to be singled out for closure by the month-old government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, who has pledged to get rid of unproductive and inefficient enterprises. The decision was announced while the shipyard was closed on the eve of All Saints’ Day and caught many workers and Solidarity activists by surprise. The yard reopens Wednesday. A longtime foe of Solidarity, Rakowski took office Sept. 27 with a pledge to restructure Poland’s aging in dustrial base and get the economy mov ing. In an interview with the BBC, he said the decision has nothing to do with Solidarity. The announcement came during an impasse in preparations for talks between representatives of Solidarity and the gov ernment, which had been promised to Walesa on Aug. 31 during the last strike at the shipyard. In an interview with The Associated Press, Walesa denounced the decision as Rakowski’s “personal provocation . . . against the birthplace of Solidarity.” Rakowski was a firm supporter of the Dec. 13, 1981, martial-law crackdown on Solidarity. Walesa, himself a worker at the ship yard, said in a later statement that “Soli darity will defend the enterprise, which is for the union and for the whole nation a symbol of the struggle for a new and better Poland.” The state-run news agency PAP said Rakowski on Saturday approved an In dustry Minstry recommendation to close the yard. It referred to the premier’s Oct. 13 speech when he presented his plan to parliament. Rakowski told the BBC that there is no other way. “If someone wants to make the Polish economy more healthy, he has to start with very strong steps,” he said. PAP said the decision should come as no surprise because the possibility has been discussed publicly for a long time. strikes in May and August, employs about 10,000 workers and was scheduled to build 11 ships this year. It constructs ships primarily for the Soviet Union for non-convertible currency. Articles in the press have questioned its financial efficacy, with one newspa per describing the Lenin Shipyard as a “giant on partly rotten legs.” A strike at the shipyard in August 1980 gave rise to Solidarity, the East bloc’s first independent trade union whose membership grew to 10 million before the union was banned in October 1982. But the yard has been in decline fe| more than a decade. In the late 1970s,j produced a high of 27 ships one year, Ail that time, its employment was moretk| 15,000. In July the yard’s director of foreigi trade, Ireneusz Kubiczek, said theyaij was not necessarily unprofitable andij chief problem was a lack of workforcei;| handle all its potential contracts. He said whether it was profitable t not was debatable, since it all dependel on the costs arbitrarily set by the statefcj materials, taxes and credit. Court to review Rakowski replaced Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner, who was criticized as ineffectual in reforming Poland’s inef ficient and debt-ridden economy. Since taking over, he has announced cuts in several government departments and allowed several independent groups to be legalized. But closing the Lenin yard is his first move to streamline Po land’s heavy industry. 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Varner has tentatively set a Dec. 21 court date, but at a hearing today he urged attorneys for both states and the Environmental Protection Agency to ne gotiate a settlement. Varner declined a request by attorneys for Chemical Waste Management Inc., operators of the huge hazardous waste landfill at Emelle in Sumter County, Ala., that the court require the state to post a $750,000 bond. A company attorney, Tom Wells, said the higher bond would cover expenses Chemical Waste Management has in curred in preparing the contaminated dirt for shipment from a Geneva Industries site near Houston. Scott said that Chemical Waste Man agement was not due protection from a bond. Varner earlier issued a temporary re straining order that blocked the sched uled shipment last month. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su preme Court on Monday stepped into a simmering feud between Congress and President Reagan by agreeing to review legislation limiting presidential authority to withhold classified information. The justices, in a case to be decided by July, agreed to consider reviving a “whistleblower” law decreed unconsti tutional by a lower court. The legislation was designed to restrain the president’s ability to keep national security informa tion from Congress. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who had breast cancer surgery 10 days ago at Georgetown University Hospital, was back on the bench as she and her fellow justices returned from a two-week re cess. The case involving classified informa tion, a sticking point for years between Congress and various presidents, will provide a new test of where to draw the line separating legislative and executive powers. The case stems from a national secu rity directive adopted by President Rea gan in 1983. The directive requires federal offi cials, before they are allowed access to classified information, to sign an agreement they will not disclose the in formation. 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The Best Program was created last year for 116 sixth-graders at Raines El ementary School, where administrators feared students from deprived neighbor hoods would be easy recruits for gangs and drug dealers. “We had a troubled group of sixth- graders last year, ’ ’ Raines Principal Ro salind Hambrick said. “They had low self-esteem, no self-motivation, home work was just brought in in a sloppy manner. I knew that we had to try to do something for these children before they got away from us.” “So we were looking for a counselor, a mentor, somebody, anything,” she said. “We knew that Frank Melton (gen eral manager) at WLBT-TV studios had done extensive work with gangs and troubled youth, so we called the studio and his secretary said we ought to talk with Dr. Yazdani. ’ ’ Nanolla Yazdani, a psychologist, was working with Melton on developing anti gang programs for the city. Yazdani had gained international publicity after de veloping a program for first-time, non violent offenders at the Misssissippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The prison program, which he no longer oversees, was patterned after Army boot- camp — right down to the spit-polished boots worn by the inmates and their rig orous regimen of calisthenics. Yazdani visited Raines Elementary and designed a program for sixth-grad ers. This summer, he trained teachers from 10 Jackson elementary schools on his program’s techniques. This spring, educators plan to expand the program to all sixth grades in the sys tem, 2,562 pupils. Youngsters must have parents’ permission to take part. Meanwhile, some teachers are already putting Yazdani’s techniques to work, like Sadie George, who oversees an af ter-school day-care program for pupils of all ages. Her students don’t march like Yazdani’s prison recruits, but they do sound out some strong cadences. Standing tall, heads erect and hands behind their backs, the youngsters repeat their rhythmic Best Program creed: “1 am somebody; I will never use drugs. “I am somebody; what my mind can conceive “And my heart can believe, I will achieve. “I am somebody; I will make you proud of me. “lam somebody; I will do my work “And I will love my fellow man, I am somebody.” The Best Program’s definition of be ing somebody includes the ability and willingness to do things for somebody else. Last year, the Raines sixth-graders held car washes, then used the earnings to take pizzas to deaf students at nearby Magnolia Speech School. The school’s four sixth-grade classes worked as groups on their fund-raising, but individuals are encouraged to daily share their knowledge with others. Part of their homework is living the Best Pro gram motto: “Each one, teach one.” Each child is helped to identify knowl edge and skills he can share, Hambrick said. To do their best, the children are taught to stick with a task until it’s com pleted, take criticism and think crea tively. Hambrick said she saw children disin-' terested in school become model stu dents after Yazdani’s 20-session pro gram last year. SI Last spring, sixth-graders scored an average of 6.5 in mathematics on the California Achievement Test, compared to 5.8 among sixth-graders at Raines the year before. In study skills, scores went from 5.8 in the spring of 1987 to 6.8 this spring, the principal said. A score of 6 is indica tive of expected sixth-grade work. TIC