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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.
The century-old shipyard, the scene of
presidential power
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block shipment of 47,000 tons of PCB-
contaminated dirt from Texas to a toxic
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John Scott, an attorney serving as a
special assistant for Alabama Attorney
General Don Siegelman, said he did not
think the state would have any problem
complying with the order issued by U.S.
District Judge Robert Varner.
The judge gave the state a deadline of
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A spokesman for the Texas Attorney
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They would not be bothered if it went
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Varner has tentatively set a Dec. 21
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Environmental Protection Agency to ne
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Varner declined a request by attorneys
for Chemical Waste Management Inc.,
operators of the huge hazardous waste
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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
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The case involving classified informa
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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.
The directive also created a standard
form for officials to sign, promising they
never will divulge classified or “classi
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mission from proper authorities.
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hibiting use of funds during the 1987-81
fiscal year to implement the standard[
forms Reagan had authorized. A similail
provision was attached to the spendingj
bill for the current fiscal year.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — President
Reagan signed legislation Monday clear
ing the way for U.S. entry into a century- .
old international copyright agreement,
calling it “a victory in the name of a
right as old as the union itself.”
The signing ceremony in a hotel ball
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with cars but infuriated by soaring auto premiums, the insur
ance industry has raised a record $42.6 million for a campaign
to defeat consumer-backed ballot proposals that would slash
rates by at least 20 percent.
The contest over five conflicting auto insurance reform
measures on Nov. 8 ballots has grown into the most expensive
political struggle ever waged outside a presidential contest.
All told, a combined $60 million has been poured into a po
litical war pitting consumer advocates, insurers and trial law
yers against one another.
Industry analysts express fears that support for the tougher
rate-cutting measures could spawn a nationwide insurance re
volt.
More immediately, if Californians approve more than one
of the five conflicting measures, it could likely trigger court
battles that would produce unexpected hybrids.
But polls show Californians leaning toward approval of
Proposition 103, the deepest and broadest of the measures on
the ballot.
Proposition 103, supported by consumer advocate Ralph
Nader, would lower almost all rates by an immediate 20 per
cent below November 1987 rates. It would require an additio
nal 20 percent cut in insurance rates for good drivers.
It also would give an elected insurance commissioner con
trol over future rate increases, limit use of territorial rating to
set auto insurance premiums and subject the industry to state
antitrust and unfair business practice laws.
The rush to reform auto insurance was spurred by rates,
which have risen 40 percent between mid-1985 and the end of
1987, according to legislative studies.
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to none.
It placed rival Proposition 104 on the ballot, a 24,000-word
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personal injury premiums by an average 20 percent and pro
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result in death or permanent and serious disability.
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The fees are the payment an attorney gets from a settlement
won for a client who cannot afford the regular pay-as-you-go
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Differences between American and
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obstacles were removed when Congress
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixth-
graders in the Jackson School District
will have a new kind of homework as
signment this spring: Earn money to give
,to someone else.
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
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“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
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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
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pleted, take criticism and think crea
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Hambrick said she saw children disin-'
terested in school become model stu
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Last spring, sixth-graders scored an
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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.
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