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The Odessa American from Odessa, Texas • 46

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Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1 985 THE ODESSA AMERICAN 5 Jaruzelski resigns as Poland's premier if 1 I ft TV whether some prominent Solidarity activists would be among them. More than 630 political prisoners, including some Solidarity members, were released last summer in a general amnesty. Jaruzelski said last month's parliamentary elections, the first in five years, "confirmed the advanced character of the processes of reconciliation and normalization." The government reported a voter turnout of 78.8 percent and said Solidarity failed in its appeal for a boycott. "We are stronger and we can thus afford to more sharply, more decisively, overcome weaknesses," Jaruzelski said.

"There is still a lot to be done." Jaruzelski, as premier, heads the Council of Ministers. spoke on condition he not be identified, said the move "means Jaruzelski has decided the problem in Poland is no longer political but economic." Messner, 56, was appointed deputy premier in November 1983 and is a member of the party's ruling Politburo. Jaruzelski said nothing about his plans in a speech to the Central Committee that was broadcast Tuesday on state television. However, he referred to himself as the "until-now prime minister." Jaruzelski, 62, became premier February 1981 and Communist Party chief eight months later, shortly before the government moved against Solidarity. A government spokesman said Tuesday that most of the country's 368 political prisoners would be given amnesty and.

released "shortly," but did not specify WARSAW, Poland (AP) Communist Party and diplomatic sources say Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski is resigning as Poland's premier, apparently signalling the end of the political crisis that led to martial law and suppression of the Solidarity labor movement in 1981. The sources said Jaruzelski's resignation was approved Tuesday at a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee and would be made public today at the opening session of the new Parliament. "Jaruzelski intended to remain head of the Communist Party, the real power in this Soviet-bloc country, and work" to strengthen the organization that lost nearly 1 million members after labor turmoil in 1980 gave birth to Solidarity, the sources said. The government crushed Solidarity and declared martial law in December 1981, and outlawed the Soviet bloc's only independent labor federation the following autumn.

Many Solidarity leaders have been driven underground and some are in jail. Diplomats said that by relinguishing control over day-to-day government operations, Jaruzelski would be able to prepare for next year's Communist Party congress. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Jaruzelski will be replaced as premier by Zbigniew Messner, the deputy premier who has been responsible for coordinating Poland's economic reform program. Western diplomats said Jaruzelski's decision meant that the Polish leader feels the country's political turmoil is largely over. One diplomat, who also Jaruzelski Foreign Briefs Mexican authorities detain 15 for police deaths questioning i.

1 '4 In addition, authorities continued questioning two survivors of the shootout, Jose Isidoro Chontal and Moises Espronceda Gonzalez, who were transferred to Mexico City by agents of Interpol-Mexico. The survivors, both civilians, were working with the agents when they were ambushed early Friday in the tiny settlement of Ignacio Aldama by an estimated 80 drug traffickers armed with high-powered rifles. The village is about 90 minutes by river launch from the gulf coast city of Minatitlan. The details of the attack remained sketchy. According to some officials, the drug agents had exchanged fire with their assailants at two villages before they were gunned down at a third site.

Jimenez Munoz, in his statement, said the drug traffickers and the agents had three confrontations. After that, he said the agents went to another site to rest and buy sodas and cookies when they were attacked. According to some accounts, the men were tortured, forced to kneel with their arms and hands bound and then shot with high-powered weapons. Autopsies showed 16 of the victims had internal injuries that indicated they had been beaten or tortured, a Veracruz medical examiner said. Federal authorities identified the victims as five Federal Judicial Police officers, 12 state and local policemen and five local men on the police payroll as guides and informants.

MEXICO CITY (AP) Fifteen farm workers have been detained by authorities for questioning about marijuana traffickers alleged to have ambushed and gunned down 22 members of an anti-drug squad in a remote area of southern Mexico. Gen. Jaime Jimenez Munoz, commander of the 29th military zone in the state of Veracruz, said in a press release late Tuesday that none of those held for questioning has admitted taking part in the killings late last week. But, the statement said, the farm workers "have mentioned some names of the presumed criminals, although (Jimenez Munoz) didn i. want to cite any to avoid obstructing the investigations." Jimenez Munoz also said they have put together a list of middlemen involved in drug trafficking in the mountainous jungles of Veracruz, a key marijuana-growing region of Mexico.

The statement said three of the 15 detained were believed to have witnessed the slayings. Authorities said earlier that they arrested three men suspected of telling the drug agents they would find a large cache of marijuana at the ambush site. Enrique Arenal, head of the government's anti-narcotics campaign, said the investigation would extend to state officials. He did not identify them, but the chief of Interpol in Mexico, Cmdr. Florentino Ventura, was quoted in locql newspapers as saying they included a state police commander.

Queen opens session LONDON (AP) Amid traditional pageantry, Queen Elizabeth II today opened a new session of Parliament, promising a law-and-order crackdown, the sale of state-owned British Gas and new efforts to find peace in Northern Ireland. The 10-minute speech from the throne, read by the 59-year-old monarch but written by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, contained no new moves to try to curb the Conservative government's biggest domestic problem unemployment. Police sharp-shooters were stationed on rooftops along the route from the palace to the Houses of Parliament, where the queen outlined Thatcher's legislative program for the coming year. The law-and-order measures also will include legislation against inciting racial hatred against Britain's 4 percent black and Asian minority, and powers to seize all assets of drug traffickers and their associates. American wounded SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) The FBI said a U.S.

Army major was shot and wounded in the shoulder this morning outside Fort Buchanan, about one mile south of the capital. A small Puerto Rican separatist group, the Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution, called The Associated Press to claim reponsibility for the shooting. FBI spokesman Angel Berlingeri said Maj. Michael Snider, 37, was taken to Veterans Hospital in San Juan. His hometown was not immediately available.

The police said Snider was leaving the base on a motorcycle when two men approached on another motorcycle and shot him with an AR-15 automatic rifle. Ships line up at canal THOROLD, Ontario AP) More than 120 ships began lining up in the St. Lawrence Seaway to pass through the Welland Canal, blocked by a collapsed wall in a lock 23 days ago during the waterway's busiest season. Officials said record rains and heavy winds slowed repairs to the canal in southern Ontario earlier this week, but they vowed to open the canal today with a bandage job that would allow ships to trqnsport their cargo before the seaway closes for the winter. "The rain has severely hampered our progress," authority spokeswoman Gail Bush said Tuesday.

"However, opening is still planned for sometime on Wednesday." Crews had raced to patch up the wall since the Oct. 14 collapse, which came less than a year after a broken lift bridge choked traffic for 18 days. Seaway Authority officials have lined up some of the more than 120 trapped ships in anticipation of the opening. Twenty-four ships can move through the 26-mile canal each day once it reopens, officials said. At that rate, it will take about a week until the backlog in Lakes Erie and Ontario eases.

AP Laserphoto iter ft A. I i Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger's girlfriend, models gown Fashion fund- raiser lacked concert frenzy LONDON (AP) Rock singer Boy George showed off black tights and actor Michael Caine glided uncomfortably down the catwalk in a dinner jacket as the fashion industry threw an extravaganza complete with fireworks to raise money for African famine victims. Eighteen of the world's top designers paraded creations Tuesday night ranging from slinky gold lame evening gowns to unisex trousers and jackets, in what organizers billed as the biggest fashion show ever staged. But Bob Geldof, who masterminded the Live Aid rock marathon and conceived Fashion Aid, was angry that the sell-out crowd of 6,000 at Royal Albert Hall did not react at the same decibel level as the rock fans. The 16-hour trans-Atlantic Live Aid concert in July raised about $70 million.

"I hate the Albert Hall. It's too dead. Stay up! Get hip!" he shouted at the audience. The crowd gave Geldof, the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, a standing ovation and remained on its feet to applaud the designers. The Duchess of Kent, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the guest of honor, hung a T-shirt by Katharine Hamnett with the slogan "Let's Stop Children Dying" over the edge of the royal box where she sat with Geldof.

Organizers said they hoped to raise $1.4 million Tuesday night from ticket and T-shirt sales and donations and another $2.8 million by selling videos of the show and Fashion Aid T-shirts -t I M8Bi 1111 1 -j1 i Ki' 'u XT ij WlWHflTTi I LEGAL NOTICE TO BE PUBLISHED OCTO BER 29, 30 AND NOVEMBER 5, 6, 1985 LEGAL NOTICE To be published Novem ber 6th, 1985. NOTICE On October 23, 1985, an applica tion was filed at the Federal N.A. Nadeau dba The Blue Max is making appli cation to the Texas Alco Communications Commission for consent to the transfer of control of Telepictures Corporation from its Board of Directors on behalf of all shareholders to the Board of Directors of holic Beverage Commis Lorimar, Inc. on behalf of the sion for a Mixed Beverage Permit on the address of 222 N. Dixie, Odessa, Shareholders of Lorimar LEGAL NOTICE TO BE PUBLISHED OCTOBER 23.

30 AND NOVEMBER 4 4 13, 1985 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FREMONT COUNTY, WYOMING NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF CHRISTOPHER DAVID BERNIER, a Child. NO. 743 NOTICE To: DONALD T. BERNIER. believed to reside at or near Telepictures Corporation.

Telepictures Corporation is the parent of Telepictures Broad Ector County, Texas. casting licensee of tele 11119 vision station KMID-TV, Channel 1, Midland, Texas, and Telepictures Broadcastirg KSPR licensee of KSPR(TV), Channel 33, Springfield, Missouri. The officers and directors of Telepictures Corporation are AP Lastrpfwto Odessa, Texas, parent ol Diana arrives for a Parliament House reception Arafat silent after meeting with Mubarak CAIRO, Egypt (AP) The chief political adviser to President Hosni Mubarak said the president and PLO chief Yasser Arafat found no differences between them during four hours of "very constructive and fruitful" talks. However, Arafat uncharacteristically walked past reporters without saying a word after Tuesday's meeting with Mubarak. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid was quoted in a magazine interview as saying the Middle East peace initiative recently outlined by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has positive elements but needs to be clarified.

Abdel-Meguid's interview was to be published Thursday in the weekly e-Af usa war magazine. The Associated Press obtained an advance issue. The minister was quoted as saying positive elements in Peres' initiative, announced last month in a speech at the United Nations, included acceptance of a role for the U.N. Security Council in the search tor peace LEGAL NOTICE TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE Michael J. Solomon, Michael N.

Garin, David S. Lawi, David E. ODESSA AMERICAN ON OC Salzman, Herbert M. TOBER 30 AND NOVEMBER Pearlman, Richard f. 1985.

Kooertaon, Stephen ross. Protesters confront prince Abbott-' Washburn, Winthrop NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed to the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Odessa, Texas, will be received in me CHRISTOPHER DAVID BERNIER, a minor. You will please take notice that THEODORE A. MAY and PENNIE J. MAY, his wife, have filed in the District Court of the State of Wyoming, 9th Judicial District, in and for the County of Fremont, petition praying that an order might be made granting leave to them to adopt CHRISTOPHER DAVID BERNIER, your minor child, and that December 23, 1985.

at 1:00 o'clock p.m. of said day, at the courtroom of said court at the courthouse in the City of Lander, County of Fremont, State of Wyoming, has been set for the hearing of said petition, and you are hereby notified to appear and show cause, if any you may have, why the petition should not be granted. Office of the City Secretary, 411 W. 8th Street 1st Floor, until P.M., Thursday, November 14, 1985 and then publicly opened and read for furnishing the City of Odessa with the following items: Knowlton, and Franklin Konigsberg. The proposed officers and directors of Lorimar-TeleDlctures1 Corporation are Abbott Washburn, Marv Adelson, Irwin Molasky, C.V.

Wood, Lee Rich. Stuart D. Buchalter, David E. Salzman, Robert Linton, Michael J. Solomon, J.

Anthony Young, Michael N. Garin, Richard T. Robertson, Winthrop Knowlton, Leo-Arthur Kelmenson, and Charles Peebler, Jr A copy of the application "is or file for public Inspection durinf business hours at the studio on television station KMID-TV, La Force Boulevard, Midland, Texas, or may be obtained from the Federal Communications Commission! Washington. OC. 11082 Item Specifications No.

Envelopes 184-1250-09 Photographic Supplies "We want a school bus, not a royal tour," read one protester's sign. Charles wife, Lady Diana, was visiting a children's home at the time. The royal couple arrived in Canberra today after an 11-day tour of Victoria stqte to celebrate its 150th birthday. They leave Australia on Friday for a three-day visit to the United States. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Britain's Prince Charles was confronted today by students protesting cuts in educational services when he toured a school science center.

As the prince of Wales entered the School Without Walls, about 20 students chanted slogans and waved banners to protest withdrawal of bus services and cuts in teaching staff. i Specifications and proposal forms may be obtained in the Office of the Purchasing Agent, 411 W. 8tn street 2nd Floor, Odessa, Texas. DATED this HM day of Octo Gary Pipes Purchasing Agent ber, 1985. fiota loss.

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