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Logansport Pharos-Tribune from Logansport, Indiana • Page 9

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PHAROS-TRIBUMl, LOGAWiPORt, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1981 PAGE 9 2 German Chiefs Exchange Pointed Jabs At Summit BERLIN (UPI) West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt asked 'East German leader Erich Honecker Saturday to live up to the Helsinki human rights agreement and allow more reunions between families living in East and West Germany. But Honecker, hosting Schmidt at the first East-West German summit in 11 years, rejected any easing of restrictions and blamed the United States. "Good neighborliness can not flourish in the shadow of U.S. nuclear rockets, "he said.

Schmidt delivered a blunt speech at a luncheon in his honor at a government guest house north of Berlin on the second day of a three-day visit to East He diplomatically criticized East Germany's record on human rights, alluded to West German hopes for an eventual reunification of Germany and blamed Moscow for the arms race. see with great concern that the new Soviet medium-range rockets, each with three warheads, is changing the military balance in Europe," Schmidt said. As Schmidt appealed for freer movement across the 855-mile border dividing the two states, West German police reported a 20-year-old East German was seriously wounded early Saturday as he fled to the West over a 10-foot high fence on the border nearKassel. The refugee set off one of the booby-trapped gunshot charges the Communists have installed along with mine fields, dog runs, watchtowers and barbed wire West German Chancellor Schmidt (L) and East German President Honecker take walk during second day of meetings. at a cost of about $2.5 million a mile.

Schmidt reminded Honecker the Helsinki human rights declaration he signed calls for more contacts across borders. "This applies to all Europeans," Schmidt said. "That is why Germans both here and by us (in the West) must not stand aside. "The border that divides us we may not be able to overcome today. But the spirit of true detente and real neighborliness must also be credible on the border between the two German states," he said.

U.S. Reviews Irish Leader's Visa WASHINGTON (UPIi- mounting pressure Congress, the State said Saturday is reviewing the visa of Rev. Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish leader, planning to visit the United States soon. And a congressman leading a House drive for what he called an "evenhanded" policy on U.S. visits by opposing factions from Northern Ireland said he has 109 signatures on a letter protesting the fact that Paisley has a visa while one was denied to a prominent Irish Republican Army supporter.

The State Department said it was reviewing Paisley's "multiple entry" visa to the United States, issued in 1980. "We have to establish whether anything he has said or done in recent weeks has made him ineligible for a visa under our laws," the department said in a statement. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, and Sens. Edward Kennedy, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D- N.Y., have asked Secretary of State Alexander Haig to invalidate Paisley's. visa.

However, the department said its review of Paisley's visa was begun before it re- ceived the request Rep. William Carney, leading the drive in the House, said when his letter is given to the department Monday it will include copies of newspaper accounts of Paisley's recent activites, including a recent story quoting Paisley as urging his followers to "murder" the IRA. Carney said 17 senators have signed a similar letter in the other chamber. Paisley, a member of Parliament, is expected in the United States in a few weeks for a tour and "he'll probably try to raise money," said Carney in an interview. "I think we've got a broad base of support." he said, the department recently refused a visa for Owen Carron, a member of Parliament from Ireland who replaced IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands in Parliament and has since refused to take the seat.

Carron is a member of the provisional Sinn Fein, the political wkigof the IRA. "We should have an even-handed policy," said Carney. "Terrorism by anyone or any group cannot be tolerated. By granting him a visa to enter you're condemning it on one hand arid condoning it on the other, "said Carney. "Traditionally, the policy of the State Department has been to deny visas to persons responsible for or supporting terrorism abroad," Carney's letter said.

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JGPenney ft Kremlin Warns Poles; Militants Want Power GDANSK, Poland (UPI) Ignoring a new and ominous warning from the Kremlin, militants demanded Saturday that trie Solidarity labor union take power in Poland and questioned the nation's military ties with the Soviet bloc. Solidarity's national leadership, meeting for the second day, also passed a resolution threatening a genera! strike if parliament approves a series of tough emergency rule laws demanded by the Communist Party. In Warsaw, Mayor Jerzy Majewski demanded that Solidarity call off planned mass demonstrations set for Thursday and hinted the government might use force to prevent them. Majewski said the street rallies planned in Warsaw and other cities would be like "putting a fuse to a barrel of gun powder" and warned that "law enforcement organs, will oppose with determination any actions aimed against peoples' power." In Moscow, the Soviet news agency Tass said Solidarity was "preparing for direct seizure of power" and a general strike aimed at paralyzing the country and "overthrowing the Socialist system." It was one of the Kremlin's strongest criticisms of Poland's independent labor movement since a Solidarity congress last summer first raised the taboo subject of questioning Polish-Soviet relations. The current meeting of Solidarity's national commission, called to pass a strike resolution if parliament approves the emergency rule measures sought by the government, turned into a no-holds- barred debate that deepened the split between moderate and militant factions in the 10-million member union.

But the leadership djd agree on the centerpiece of the resolutions being debated at the three-day meeting a seven-point declaration of strategy. The resolution includes demands for free elections, access to the mass media, an end to reprisals against the union, economic reforms, greater union control of the economy, a new trade union law and the creation of a council to oversee economic matters. It also included provisions for a 24- hour strike if parliament grants emergency powers to the government and an indefinite general strike if such powers are used. Catholic FamilyLife Edict Coming Tuesday VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope John Paul II will issue his much-awaited document covering Roman Catholic Church views on all facets of modern family life on Tuesday, the Vatican announced Saturday. The document will include the pope's summation of the opinions expressed by more than 200 bishops from all over the world at a synod held in the Vatican in October'1980 on the theme "The Christian family in the modern The document will undoubtedly reiterate the church's outright ban on abortion, divorce and artificial means of conception, Vatican sources said.

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