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Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer 3-A 'NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL 'tlfiL i The Scene In the nation 'ft 7 i I Iff L1 'V Soviet missiles are transported through Byelorussia as helicopters fly cover during Soviet border maneuvers Soviet silence on troops irks NATO years, Westerners have been invited. Permanent representatives of the alliance's 15 member nations dis-. cussed the maneuvers yesterday, the spokesman said, and concluded that "the failure of the Soviet Union to provide the number of participating forces raises serious concern." The official Soviet news agency Tass has said more than 100,000 troops were taking part in sea, air and land exercises in the Baltic Sea, the Soviet Baltic states and the west ern Soviet republic of Byelorussia bordering Poland. Tass reported yesterday that troops and naval forces staged small mock battles in preparation for larger; engagements.

The games are to continue until Saturday. The Soviet reports indicated that the pace of the maneuvers had been gradually increasing. In a rare official comment, the NATO spokesman said the Soviet Union notified Western countries of Solidarity debates how to fece future Associated Pris ALTHOUGH MOST PATRIOTS would rather forget, the citizens of Groton, Sunday re-enacted a key American defeat in the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Groton Heights. Here, locals in period costume prepare to storm ashore 200 years after the British routed the revolutionaries from Fort Griswold and seized New London Harbor. Pizza.

Give 'em what they want The lunch menu in Bedford, N.Y., public schools this year will offer children the usual ail-American fare: cheeseburgers, ham patties, rolls, vegetables, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But this year, every day, they can order pizza instead. "It's the same with anybody; you go to a restaurant and order what you want," said George Lackey, business manager for the school district. "These little kids want pizza. Many of them will eat it every day of the week, three times a day." In response to questions from worried parents, Lackey said that pizza is not junk food.

He said it meets all the nutritional standards for the federally approved "Type lunch, which requires meat or a meat al-ternative, vegetable or fruit and bread or a bread alternate. Pizza costs about as much as the traditional school lunch, Lackey said, which is 85 cents in elementary schools and $1 in the senior and middle schools. Chawi But spare the rod and Evidence of a sterner approach to mass education is the tobacco crackdown under way in the school districts of Ogden and Weber, Utah. About 10 high school students were slapped with "tickets" last week for using tobacco on school grounds. Half of the tickets went to chewers and half to smokers, said Gerald Raat, assistant superintendent of the Ogden district.

The 1981 Utah legislature passed a law allowing Raat and other Utah school administrators to collar tobacco-using students and "ticket" them, meaning suspected chewers and smokers must appear in juvenile court and are subject to a $10 fine. Students were warned about the crackdown in a letter from Raat before schools opened. "The ticketing program's value may be as a deterrent," said Raat. "It could push the problem away from campus." Blue moont I saw you standing alone Jacqueline Moon, 46, likely will never forget her honeymoon in New York last week, although she may not treasure the memory. The Endicott, N.Y., bride was robbed Saturday of about $16,000 in jewels and cash by a man with a knife in an elevator at the Sheraton Centre Hotel, she told police.

She said her attacker even took her wedding ring, though she begged to keep it. Then, on Sunday, her purse was stolen while she was sitting in the hotel's piano bar. This time, however, the purse was empty. Fcrretsi Greatness, perhaps, but not a lot to see Reginald Mellor, 71, has decided to give the world one last chance to witness and appreciate his unusual talent. Once more in January, the Londoner plans to drop two wriggling, razor-toothed ferrets down his pants sans undergarments and endure whatever torment this entails long enough to break his current self-proclaimed endurance record of five hours, 26 minutes.

Mellor says he has been performing this feat since his youth, but has never achieved the recognition he deserves. Indeed, his last performance was virtually ignored by bystanders who saw little more than an old man in oddly shifting trousers with a peculiar grimace On his face. Mellor recalls bitterly that one of the event's organizers muttered, "Not a lot to see, really." After that, he sold his stable of 15 ferrets small, albino polecat-like creatures used to hunt rats and retired. Still, Mellor now plans one more stab at glory. Mellor wants nothing.less than notice in the Guinness Book of World Records, which has refused to recognize his feat as asport.

Wombsi Not one, but two Theresa Ebers, 22, of London, gave birth last week at Guy's Hospital to two healthy boys. Twins? Well, technically speaking, no. Mrs. Ebers carried each son in a separate womb. Doctors had told Mrs.

Ebers four years ago that her unusual inner anatomy ruled out childbirth. The two-womb c6ndition js extremely rare, doctors said, and a successful simultaneous pregancy in each rarer still. London newspapers quickly dubbed her "Mum in a Million." "I just cried with joy when I saw my two babies," Mrs. Ebers said. "I have to keep pinching myself to make sure it really happened." MarkBowden and the world Afghan troops cross into Pakistan in a search for weapons.

About 40 troops confiscated weapons yesterday in a house-to-house search at a border village in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, a defense ministry statement said. It was the first report of a ground incursion by regular troops since the outbreak of Afghanistan's civil war between Muslim fundamentalist rebels and the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. No shooting or injuries were reported and there was no immediate confirmation of the action from Kabul. The troops, in two armored personnel carriers and two heavy trucks, retreated across the border before a Pakistan army patrol arrived. The United States sends 30 diesel generators to El Salvador.

The generators will make the nation less vulnerable to power outages caused by strikes and terrorist attacks, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said in San Salvador yesterday. He said 14 generators would go to pumping plants and that most of the rest to hospitals. The shipment arrived in El Salvador from Baltimore by air yesterday. A three-day nationwide outage caused by a strike in 1979 caused damage estimated at $24 million and spoiled large supplies of medicines in hospitals.

Ten deaths were blamed on that outage. Strikes, leftist takeovers and terrorist bombs I jj 1 I 'i Associated Press the maneuvers Aug. 14 but did not say how many troops would be in-' volved. 'r tf The spokesman said the Soviets had been asked to explain why figure was omitted but had not so. -t Thirty-five countries, including the Soviet Union, signed an agree- ment in Helsinki in 1975 to give for-1'' mal notification of any maneuvers involving more than 25,000 troops.

One Solidarity delegate, Leszeky Sobieszak of Gdansk, suggested that, the union eliminate from its charter a clause referring to the leading role of the Communist Party in Hesitancy to accept the clause was a factor in delaying registration of Solidarity as a union here last Octo ber. "It may have been necessary when we were beginning our fight, but now it's a little absurd when we are fighting most of the party's ideas," said Sobieszak, a founder of the. union here. In debate about the future form of. Solidarity, Lech Walesa, leader of the.

9.5 million-member union, put his weight officially behind a strong, central structure, as opposed to an approach giving-power to regional-branches. "We're going for a struggle and we have to have big generals from big: regions," Walesa said, proposing a permanent resident leadership -in. Gdansk to act out initiatives taken by the national union executive repre-, scnting the 40-odd regional locals. The issue is crucial for Solidarity, since Walesa, through his immense personal prestige and power, has managed to moderate past disputes that came from the local level. But the proposal drew an immediate blast from Sobieszak, who said the regions "should govern ourselves very strong and the presidium lof Solidarity) should only represent us." Western diplomatic observers said that the close vote for re-election of the party's national press spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz, indicated some opposition to Walesa's team of leaders, but speculated that the union leader would still win re-election during the congress second meeting at the end of this month.

Demonstrators are arrested at a proposed nuclear waste facility. Twenty-nine people including eight reporters and photographers were arrested on criminal-trespass charges yesterday during a peaceful demonstration at the site of a proposed nuclear waste facility in New Mexico. The demonstrators were part of a group of about 150 protesting the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a proposed low-level nuclear waste repository about 25 miles; southeast of Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico. The plant is a $1 billion federal project designed as the first repository in underground salt beds for low-level nuclear waste generated from the nation's weapons devet opment program, NOTES: Four heavily armed con? victs who broke out of the Kansas State Prison at Lansing eluded capture for a second day after three of them tied up a farm couple and stole a shotgun, money and a car. Work crews vacuumed more crude oil from the Mississippi River as some of an estimated 860,000 gallons that spilled in a tanker-tugboat collision at New Orleans spread 14 miles downriver.

Three rare white tiger cubs were born at the Cincinnati Zoo. The 16th annuul Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon generated a record $31,498,772 in pledges for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. By Henry Gottlieb Ajwclaied Press BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO said yesterday that the Soviet Union had violated the spirit of East-West peace agreements by not telling the West-, ern alliance how many troops were on maneuvers near Poland. A spokesman said there also was concern because Western observers had not been invited to the nine days of Soviet war games. In previous Walesa (with mustache) kneels cause sporadic outages throughout the country.

South Africa is said soften its stand on U.N. troops in Namibia. The Johannesburg Star said yesterday that South Africa was "no longer implacably opposed" to the presence of U.N. troops in the territory, formerly known asSouth-West Africa, to monitor the process leading to independence. The report quoted foreign affairs officials speaking privately.

The Pretoria government has opposed U.N. participation, alleging that the United Nations was biased in favor of SWAPO, the black nationalist group that has waged a 15-ycar war from bases in Angola to wrest control of the territory from South Africa. NOTES: A motor launch with 70 Haitian refugees aboard was rescued by a Mexican fishing boat off the Caribbean port city of Progeso, Mexico. Guatemala broke off consular relations with Britain to protest the British government's decision to grant independence to Belize, a Central American colony tucked between Mexico and Guatemala Benazir Bhutto, a leading political dissident and eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan who was executed two years ago, was granted a three-day parole to attend her sister's wedding. i I rfi r-'i I 'nil 1 s' rL r-j; 'ft' 1I 1 Of i By Thomas W.Netter Associated Press GDANSK, Poland Solidarity unionists meeting in this Baltic port yesterday debated the future form of their year-old independent union and considered proposing a national referendum on workers' reforms.

At the same time, more than 100,000 Soviet troops were reported maneuvering beyond Poland's borders and in the Baltic Sea on (exercises that the United States said might be intended to intimidate the Polish labor movement. NATO yesterday accused Moscow of violating the spirit bf the East-West peace accords by failing to report officially the number of troops involved. Polish Premier and Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski observed the maneuvers, according to the official news agency PAP, which did not say exactly where the Polish official was. In the northwest city of Bydgoszcz, 160 prisoners who had barricaded themselves in a jail ended their revolt after militia units surrounded the building, local Solidarity officials said. They said some Solidarity members had joined the prisoners to negotiate and the prisoners gave up so that the Solidarity mediators would not be hurt.

About 150 other prisoners escaped during a Saturday night riot and about 90 remained at large, PAP The 890 Solidarity delegates, holding their first national congress since the independent union was formed during shipyard strikes here a year ago, began debates over the union's power structure after two days of procedural exercises. The hard-line army daily Zolnicrz Wolnosci said the union's decision to ban Polish state television from the congress "confirmed the general opinion that the road to genuine agreement is still far away." The 5,000 teachers are angry over layoffs and salary freezes in the school system, where classes start tomorrow for 60,000 pupils. "None of you, whether laid off or not, came to work here because you wanted to see this school system destroyed," teachers' union president Kathleen Kelley said. The teachers scheduled a meeting for, Sept. 20 to discuss a way to resolve the layoffs and wage freezes.

The financially strapped Boston School Department has threatened to fire the teachers if they walk out A family of six drowns in a car in a Mississippi lake. Authorities first learned of the drownings yesterday morning when they recovered the body of a woman from Sardis Lake in the northwest part of the state; they started a search and found the car under water. "The windows of the car were down," said Panola County Sheriff David Bryan. "I would imagine they just panicked." The car's ignition was off when the two-door vehicle was recovered. It appeared to have rolled down a boat-launching ramp.

The victims were identified as Terry L. Crittendon, 29; his wife, Carolyn Sue, 26, and their sons, Scott and William, all of Jackson, and Mrs. Crit-tendon's father, Blondie E. White, 61, and his wife, Rosic Sue, 46, of Como, Miss. National and International News in Brief Associsted Press during Solidarity Mass Sunday National Gerald R.

Ford. Former President Ford supports a cutback in the military budget. Ford said yesterday in a speech in Honolulu that the Reagan administration's beefed-up military budget should be trimmed to reduce deficits and high interest rates, which he said are the main problems facing the administration and Congress. "These are tough choices, but if we do not have a prosperous economy, we will not have the wherewithal to finance a strengthened military force," Ford said. Boston teachers are not walking out today, as they had threatened.

The teachers voted last night to reconsider in two weeks a proposal to strike rather than walk out today, International Menachem Begin Orthodox Jews stage a protest outside Menachem Begin's hotel. The Israeli prime minister spent the day in his hotel in New York yesterday conferring with his cabinet ministers and lunching with former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance. About 2,000 Orthodox wearing black suits and hats, gathered outside to protest archaeological digs in Israel that they say are "disturbing the graves of onr holy sages." Begin travels to Washington today to meet with President Reagan tomorrow and Thursday. Vance, a key figure in the Carter administration in negotiating the Mideast peace accord, said he and Begin discussed "personal things and the Middle East political situation." i i mil i VjLttak eCiiumn 4.