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The Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun Saturday' December 8 1p84 1 5 China says: World Marxism sojve problems Polish students stage sit-iri to protest removal of crosses some theories of Marx and Lenin to define an abundant rich modern life can only impede the advance of fhe editorial said the successors of Marx we have the obligation to develop and enrich preted as a shift to capitalism -The editorial appeared mainly directed at criticizing those people who ft said ding religiously to Marx's 19th century economic theories without regard for present realties' economy is a vast sea There are many questions that are not In the editorial said require us to investigate real- ity to find The Soviet Union which considers itself (he guide far other Marxist states has signaled disapproval of departure from Soviet-style planning The Soviets have said the reforms will undermine Communist ideology and lead to inflation and unemployment Marx conaideked the founder of Communism held that capitalist economies suppress the working classes which are forced to sell their labor to a rich minority The philosopher envisioned a society in which everyone would share wealth equally workers would rule private enterprise disappear and all 1 exploitation wither away The editorial reflected vision of what he calls with Chinese Deng who emerged as senior leader two years after the death of revolutionary Chairman Mao Tse-tung in 1976 has reversed mast of radical exhortations and direc- fives He dismantled communes and replaced them with the socalled system" that allows China's 800 million peasants to grow cropsindi virtually and go into private business Contradicting Mao's egalitarian Ideals Deng's associates 'have decreed there is nothing wrdng with' a socfetyof some rich and many poor and that eventually everyone will become well-off The 1 material quality of' rural' Chinese life has sharply increased under Deng's direction with many-peasants multiplying their incomes building new homes and buying Ty sets washing machines new clothes and other items Under the urban reforms proclaimed Oct 20 free-enterprise incentives that have benefited the peasants will gradually be extended to 200 million city residents Those changes portend freedom to change Jobs wage inpreases based on hard work and the end of aubsidixed prices for food and raw materials that nave kept consumer costs artificially low The party has warned people not to abuse the relaxation df control for ill-gotten private gain which it termed a unhealthy tendency" The latest such warning from the Discipline Inspection Commission was printed in mast major newspapers Friday and said those who arbitrarily raise prices beyond prescribed limits speculate cheat defraud or embezzle will be severely punished The editorial coincides with an ambitious effort by senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to remold economy encourage private enterprise woo foreign investment and competition It comes Just a weeks after the party announced the building and are dentanding that the crosses be put back" Sniecikowski said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press Local government representatives were holding talks with the students and their parents he said adding that there has beim no ultimatum from Communist authorities to end the protest Principal Julian Lis said abSit 15 percent of the 700 students were taking part in the protest but he refused to elaborate In the protests last March about 3000 students from the Mietne school and three schools in Garwolin boycotted classes Classes resumed soon after in Garwolin but the Mietne school stayed dosed with authorities demanding students and parents sign statements agreeing to thp crucifix removals The standoff ended a month later after authorities agreed to permit one crucifix to hang at the agricultural high school Authorities also promised there would bd no reprisals against students and teachers who had joined the protest In their pastoral letter to be read in the churches on Sunday Poland's bishops condemned the removal of crosses from places believers study and work The letter raised the prospect of a renewed conflict with authorities over the removal of crosses placed in public institutions during 1980-81 before the free trade union Solidarity was outlawed More than 90 percent of Poland's 37 million people are Roman Catholic WARSAW Poland (AP) About 100 students and two priests have renewed of the crosses" by staging a sit-in at a put He high school where crucifixes were stripped from classroom walls officials said Friday Also Friday the country's Roman Catholic bishops warned that Communist authorities' removal of crosses from state-run schools and factories would stir in church-state relations following the slaying of a pro-Solidarity priest The protest at the 700tudent vocational high school in Wloszczowa 150 miles south of 'Warsaw began Monday and classes have been suspended since Tuesday a local government official said It was the first major dispute ov" crosses reported since March when thousands of youths in rural Garwolin nd neighboring Mietne 40 miles south of Warsaw protested the removal of crosses from school building Authorities citing the separation of church and state have forbidden the hanging of crosses in public buildings Describing the new protests Sta-nislaw Sniecikowski a spokesman for the provincial office said group of about 100 students accompanied by two priests remains at the school" in Wloszczowa He said students had put up crucifixes over the weekend and they were taken down by school officials The decision to suspend classes was made by the headmaster Sniecikowski said youths do not want to leave to introduce more free enterprise into the country's highly centralized economy are clearly trying to find a theoretical Justification for what they are said one Western diplomat who spoke with the understanding that he not be identified goes beyond what said before in terms of 1 Some conservative party members are known to be uncomfortable with reforms because they seem incompatible with fundamental Marxist tenets and could be inter- PEKING (AP) China Mid Friday that Orthodox Marxism is itdatwf and cannot be depended on to solve ChineOe problems The statement was a direct repudiation of the ruling Communist Party's founding philosophy A frontpage editorial in the party newspaper People's Doily declared the thoughts of the Communist ideologue Karl Man and his associates Friedrich Engels and Vladimir lamin to be obsolete passed away 101 years ago his works are more than a century the editorial said were his visions of that time after which the situation changed greatly Some of his ideas are not neceasarUy appropriate are many things that Man Engels and Lenin never experienced or had any contact with We cannot depend on the works of Man and Lenin to solve our modern-day the editorial said The declaration was the latest sign of what foreign observers have called a gradual methodical reinterprets- lion of basic Communist principles that have helped shape the most popuhius country for the past some theories of Man and Lenin to define an abundant rich modern life can only impede the advance of history" the editorial said the successors of Man we have the' obligation to develop and enrich American actor is sentenced READING England American actor Stacy Keach was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling 1J ounces of cocaine into Britain His secretary Deborah Steele was given a three-month Jail sentence Both had pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal possession of drugs They began serving their terms immediately Keach 43 who stars as the tough-talking detective in the US television series Mike told the Reading Crown Court he was and felt humiliation" The actor and MissSteeie 41 were arrested April 4 at London's Heath- row Airport when Keach arrived to work on soundtracks for the television 102 dead in Sri Lanka PA Soosinathin a former member of from Mannar said troops waylaid two buses Tuesday killing at least 16 people in one vehicle and an undetermined number in the other He said by telephone from Colombo that six post office employees were lined up and shot to death At least 40 other people were gunned down while working in their fields he said Soosinathin said about 2000 Mannar residents had taken reftige in Jun- glee schools and religious shrines Soosinathin is a Tamil belonging to the Tamil United Liberation Front a political party banned from parliament last year for refusing to denounce separatism Official sources iq Colombo did not challenge his account The Mannar incident was believed to be the most serious instance of army reprisals since Tamil rebels in- Just in time for the Holidays! 84 Plymouth Voyager LE 1 1 988 wme1 Front whoOl drivo mini van COLOMBO Sri Lanka (AP) -More than 100 people were shot to death following a guerrilla attack on an army convoy in northwestern Sri Lanka official sources 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