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DETROIT FREE PRESSSATURDAY, NOV 28, 1981 11A Party chief demands law to forbid strikes in Poland POLAND, from Page 1A But the Romanian security police are among the toughest in the bloc and will crack down on any organized opposition. secretariat, presented a Politburo report critical of Solidarity to the Central Committee meeting. call us: "Strike terror has systematically weakened the power or the CZECHOSLOVAKIA, which has long congratulated itself on its rising national prosperity, now admits failure in energy state and ruins the nation. There has not been a single day without 222-0434 Action Line solves problems, strikes, strike alerts or other protests for the past six months," the report said. Wozniak said national income would drop by 1 5 percent this year, falling to 1974 levels, and that Poland faced growing lack of worker discipline; black market speculation unprecedented since World War II, and attacks on officials and the party.

production and agriculture and officials are speaking or "unprecedented difficulties" and "unpopular measures." So far there have been no reports of food shortages. But electricity and heating cuts are being made and Czech Politburo members have forecast a "very tense situation" next year in the supply of fuel oils. gets answers, cuts THE ONSET of winter is creating serious food and energy problems for Poland and other East European Communist bloc countries. Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia are suffering from the poor harvests that have disrupted food supplies, and from failures in energy production. Reports reaching the West from several East European capitals indicate that the Soviet Union has informed its Warsaw Pact allies it will reduce vital exports of oil and natural gas by up to 10 percent in the current five-year plan.

Romania, once the breadbasket of the Balkans and a relatively independent member of the bloc, has had a series of poor harvests and now is gripped by Polish-style food lines. Cheese, meat, butter, sugar, cooking oil and other items are in short supply and bread is rationed. There have been several reports in the past few months of unrest, strikes and even sabotage in major towns outside Bucharest and general discontent around the country. red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Detroit Free Press, 321 W.

Lafayette, Meanwhile, a spokesman for the independent students associ Czechoslovakia has been hit by a sharp reduction in imports of Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

ation said a sit-in by 100,000 students in 71 of Poland's 92 colleges and universities would continue, but that talks were being held Polish coal as well as by Romania abrupt refusal to deliver 10 percent of the Czechs electricity imports. Lost mall, lost business Every with the parliament. The students want a new academic law, and are supporting Two other Soviet bloc countries, East Germany and Bulgaria, have also failed to meet harvest targets and some belt-tightening fall I mail advertising cards offering my engineering students in central Radom who said their headmaster ethnic calendar to a select group of will be needed to get through the winter. was elected undemocraticaiiy. customers.

This year, I sent about 2,500 postcards in early October. So far, I Court told chilling tale haven't received one order. I decided to call some of the people I mailed these of underworld survival cards to and discovered they never got them. It looks as if the post office lost them. I bundled the cards and mailed Music star Lotte Lenya dies in N.Y.

Lotte Lenya, 83, a star of the German and American stage and films, died in New York Friday evening. She became a star in 1928 as Jenny in the original Berlin production of "Threepenny Opera." by her composer husband, Kurt Weill, and dramatist Bertolt Brecht. When the Nazis came to power, she and Weill, who was Jewish, emigrated to Paris, where Brecht and Weill composed their only work written specifically for her, the drama-ballet "The Seven Deadly Sins." Ater Weill's death in 1950, she became a noted figure in America through her revival of his work. himself because he was UNDERWORLD, from Page 3A them from a box In front of the main post office In Dearborn. If these cards are lost, warned by underworld col I've lost a lot of business.

Is, leagues that such ventures had to be cleared by Vito (Bill) and Anthony Giacalone, both con D.S., Detroit We told your tale to a top local postal victed extortionists. Marchesani, the hidden owner. Marchesani was not the owner of record; he could not get a liquor license because of his criminal record. When Marchesani suspected Robb was stealing money from the bar he cocked a gun service official by phone, just to be sure. Official said since your complaint Robb said at one point he refinanced his house and car to pay off a loansharking debt incurred by the husband of his involved national mailing, it was diffi cult to determine whether postcards had Reagans roughing it at ranch and told Robb to stop it, Robb cousin.

"I paid because I heard been misplaced somewhere. But wher that Tony and Billy Giacalone ever they could've been stuck locally, he had postal facilities thoroughly checked. A NORMAL DAY out here for the Reagans begins with breakfast and a couple hours of League of Cities in Detroit LEAGUE, from Page 3A of Reagan's advisory commission on federalism. VICE-PRESIDENT George Bush, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Budget Director David Stockman all declined invitations to speak at the convention. Local officials participating in the conference include Mayor Young, Livonia Mayor Edward McNamara, Detroit City Council President Erma Henderson, state Welfare Director John Dempsey, and Gary Krause, acting director of the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority.

The league, which last met in Detroit in 1965, bills itself as the oldest, largest and most representative organization of municipal officials in the country. It sometimes engages in a friendly rivalry with another group of municipal leaders, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, for pre-eminence as said I owed the money and I paid because I had heard what had happened to other people Cards were nowhere to be found. At that horseback riding, with the president riding Little Man, a thoroughbred, and wearing faded said. Robb denied he was stealing.

In 1974, Marchesani was jailed for extortion. He had told Robb to forward payments from the bar sale to his family, according to court documents. HOWEVER, Robb said he who hadn't paid," Robb said. point, official said "They're out in the field somewhere." That left you up in AS AN INDICATION of the jeans, cowboy boots and an old shirt. "It's violent world in which Robb always seemed nicer to me to ride in the the air until customers began to confirm last week that they were finally mornings, said Reagan, explaining that the operated, court documents indicate that one of his acquaintances was Peter Vassello, afternoons are for chores.

getting calendar ads. By the way, Postal Service expects' 20 million additional "It never ceases," said Bamett. "You could be computed that, because of various financial losses that he blamed on Marchesani in up there for 30 years, and every day you'd still whose handless, strangled body was found floating in a pieces of mail sent from Detroit during holiday season. To reach destination by have something to do." tiver. However, Reagan, Bamett and LeBlanc do Christmas, mail should be sent before RANCH, from Page 1A coastline at Refugio State Park, past gullies, wildf lowers and groves of lemon and avocado trees, before it goes up into the Santa Ynez Mountains.

THE REAGANS bought the ranch for half a million dollars in 1974, when the house on it was little more than a shack with a corrugated aluminum roof. With the help of Barney Bamett, Reagan knocked out the walls, laid a vinyl floor in the veranda and installed a tile roof. Reagan has two helpers at the ranch Bamett, a burly 68-year-old retired highway patrolman who used to serve as Reagan's driver, and Dennis LeBlanc, a rangy, 35-year-old former California state policeman who now serves at the White House as deputy director of special support services. "And we WE put that tile down," Nancy Reagan said, pointing to a picture of the veranda. "And WE painted that.

Nobody will believe that, but it's true!" The documents indicate not chop down any trees. Instead, they put three chain saws into the back of an old Jeep and head that Robb was told during an Dec. 10 with correct zip code, naturally, underworld meeting that Vas cluding $13,000 he invested in Marchesani's loansharking operation he was owed more by Marchesani than the balance from the bar sale. Therefore, he said, he stopped forwarding the payments to Marchesani's family. out to places where trees or branches have already been downed because of old age or bad sello's failure to repay a debt "might make the difference weather.

After sawing the wood, the men split it with why Mr. Vassello is jiot here i ninK sailing now? My a machine the Reagans gave each other as a now." Robb said he first met Zer Robb testified that he was friend and I had a tough time this past summer trying to find a sailing club for Christmas present last year. The president used to split logs with axes, wedges and a sledgeham afraid to go into loansharking illi in the mid-1970s through a people with no experience. This may be' the representative of urban mutual interest in raising pedi mer, but his new hydraulic splitter shoves the greed dogs. Eventually, he an unseasonable request, but can you put Hikers change logs with great force against a wedge, and they split automatically with a loud crack.

asked Zerilli to intervene in the us In touch with such a group, so we can be ready before sailing weather returns? MANY CITY officials who are active in one. organization do not participate In the other. Mayor Young, for example, is a during trek K.J., Detroit money dispute with Marchesani. "From the people I was hanging around with," Robb said, "I was definitely under the impression Mr. Zerilli was Senator charges perjury in Abscam Cast off with American Youth Hostels.

HIKERS, from Page3A key leader of the Mayors Conference but has shown little Membership costs $14 a year for Individ THE HIKERS became inter ABSCAM, from Page 1A uals, $21 a year for families. versations released Friday that interest in the League of Cities in previous years. the head of the Mafia in the city of Detroit." IN THE FALL of 1979, soon Most big-city mayors pre ested in Nepal through Larry Brilliant, a professor in the University of Michigan's school of public health. Brilliant spent five years in Nepal fer to participate in the Mayors after Robb moved to Florida, Conference because they feel AYH's fleet of boats sails -oa Kent Lake and Lake St. Clair and in Kensing ing before the Senate votes on whether to expel him.

NEITHER GOLD nor Dir would discuss what the new evidence is. But Dir said it "casts severe doubt" on the proceeding which led to Wil they re among their peers, a mayoral aide said. "They don't a country in the Himalaya Mountains between India and Tibet with a team of doctors ton and Stoney like to think that some city councilman or city manager pelled. The government accused Williams of agreeing to trade his influence as a senator for a 1 00 million loan for a titanium mining venture in which he had an interest. An FBI agent posed as' a wealthy Arab businessman who was willing to pay for favors from public officials.

MEANWHILE, a businessman convicted in the Abscam investigation told undercover agents in tape-recorded con Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, was "on the take." "The guy is definitely taking contributions," the defendant, Alfred Carpentier, said of D'Amato. "He's on the take." Carpentier is an East Meadow, N.Y., businessman who was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday in connection with Abscam. He made the allegations about D'Amato in two conversations with FBI investigators in the case. from the World Health Organi Creek parks.

has a vote equal to theirs. liams' Involvement in the Abscam case. Livonia Mayor McNamara, zation working to eradicate smallpox, one of the major causes of blindness. however, feels that the league A federal jury found Wil a more balanced and repre After he returned in 1979, liams guilty May 1 of bribery Group offers sailing classes to all AYH members, and prior experience isn't required. sentative organization.

The Mayors Conference is he and several other doctors Involved in the project formed SEVA. and conspiracy. The Senate Ethics Committee voted Aug. 24 to recommend he be ex a big-city group," McNamara said. "I don think they re re Patricia Ball, 26, Brilliant's presentative.

I have problems very different from most big secretary, said she became en After participants pass test showing they've mastered craft, Mankind's oldest shrine discovered cities. I've seen council people gaged during the trek and was married in Santa Fe, N.M., on snubbed at their meetings. SHRINE, from Page 1A they can take THE STONE HEAD is a particularly significant find since it portrays a face that is half human and THE MAYORS Conference boats out on their Thanksgiving Day. Her new husband is a long-time friend who managed to catch up with her occasionally on the trail. dominated by Democrats find "Is the oldest intact, dedicated religious site we can prove in the world." while the league is more con She said the group averaged Evidence for religious belief goes back at least servative.

As a result, Demo between 30 and 40 miles a day 50,000 years, he said. cratic presidents, such as Jim own. But don't wait for summer. AYH also sponsors winter activities such as skiing. For more info, call 545-0511 between 10 a.m.

and 8 p.m. Mondays or Wednesdays; 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. other weekdays. Or write 3024 Coolidge, Berkley 48070.

my Carter, have 'developed to complete the walk so she could get married on time. "However, almost all of this evidence deals close links with the Mayors with death, which is only part of a religious belief half animal, a unique discovery for this era, the scientists said. "There is no other case in Paleolithic (Stone Age) art of a face divided by a midline into two halves, each with a different nature," Freeman said. The free-standing stone sculpture is 14 inches tall, 13 inches wide and eight inches deep. The makers took a rock that had a natural vertical fissure and used this crack to divide the face.

A horizontal crack across the lower part of the surface became the basis of a mouth on both sides. system," Freeman said. ABOUT $35,000 has been Conference while Republican presidents, such as Ronald Reagan, feel more comfortable "At El Juyo, this site has nothing to do with raised so far by the group, which received pledges before death. Its symbolism is more universal and tells us with the league. he learned Marchesani had been released from Leavenworth federal prison.

At about the same time, Robb said, he got a call from Zerilli saying that he had friends from Toledo who were Interested in developing some land near Robb's Florida home. Robb said he received a series of subtle threats from Marchesani, including "see you soon" messages on a Valentine card and a telegram. Also, on three seperate occasions in 1980, he found dead sparrows on the doorstep of his Florida business. "I took it to mean it could be my neck that was broken, not the sparrows'," he said. Meanwhile, Zerilli told Robb that he was becoming increasingly impatient, and that "the static and rumblings on the street were getting worse" because of Zerilli's perceived softness toward Robb in the Marchesani dispute.

"I was petrified," Robb He instructed his wife and daughter to let him start their cars when they wanted to drive because he feared the vehicles might be wired with bombs. He also said the family always returned home by early evening. Finally, he said, he contacted the FBI. A MEETING was arranged with Zerilli July 1, 1980, In Warren. Robb carried a hidden transmitter rigged by the FBI.

According to the tape, Zerilli agreed to mediate the money dispute, but he Insisted on binding arbitration: "What-ever way I call it, it goes." Referring to Marchesani, Robb said, "This guy would kill me In a minute." Zerilli, whom Robb referred to occasionally as "Your honor," reportedly replied, "Not with me In the picture." about other aspects of the belief system. But while the league is more Its departure based on the number of miles they walked. "For example, the fact that hunting weapons Irish school of hope a while back, your paper ran an article about a conservative than its big-city were kept separate from sewing implements in the Merritt, who graduated last counterpart, McNamara said On one side of the rock Is the face of a smiling he believes opposition to Rea special school in Northern Ireland that brings together Catholic and Protestant man with mustache and beard, the scientists said. sanctuary strongly suggests that the difference between male and female roles in the material culture was also important to the religious ceremonies," Freeman said. gan's budget cuts is equally On the other is the face of a cat, with a muzzle, spring from U-M, celebrated his 24th birthday on the trip.

His cohorts feted him with Sara Lee Pound Cake, complete with candles and party hats. strong In both organizations. whiskers and a single, pointed tooth. children. I'd like the address to the school so I can donate some money to this good cause.

Can you get the Information for me? "There were times when I thought I wouldn't make it," A Libyan threat or much ado about nothing? L.M., Dearborn Heights Merritt said of the trip. But he said he feels changed by his experience. LIBYAN, from Page 1A Glad to. Article you remember discussed Lagan College, a grammar school in Ulster. School is a two-month-old ven "Some old news has been dressed up to look new by television people (at ABC "I ve got a lot more confi News), that's it in a nutshell.

We're always concerned about the possibility of terror ture by parents of Protestant and Catholic children, who are trying to break ists from any country. But this stuff is for whatever reason, has decided to bolster Its security for U.S. officials and there's really nothing bad about that but what bothers us is the growing belief that the report on which the move is based is essentially gleaned from old news reports," a Justice Department official said. much to-do about nothing." dence, less afraid of what other people think, more willing to stand on my own two feet," Merritt said. "I found out that If there's something you want to do you can do it." centuries-old tradition of religious seg If federal law-enforcement officials in regation in education.

It was founded by Detroit are concerned about the terrorist Tafoya, a 47-year-old former Green Beret accused of trying last year to kill a Libyan attending Colorado State University. Intrigue was added to the case when it was revealed that Tafoya is an associate of Edwin Wilson, a former CIA agent who quit the intelligence agency and, among his various dealings, worked for Khadafy. It has also been alleged during Tafoya's trial that other Libyan-paid killers are In the United States on assignment from Khadafy. i "WHEN YOU PUT ALL THAT together, you can easily see what has happened," a Justice Department official said Friday. threat, they are hiding it well.

Federal law-enforcement sources, wno He added: "There doesn't "The way things are going, we're going seem to be a link between four Tony Spencer, professor at a nearby university. Spencer wanted a better education for his 11-year-old daughter. Action Line talked to Spencer's wife in Belfast, who told us parents of 31 Lagan asked not to be named, cite a series of articles about Khadafy that has appeared to start getting calls from people seeing camels coming across the Detroit River in Time and Newsweek magazines. The people walking 3,000 miles to help some people 10,000 miles away. rafts, said one official.

magazines reported the possible threat of In fact, immigration officials noted that Libyan terrorists. "But the tie-In Is that very they have been receiving an extremely In the Nov. 30 Issue of Newsweek, the students are footing bills entirely through private donations. Checks can be made out to Lagan College and mailed to Lagan College, in care of 16 Osborne difficult tasks can be accomplished by determined people." magazine reported on the trial of Eugene large number of calls from citizens con-cerned about the reported threat. Gardens, Belfast BT9 6LE, Northern Ireland.

We asked whether you are Irish. Your answer was, "No, I'm Mexican. But this is a small beginning." Kemp gets traded to center field for Chicago and could take that job in Detroit, with Kirk Gibson possibly replacing Kemp In left. Lemon Is a two-time American League All Star who batted .302 with nine home runs and 50 runs batted in the strike-shortened 1981 season. Kemp, who played on the 1979 All-Star team with Lemon, finished 1981 with a .277 average, nine home runs and 49 runs team's leadoff hitter next year.

Kemp learned of the trade when contacted by the Free Press. "Chicago?" he asked. "White Sox or "It's kind of a I'm going to miss the city (Detroit) a lot. Of course, a lot of people will be real happy to hear the news. As you know, I got booed a lot in Detroit." KEMP, a 27-year-old veter batted in.

Lemon next summer will be in the last season of a four-year contract extension he signed with the Sox. While productive at the plate and aggressive on the base paths, he was criticized by fans, team management and announcers for getting thrown out too often and for sliding head first into first base. an of five major league seasons, was signed by the Tigers in the 1976 rookie draft. He is expected to play left field for the White Sox, according to Chicago general manager Roland Hemond. Replacing Lemon In center will be former Tiger LeFlore, who went to the Expos for pitcher Dan Schatzeder In December 1979.

Lemon, a 26-year-old veteran of seven seasons, has played KEMP, from Page 1A was a matter of which player would be better suited for (our) needs." 1 "CHET IS FASTER," Tiger manager Sparky Anderson said. "And he has a better arm for the outfield." Anderson said he was glad to have a right-handed hitter in his heavily left-handed lineup and added that Lemon may be the Dasi Raider Action Line editors consider every request vou send us. We Dublish the most White Sox interesting and helpful answers. We re gret that we cannot answer or acknowl edge individual requests..