European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1985 world today Fri director praises War against organized crime Italy up Fri director William attending a conference on has praised the joint Effort aimed at eradicating organized but alluding to a wave of recent arrests of mafia suspects on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to evidence by former mafia Boss Tommaso indicated that much remains to be to fight the mafia would take so Many Busceti Webster he praised Rome and Washington for having Given life to a partnership under which representatives from both governments meet twice a year to discuss common crime problems and to Speed up extradition 3 turkish political refugees charged with arson by Greece Athens up three turkish political refugees have been arrested and charged with a ministry of Public order official ministry Secretary general Thanassis Tsouras said the three identified As Ali afian Kolak and had been found in Possession of incendiary devices in Northern Greece when fierce Forest fires destroyed almost a sixth of the nations natural at the Peak of the Forest prime minister Andreas Papandreou accused in a planned of burning Greece forests for political open will meet in october to discuss production quotas Vienna up open members will meet in Vienna in october to discuss the divisive Issue of production an organization spokesman the meeting of the organization of Petroleum Export ing scheduled for is expected to focus on production the toughest Issue facing the Petroleum participants expect a difficult and heated saudi Arabia refuses to continue bearing the sole Brunt of cutting production to support although it has an ii production Only Mil lion barrels a Day were turned out in Africa halts dealings in its currency Cape South Africa a the government announced tuesday night that it has sus Pended All trading in its stocks and in its plunging the for the rest of the week in order to halt the flight of capital from the finance minister Barend Duplessis cited abnormal pressure on the country balance of the Rand was Worth More than a Dollar three years but hit cents major Rea sons for its decline were the falling Price of Gold and the racial violence that began a year costing the lives of More than 600 since a state of emergency was imposed july 21 in an attempt to control the uprising against White Rule by South Africa Black the Rand has lost 10 cents in these Steps have been taken so that South Africa can continue to meet All International Duplessis in announcing the action in a statement from the administrative dealers said there was a Rush for foreign Curren cies because of reports that foreign Banks were Call ing in maturing Loans and refusing to extend credit to companies in South Duplessis said South Africa would negotiate with affected including Blac ruled neigh Bors like whose currencies Are tied to the to allow orderly circumstances to in an evident reference to the the finance minister said the balance of payments was under abnormal pressure unrelated to what he said were healthy underlying economic French Concession eases tension with new zealand new zealand a prime min ister David Lange said wednesday that France had con ceded the possibility of guilt in the bombing and sinking of the Rainbow the flagship of the environmental group Lange described a statement by French prime minister Laurent Fabius As conciliatory and said it helped ease mounting tension Between the two countries Over the Inci it is not a provocative denunciation of new it is not a in fact it concedes the possibility of Lange said in a nationally broadcast Fabius on tuesday ordered an investigation into what he called unspecified deficiencies in the French secret after a report cleared his government of blame in the sinking of a Greenpeace but Fabius said he had no new elements at this stage that would permit me to contradict the conclusions of the initial according to the French government six French agents were spying on the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor when two explosions blew out its Hull on july killing one the report said the French agents were not responsible for the but two have been charged by new zealand with arson and the Rainbow Warrior had been preparing to sail to French polynesia to protest French nuclear testing in the South Lange repeated the suggestion he made tuesday that France May wish to recall its Jacques Bour for he moved to smooth Over a growing Diplo Matic Row when he i would not want to take the step of rupturing what is clearly an constructive dialogue with France by dispatching the Lange said Fabius remarks on French television were not an apology in any specific but Are very con i think that we have come the closest to a con a photo French prime minister Laurent Fabius possibility of guilt Struc Tive apology that we Are going to Fabius told reporters tuesday that administrative control of the French intelligence system does not seem satisfactory to and said there were important deficient he said he would order intelligence officials to give a full accounting of How they Monitor and control the activities of he also emphasized Frances condemnation of the Inci Dent and pledged that the French Justice system would act immediately if French citizens were implicated in Crimi Nal on Lange denounced the French report As inconsistent and transparent said that his minimal position is that France must Alesa urges poles to rebuild Solidarity instead of striking Warsaw a Solidarity chairman Lech stating that poles would never give up Freedom for slav urged supporters tuesday to rebuild the outlawed labor movement at the grassroots level in factories across the country rather than stage costly strikes and Demon in a statement issued to Mark the upcoming fifth anniversary of the signing of the Gdansk accords that gave birth to Walesa said communist authorities would not succeed in their efforts to destroy All those who dream about life in Freedom and five years ago we took a huge gulp of democracy said referring to the accords be tween communist authorities and workers in Gdansk legitimizing Solidarity As the first free Trade Union in the soviet bloc and ending paralysing labor i would like to remind those in Power that the authorities pass away but the nation no nation in the polish nation will give up Freedom for slavery and democracy for in the which was read Over the Telephone to Western reporters by an aide at Walesa Gdansk apart the 41yearold Nobel peace prize Winner said that the decline in support for strikes and Street demonstrations did not indicate the society had agreed to its demonstrations and strikes in our where big police forces bring considerable losses among those who take for these we resort to them he we do not need millions of demonstrators fighting against police but Small Wise groups composed of thinking people with Broad building slowly but effectively Concrete Walesa said after the 1981 imposition of martial Law that ended the unions 16 months of Legal it was necessary for Solidarity to Start offering positive solutions to Poland social and economic crisis rather than just react negatively to the authorities Coli these solutions in needed at the lowest Levels of the society in factories and enter said the shipyard we for the time not interested in Central or provincial he urged supporters to undertake activities concerned with labor Union issues concerning economic and social problems of concern to Walesa did not mention any specific but he has said he will present a comprehensive program for workers rights in connection with the 31 Annivera Solidarity supporters in cities throughout Poland Are planning to Mark the fifth anniversary of the Gdansk signing on saturday at masses and Wreath polish government spokesman Jerzy Urban told a War saw news conference tuesday that the authorities see no need for a dialogue with Walesa and do not treat his statements about offering a program As i think Walesa lives in a reality he invents him Urban we look not and of Poland Are different than those when Walesa had a possibility of constructive cooperation but did not take advantage of m in his Walesa declared that the authorities torpedoed the August 1980 Gdansk but he said Solidarity is still ready to seek an agreement with the he said Solidarity will not resign from the defense of our Basic including the right to possess Independent and he emphasized that social resistance is not despite the governments efforts to strip away remaining democratic freedoms by passing repressive leg m the Solidarity chairman accused the government of proceeding along a path leading to nowhere by putting ideology Over common in an apparent reference to Western economic sanctions imposed in response to the 1981 military crackdown that crushed the free Trade unions founder said Roland needs material assistance but Only if it will bring profit to All the society and not just permit the authorities to cover up their wrong c Walesa and 53 other prominent Solidarity activists issued a statement demanding the release of Tadeusz who is under investigation on charges of treason by the military prosecutors office for Nis activities As a Leader of the unions underground
