European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8, the stars and stripes tuesday March 31,1987 Olesa Calls Price hikes risky policy for Poland Warsaw Poland a Lech Walesa told cheering crowd outside a Gdansk Church on sunday that Poland is sitting on a powder Keg with the new Steep food and gasoline Price increases. Solidarity sup porters said. The Price hikes have also been opposed by the communist dominated Trade Union federation which has replaced the outlawed Solidarity labor movement in bargaining with the  last week the Fader alien forced the govern ment to reduce food Price hikes from planned 13 percent to 9.6 percent. Such increases have led to riots in the past. On sunday the first stage of Price increases went into effect. The Cost of Basic food items Suchias bread sugar milk and butter Rose by an average of 9.6 percent gasoline r to. . 25 percent and cigarettes can Walesa and alcohol 20 percent the official news Agency Pap said. Walesa a founder and former Leader of Solidarity and Winner of the 1983 Nobel peace prize spoke to crowd of about 1,500 people at St. Brygida s Church in the Baltic port of Gdansk. We Are sitting on a powder Keg. People Are really fed up he was quoted As saying by supporters at the rally who were contacted by Telephone. They said Walesa stopped Short of calling for Indus trial action but pledged that Solidarity activists nationwide would support the wishes of factory workers. I am against Price rises As being against the Only sign of economic Reform. 1 am far reforms. I favor the reforms which soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is carrying out. But i am not in favor of make believe reforms Walesa said according to the supporters. Poland s communist authorities maintain that the Price hikes through culling government subsidies Are a crucial part of their strategy in dealing with the eco nomic crisis. Price increases have historically been a volatile Issue among the polish working class. They led to wide spread worker unrest in 1970 and 1976. In 1980 they sparked nationwide strikes that culminated with the creation of Solidarity. The government signed accords recognizing Solidarity As a labor movement Independent of government control and began bargaining with it. But Solidarity s growing criticism of the communist system resulted in a government crackdown. Mania Taw was declared Solidarity was banned and most activists were jailed. Walesa an electrician who was Solidarity s National chairman works in the Lenin shipyards at Gdansk. The official. Communist dominated All Poland Trade Union Alliance which claims 6,5 million Mem Bers said the increases would lower living standards and seriously Hurt lower paid workers and pensioners. It had threatened protests. The finance ministry in a statement read Over state radio and television said it would meet Union de mands by increasing compensation payments to Low income groups. The government said that As of wednesday meal prices would go up an average of 10 percent and the Cost of Coal Gas electricity Central Healing and Howater by 23 percent to 51 percent. Ii said in scaled Down planned increases for Centra heating in response to demands from the official Trade Union federation. Postal Rales Are to Rise in april and bus and railway fares Are scheduled logo up in october the govern ment said. Lebanese gunmen tried lost year to kill italian general widow says Rome a the widow of an Kalian general slain by terrorists says that her husband was the target of another ambush last year Bui that two lebanese men arrested in the failed attempt eventually were freed italian news Media reported Sun Day. Giorgia Giorgeri widow of air Force Gen. Licio Giorgeri. Made the statement in an interview last week with the Magazine Famiglio Cristiana Chris Tian family. She also confirmed the interview s contents to several italian newspapers. According to the general s widow he told her he was Riding Home with an aimed escort last dec. I 5 when two Young men carrying guns on motorcycles caught up with his car. The police escort gave Chase and eventually apprehended iwo lebanese taking to pm to prison for interrogation she told Famiglio Cristiana. She said Giorgeri told her not Long before the March 20 a duct that claimed his life that the two had been freed. And according to the Giorgeri s Driver they were the same ones who then killed him she was quoted As saying. There have been previous news reports that Gior Gieri bad been followed by suspicious men on motorcycles but lebanese have never been singled out. Giorgeri known As Italy s Star Ware expert was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle while being driven Home. The gunmen escaped. He had no police escort at the Lime of the attack responsibility for which was claimed by a group linked with the left Wing terrorist red brigades. Top anti terrorism investigator Domenico Sica who is handling the Case was reportedly looking into the statements to Famiglio Cristana but he could not be reached for comment sunday. Adm. Mario Porta Secretary general of italian defense said saturday he had talked with Giorgeri the Day before his murder and he seemed very Calm according to la Siam a newspaper. To me he never said anything about that at tempt to kill him he added. Signora Giorgeri however is a very Strong and serious woman. So perhaps he did speak about this Wilh  s. African official apparent suicide Johannesburg South Africa a environmental affairs minister John Wiley died sunday of a gunshot wound at his Home near Cape town and police said they believe it was a suicide. Col. Sieve Van Rooyen spokesman at National police Headquarters in Pretoria said Wiley was found dead on his bed. With a Bullet wound in his right Temple and a ,32-Calibcr pistol near his body. Van Rooyen said the bedroom door had been locked. Wiley was a National party candidate for re election in the May 6 parliamentary elections for the House of Assembly the White chamber of the three chamber legislature for Whites indians and coloureds or people of mixed race. His opponent was John Scott former assistant Edi Tor of the Cape times newspaper a progressive Feder Al party candidate. A police spokesman said Wiley s wife went to the House in Noordhock near Simon town on the Cape Peninsula sunday morning and found in locked. He said she called her son Mark who lives  son climbed through a window about 11 30 . And opened the House. Wiley 60, became Deputy minister of environmental affairs in 1982 and moved up to the Post of min ister iwo years later. World today Gorbachev plans visit to Czechoslovakia soon Prague Czechoslovakia a soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev will make an offi Cial Visil to Czechoslovakia in the nearest future at twin invitation of the communist fail a Central committee the news Agency ctr said sunday. According to unofficial information Avail Able in Prague the Visil is to Lake place april 6-8. Gorbachev comes Ai a Lime when the Prague leadership which has appeared reluctant 10 con template economic and social reforms being instituted in the soviet Union is showing sign thai la wants 10 overhaul he sluggish centrally planned Economy. Turks celebrate return of Premier from . Ankara Turkev a turks slaughtered hundreds of sheep in the streets of this capital City sunday giving a rousing traditional moslem Welcome Home to Premier Sturgul Ozal after a two month absence. Ozal �0, had been in the United Stales since feb. 2 to undergo a triple coronary bypass operation in Houston Texas. He arrived in Ankara from London where the Premier plunged from convalescence into 16-hour work Days in helping resolve a Dis Pute Over undersea Oil exploration rights thai brought Turkey and Greece to the Brink of War.  estimated 300,000 people thronged the 23-mile route from Ese Boga Airport to downtown Ankara to cheer and wave to the Premier. Helicopters tossed Flowers on the crowd fro above while Rose water was hosed on spectators from Tanker tracks. New terror group claims it planted Barcelona bomb Madrid Spain up a previously unknown catalan separatist group sunday claimed a car bombing in Barcelona that killed a paramilitary civil guard and injured 15 people. An Anonymous caller said the catalan re liberation army had carried out the attack Friday at the Entrance to Barcelona s port against the Spanish occupation forces the female voice said it was the group s first military action. A Barcelona police spokesman had no com ment on the claim. Officials initially said they believed the bomb packed with 66 pounds of explosives was the work of the Basque separatist Organ. Nation Eta. A member of the civil guard Antonio Gonzalez Herrera 26, died in the blast. Libyan problem solved Sudan s president says Khartoum Sudan a prime min ister sack Al Mahdi told his Cabinet on Sun Day thai the Issue of the presence of Libya troops in Western Sudan had been settled but he did not say whether the libyans had Actu ally withdrawn. The problem of the presence of libyan troops in the country s Western Border has now come to an end and the existing problem has been resolved at political and military lev Els following a recent Contact with the Libya leadership Al Mahdi said. His comments were earned by the Sudan news Agency. The Agency reported cd Mahdi said the Issue has ended at this extent and would no longer be on the Cabinet s Agenda. It did not elaborate