European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes tuesday december 8.19b7 Union says referendum showed up Warsaw Warsaw Poland a Solidarity said sunday that last week s referendum defeat shows thai political and economic reforms arc impossible in Poland As Long As communist authorities alone decide government policy. In a communique signed by its Lead ers the outlawed labor federation called the referendum outcome a vote of no. Confidence in the government and demanded that Solidarity s Legal status be restored. In the nov. 29 Vole govern Mcnol backed Reform proposals got a two thirds majority of the ballots cast but not i he majority of the entire electorate required to Matte the results binding the government contends that the referendum cannot realty be called a defeat pointing to the wide majority of yes Voles cast in an election that Drew slightly More than two thirds of eligible vol is. Approval of the referendum would have meant immediate Steep Price in creases at part of a plan to make the Economy More responsive to Market conditions. The government says defeat will mean More gradual Price rises the number of people who decided to ignore the referendum or to give negative answers. Is evidence of gradual Awakening of social moods arid determination to defend social and civil rights said the communique issued by Solidarity National spokesman Janusz Onysz Kic Wiki. At the pc Wal moment in is More Clear than Ever that he realization of indispensable economic and political re forms requires a Velum to the social con tracts reached Between workers and communist authorities when Solidarity was created in 1980, the statement said the contracts the first of their kind in he soviet bloc promised the right 10 Independent Trade unions and limitations on censorship. Solidarity was banned after the de Cember 1981 martial Law crackdown but its leadership has functioned More or less openly since a 1986 political amines. European opinions pm in Twe up Row to which 11 doing Tea Moil to re does us a Rac . I 1ussr i "1 both eoe3 Don Letnow Unildo kingdom Chicago to tuna Chan source a. Dave consultancy flow Tonjum. Than la Hal i Survey shows britons blame . For arms race London a britons blame the United slates More than the soviet Union for the nuclear arms race according to a Survey of British altitudes toward nuclear weapons. The study made by Reading University and the polling organization Taylor Nelson Monitor found that 49 percent of britons think the United Stales is responsible for continuing the arms race compared with 45 per cent who blame the. Soviet Union. The Survey questioned 2,347 peo ple aged 16 and older. In publishing selected findings from the study Reading s depart ment of politics said 50 percent of britons believe the arms race will continue despite .-soviet Initia Tives to reduce their Avenali. Thirty percent of those questioned said they did not think the arms race would continue at the current rate and 20 percent said they did no know. The Survey was carried out before the superpowers reached agreement 10 eliminate medium and Shorter Range nuclear weapons the subject of this week s Summit Between president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Authors of the study said in is the most comprehensive Ever undertaken in Britain to determine attitudes to Ward nuclear weapons. They said it was modelled on a . Survey voters options on nuclear arms policy conducted by the pub Lic Agenda foundation and Brown University prior to the 1984 elect Ion. The Reading study found that 44 percent of those questioned believe that a nuclear conflict is inevitable. In the . Study 6s percent said they thought nuclear War would occur if the superpowers continued to build up their nuclear arsenals. On the question of nuclear survival 82 percent of britons said they did not think they could survive a nuclear conflict eight percent thought they could and 10 percent said they did not know. The . Study said 77 percent of american believed they would have a poor Chance of survival if there were a nuclear War. No statistical margin of error was stated for the new study to be published in full next year. The communique was the Union s first official statement since he vote. It assigned by Lech Walesa a founder and former Leader of Solidarity and nine members of the Union s National executive commission. The statement dated saturday was agreed upon at a meeting in Gdansk. In called for dismantling of legislation strengthening police Powers enacted after imposition of martial Law Freedom to form associations restoration of Trade Union rights and return of Solidarity s Legal status. Before the referendum the federation denounced the vote As purely propaganda and advised people it was not Worth at Landing. But it did not wage an Active Boycott Campaign. The polish society is aware of the necessity of reforms economic and political but has no Confidence in the Nomen Latura party privileged elite kind of monopoly of the authorities the postelection communique said. Independent unions and associations would help provide a social shield for the reforms helping to guarantee their implementation and protecting the eco nomic interests of the people the statement said. Economic Reform May not be the cause of declining material and social status of people the statement said. Re forms should make in possible that one will be Able to live belter and with dignity without desperate concern about to  polish society May not accept the policy which replaces the Complete re form with Price hikes it added. In a Telephone interview later Onysz Kiewicz said society gained a Victory and now we gained  that Confidence should be channelled into open activity to further electoral re forms and to push for pluralism the allowing of a wide variety of Public views to be heard through publications and associations he said society is getting out of a kind of apathy no said. Now is a Good moment to increase  $4 billion roil 2000 planned to upgrade Swiss transport system Bern Switzerland a voters in Switzerland which already has one of the world s most efficient Public transportation systems on sunday backed aj4 billion project designed to make the system even More efficient. Voters in a nationwide referendum approved the rail 2000" project which Aims at enticing More people to use the Public transportation system by creating better infrastructure and belter connections. The final result was 56.5 percent in favor and 43.5 percent against. In a Surprise decision on another Issue voters also supported an Environ mental initiative to protect some of he country s wetlands. That vote. 57.9 per cent to 42.1 percent effectively hinders the army s plans to expand a training ground in Central Switzerland where some of the wetlands Are located. Opponents of the initiative had called it anti army. The vote indicated that concern for the environment is still top priority in Switzerland As has been shown in previous Public opinion polls. The Rait 2000" plan Aims at offering commuters faster and belter connections improving infrastructure by mov ing bus stops closer to train stations win Ning More freight clients and constructing new locomotives. With 3,100 Miles of Railroad tracks and another 9,300 Miles of bits and other Public transport lines the Swiss network is already the most concentrated in the world. Only one out of every 40 Swiss House holds is More than i of a mile away from a Public transport Stop according to Peter Merz a spokesman for the Swiss Federal railways at Bern .2 million Reward offered for Lead in palme murder new York times new York stymied in their at tempts to find leads in the killing of prime minister Olof palme the swedish police turned to a worldwide audience this weekend for help promising a Multi million Dollar Reward and anonymity. In an advertisement appearing in newspapers worldwide the swedish National police Board offered 50 million swedish Kroner about js.2 million for information that would help solve the murder of palme which occurred nearly two years ago. The Board a government Agency announced thai the swedish government would pay that amount either in Sweden or abroad in accordance with the legis lation of the country  the informant in added would be granted total  the text of the announcement appeared in English French and Spanish. According to a swedish embassy spokes Man in Washington the advertisement was placed in the new York times the los Angeles times and newspapers in other parts of the world when it might find a Large audience. Lars Romert the embassy s press Counselor said the swedish government decided last month to increase the re Ward tenfold from 5 million Kroner palme 59, was shot in Central Stock Holm on feb. 28, 1986, As he and his wife Lisbeth. Were walking Home from the movies without guards. Mrs. Palme was grazed by a Bullet As she Bent Over her husband s body. Earlier this year the swedish investigation was reported in disarray. Hans Hal mar who led the bunt for a year resigned As Stockholm s police chief i March saying the investigation had turned into a shambles he resigned four weeks after he was removed As the key investigator. Holmer accused he Succes sors or being disorganized and not up to the Job. Romert the embassy spokesman said there have been no really new developments. Just the contrary. The 5 million Kronor Reward did t result in any Good information he added. The Board thought that increasing the Reward substantially might gel