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Show Tb Peg Two KJondcy, January 4, 1tS2 DcSr Utxh FuOM TK2 ACCOCIATOD Budget ax hits Nixon tape cataloging NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Gdansk shipyards operations to reopen Aides expect Allen's resignation Industrial operations at Poland's Gdansk shipyards, idled since martial law was imposed three weeks ago, were scheduled to resume Monday. Solidarity sources, in reports reaching the West, said the regime has tried to purge the PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-Th- e WhiteHouseinvestigationof national security adviser Richard V. Allen could be finished as early as Monday, leading to a meeting between Allen and President Reagan, whose aides say Allen will be replaced by top State Department Official William P. Glark. Western sources, meanwhile, said Sunday that Poland has come up with the $350 million needed to avoid technical Premier Gen. default on its $26.5 billion foreign debt. returns Monday to Washington after a week-lon- g vacation in California, one of his top priorities will be clearing up the Allen issue and overhauling the White House Foreign policy operation. Allen, Reagan's national security assistant since the administration took office, has been on administrative leave with pay since Nov. 29 while the Justice Department investigated the circumstances surrounding $1,000 found in a safe in an office once used by Allen. workforce of suspected troublemakers. Wojciech Jaruzelski's government twice has postponed reopening the shipyards, which strikers seized in August 1980 in what became the birth of the free trade union Solidarity. This time, according to uncensored reports reaching the West, officials hawe issued new work cards to try to weed out activists for the suspected union and others who might organize resistance. According to a Solidarity publication dated Dec. 30, 20 Polish factories, including several in Gdansk, were scheduled to reopen Monday. All reportedly had been closed since martial law was declared Dec. 13. Another center of resistance has been Wroclaw, where the Pafawag railroad car factory is a focus of worker anger. It also was scheduled to reopen Monday. Radio Warsaw often cites a railroad car shortage as a reason for delayed coal deliveries. According to uncensored reports, Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski told West German officials last week that his country was ready to pay the $350million the rest of 1981 interest due. The reports quoted Western sources as saying that because and Poland's hard c urrenc y reserv es are virtually since no Western institution or government was knownto have non-existe- nt provided cash, it was assumed the money came from the Soviet bloc , probably Moscow. There was no way to confirm the reports. Journalists must file dispatches through a censor, and telephone and telex communications have been cut. The Kremlin on Sunday accused the Reagan administration which lias imposed economic sanctions on Poland because of martial law of violating the Helsinki ac cords by allegedly bac king a plot against Poland's soc ialist system and then using economic sanctions to demand policy changes. On Saturday, the martial law government proposed huge after new price hikes .on basic foodstuffs, less than a week rationing was imposed. The Polish urrenc y was devalued c fi otn 35 to 80 zlotys tothe As Reagan Allen has said the money was given by representatives of a Japanese magazine who interviewed Nancy Reagan last Jan. 2 1 . The Justice Department said Dec. 23 it has cleared Allen of any wrongdoing. A White House spokesman said Sunday that Allen had asked piesidential counselor Edwin Meese III for a meeting with Reagan. While no such meeting was on the schedule, "it could come as early as Monday," said the spokesman. There were strong signals that Reagan's top advisors would like Allen to resign, thus saving Reagan the trouble of firing him. 1 Gulf spokesman supports Saudi plan A spokesman for six conservative Persian Gulf states urged the Arab world Sunday to shelve differences and put Israel on the spot by unanimously endorsing Saudi Arabia's Middle East peace plan. "So far theie is no alternative to the Saudi plan on the .Arab assistant secretary-genera- l front." Ibrahim Hammond of the Gulf Cooperation Council, said in remarks c arried by the offic ial Saudi press agenc y. "It isa pressingnecessity that the Arabs beunited in resisting the Israeli strategy of dealing with individual Arabstalcs. Had there been Arab unanimity. Israel would not havedared annex the Syrian Golan leighls." 1 The Aral) slates unanimously opposed Israel's annexation last month of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau the Israelis captured from Syria in the 19(57 Middle Fast War. The lT.N. Security Council isexpcctcdlomcc-- this week loconsider the next step to take, since Israel called its demand to drop the t annexation "preposterous." The Saudi plan promised last August by Saudi Crown Prince Kahd calls on Israel to relinquish all Arab territory seized in 1967. It also wants Israel to dismantle all Jewish settlements on that territory and accept an independent Palestinian state with Arab Fast Jerusalem as its capital. In exchange, it implies Arab-wid- e recognition of Israel as a Jewish slate. I'ahd's plan has the cndoipcmcnt of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which unites the states ol Saudi Arabia. Kuwiat. the 1'nitcd Arab Emirates. Bahrain. Qatar andOman in an economic cooperation and collec tive security pac t. Syria. Libya. Iraq. Algeria and the Palestine Liberation Organization have cither rejected or voiced reservations about the plan. An cued in Fez. Morocco in Novcmlx-- collapsed Libya and Syria refused to attend. said the six GCC slates weir pressing hard for eatly resumption ol the summit, the Saudi agency reported. A I'nited Arab Emirates diplomat told the Associated Piess that radical Arab states vveie softening their opposition to the Fahd plan on grounds that "The least the Arabs should do under the circumstances istoshowihcrnitedSlatcsaihlKuel that they are united on what ihcv want and what they do not oil-ric- h Al-Sob- want." mc-mlx- r act of Congress. Archivist James H. Hastings, deputy director of the Nixon project, said that as a result, it will take twice as long as anticipated to have the materials prepared for release to the public. Disclosure will be delayed at least until 1987. he said. A 1974 law directed the archives, storehouse of the nation's records, to catalog the tapes and papers and to first make publ ic those dealing with "presidential abuses of power." Until now, the public has had access only to a relative handful of the Nixon tapes the 31 introduced as evidence in the trials of Nixon aides H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, Robert C. Mardian and John B. Connally. They are available at the archives to anyone who cares to hear them. After the law calling for the disclosure of all Watergate material found in the Nixon White House was passed, Nixon managed, through suits, to delay work on the materials until 1977. That year, the Supreme Court upheld the law and the project started. Now Nixon stands to win through budget cuts the delays he sought through court action. Those signals followed comments by one top Reagan aide that if Allen is ousted or leaves voluntarily, the unanimous Edward W. Elden. deputy archivist, said the budget cuts would fall heaviest on "the newest projects, which naturally have the newest people" and the Nixon project is a prime example. California. "It's a great loss of momentum," Welden said. "In effect, it's a generation of people getting zapped." The pink slips are going, by the end of February, to workers who have becomed skilled at deciphering the tapes difficult work because frequently two, three, or four people are heard talking at once. choice of Reagan's inner circle for a successor would be Clark, the deputy secretary of state and one of the most senior members of Reagan's inner circle of political friends from meeting with Allen was said by Meese to be likely as soon as the invesligiation to determine if Allen violated the A government code of ethics is completed. That could be asear.ly as Monday. One top official, who dec lined to be named, said that if Allen resigned and was cleared by the investigation beingconducted by deputy White House Counsel Richard Hauser, he knew of no reason why Allen wouldn't be given another job in the administration. Those working on the project needed security clearances. They will be difficult to replace, Hastings said. Arsonists set string of Vegas strip fires Young assumes Atlanta mayor post dollar. And Sunday, the ofiical PAP news agency released figures on the economy, saying Poland's national income dropped by almost 15 percent in 981. WASHINGTON Four thousand hours of Richard Nixon's W'hite House tapes which have never been disclosed will remain secret until 1987 as a result of budget cuts, government officials say. Dismissal notices, caused by a slash in the budget of the National Archives, are going to 12 of the 31 technicians who have been cataloging both the tapes and the 40 million pagesof written matter taken from the Nixon White House under an ATLANTA Andrew Young, no stranger to controversy during a career that stretched fronm Southern pulpits to the United Nations, moves into city government this week as mayor of Atlanta. Young, 49, lakes the oath of office Monday to become the second black mayor of this c ity of nearly 500,000. He suc ceeds Maynard Jackson, who was not eligible for reelection after serving eight years, and he inherits a budget crunch that could spark the first political battle of the new administration. t lit- c boost city taxes on a S 10,000 home from SI 32 toSl()-l- exclusive sc hool and county levies. There has been little enthusiasm for the tax increase from the City Council, whic h must approve the tax and spending package. Thus, to win that early battle-- . Youngis likely to have lo draw on the skills of oratory and persuasion developed during his days in the civ il rights movement, in Congress and in the United Nations. Boin in New Orleans, the son of a prosperous dentist and a teac her. Young studied for the ministry at Hartford Theologiocal Seminary in Connec ticut. He was ordained in the I'nited Church of Christ and served congregations in Alabama and Georgia. In n the ivil rights movement began. Young led a voter registration drive and worked with white youths in New York City for the National Council of Churches. A registration project in the South put him in touc h with Dr. Martin Luther King J r. N oting became one of King's top lieutenants and was in charge of the 19(53 demonstration in Birmingham. Ala., when Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor used fire hoses to lepel marc hers. After King was assassinated in 19(58. Young entered xditics and. alter one unstu esslul try. won a seat in e ss from Atlanta in 1972. making him first blac k Congressman from .Georgia since 1870. He campaigned for fellow Gcoigian Jimmy Cartel in the 197(5 piesidential campaign. Following his ejection. Carter olleieel Young the job of I'.S. Ambassador to the I'nited Nations. ha m.iyoial ite lion last lall was dec ided primaiilv along ku ial lines, despite Atlanta's icput at ion loi being heeol nine h ol the l.K i. .miiuosiiv ol othei Southern illcs. of c the-Cong- 1 c ! half-mile- began. ity's first blac k mayor, is leav ing office after 1982 budget of S178.9 million S15 million a recommending more than the city expects to lake in. Sinc e Atlanta is barred by law from deficit financing, Jackson has recommended raising property taxes, hureasionggarbage collect ion charges and cutting some c ily services. Young has endorsed both the budget which includes hiring 125 new polic e and esiablisbingsmall x)lice prec inc ts at 10 housing projec ts and the tax increase which would Jac kson, Sixteen fires were set in two hotels and complex in this glittering resort city, evacuation of scores of visitors but causing no forcing the or major damage injury, police said Sunday. Police suspected one or two people of setting the fires in s area. All rapid succession Saturday night within a the blazes were doused by automatic sprinklers or firefighters. "All of the fireswere set by open flame," Clark County Fire Deaprtment investigator Bill Kolar said. "They were very minor althoughthey could have become major." Kolar said witnesses at the Barbary Coast Hotel, the Flamingo Hilton and the apartment complex saw at least one and possibly two people around the areas where the fires LAS VEGAS, Nev. a nearby apartment c i "There were one or two guys seen." said Kolar. "We've got police looking for them now," The first fires, set "in window curtains, occ tired in elevator lobbies on the second and thrid floors of the Barbary Coast on the Las Vegas strip shortly after 7 p.m. and were extinguished by automatic sprinklers. Smoke forced the evacuation of guests from the third and fourth floors of the hotel and damage was estimated at 58,000. Less than an hour later, a nearby apartment complex was the sceneof eight fires. Kolar said six werestarted in storage-roomand two washrooms. All were quickly extinguished by firemen. s Reagans spend quiet desert holiday PALM SPRINGS, Re agan spent a quiet ation here, fitting in easily amongsomeof Americ an's n and richest people, who spend their winters in this desert c ity, playing golf and dining with each other. 'Their was little tose paratelbePresideniof thernitetlStates from the we althy who move here for the warm winter, settling into guarded eomjxmnds where signs warn potential trespassers to expec t an "armed response". For Re agan, who has annually spent New Year's Day here lot more t ban a decade, it was a four-da- y d routine of rising at 8:30 p.m. or later, studying briefing Ixxiks. and then dining with friends. The only scheduled meeting was Saturday's session villi Secretary of State Ale xander M. I laig. Jr., Deputv See retai v of State William P. Clark. Defense-Serctary Caspar Wcinbctgtr. and Michael K. Deaver. deputy e hief of the White House-Staff- . Re agan and his wife-- . Nancy, set up t amp at "Sunny lands," the estate owned by Walter Anncnberg, ilic multimillionaire publisher and former ambassador who has hoste d se v e ral other Republic an presielents.Annenlx rgand his wife, I e onoi r. have been the Reagans' New Year's eve hosts for more than a decade-- . One loriiK-- guest is former President Ford, who has built a home seve-ramiles away in the neighboring c itv of Raneho Milage. Calif.-Presidc- nt vac lxsl-know- slow-pace- 200-aer- e- r l |
