Show 7 2A Tbe Silt Like Tribune Thurvdav November 10 1088 Spotlight Gdansk Shipyard Fires Strike Leaders By Deborah G Seward Abbociated Frew Writer GDANSK Poland — Ieaderb of a btrike were fired Wedneb-dafor organizing the walkout to protest a government decibion to clobe Lernn Shipyard the birthplace of Solidarity btate media reported The announcement came hours after strikers at two shipyards ended their protests at the requebt of Solidarity leader Lecb Walesa who argued that there was "no other path than reconciliation " PAP news agency The state-rusaid the director of the Repair Shipyard in Gdansk "sacked the inspirators of the strike action” at the r 4 yard It did not mention firings at the other yard that was btruck the 1 Wisla Shipyard On Thursday "all employees will be admitted to worji with the exception of those who have been given one-da- Preachev “Reconciliation” It did not say how may workers were dismissed notice" PAP said The immediate publicity given the firings seemed to signal that authorities are taking a tough line against strikers The move also seemed likeWalesa who had ly to undercut urged strikers to moderate their actions Hundreds of mainly young workers went on strike Tuesday without Walesa s approv al demanding reversal of a government order to begin liquidation of the LeIi Shipyard on Dec 1 They ended the strikes after repeated appeals from Walesa and a threat of dismissals from management "I would like to thank very much all the striking people the youth for subordinating to my request” Walesa said at St Erygida's Church a headquarters of the banned trade union soon after hearing of the end of the second strike W'alesa argued that striking was counterproductive at the moment and attention should be focused on starting blocked talks with authorities and the opposition on Poland s future "For Poland there is no other path than reconciliation meeting halfway to solve our problems including social political and economic pluralism" he told reporters Eut he added "We will fight for the shipyard sooner or later and we will regain it " An undetermined number of workers gave up a strike Wednesday morning at Wisla Shipyard which makes yachts and small river craft after being promised that those who took part in the strike would not be fired the yard's strike leader Jan Stanecki said He said several hundred workers supported the strike "We decided to leave because it made no sense to fight" he said Watergate Figure John Mitchell Dies at 75 Continued From A-- l election committee official who served eight months in prison in connection with Watergate crimes recalled Mitchell on Wednesday evening as "a great mentor and friend of mine and I just loved that man" “When I worked for him on the Nixon campaign I pera had great regard for him" sonally said Magruder who is now a minister at the First Community Church in He was a Columbus Ohio " mentor for me and kind of a father figure He was a wonderful man and I'm very sad to hear that news of Mitchell's death)" James F Neal the chief trial counsel in the Watergate case recalled Mitchell as "an easy man to know and associate with" "He committed offenses and I prosecuted him" said Neal in an interview in Nashville Tenn but he added that "John Mitchell and I got along very pleasantly during that There never was any bittime terness" 297 Dead in 1 Chinese Village Remoteness Delays Quake Relief BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers are being forced to trek on foot through heavily wooded mountain regions to reach some villages devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 930 people in southern China Beijing Radio said Wednesday "The obstacles to rescue are much worse than experts at first believed" it "said It said the village of Zhan- - mapo believed the worst hit with 297 dead was accessible only by a footpath and that this had been blocked by a landslide "The victims can only be helped by air or on foot" the radio said "Four food clothplanes are ing and other"necessities to the hardest hit areas The quake that struck southwest- - No Details of Report Yet Internal Probe Critical Of Meese’s Performance Bv Ronald J Ostrow Los Angeles Tunes Writer WASHINGTON — The Depart- ment of Justice's chief internal investigator has ended a three-montinvestigation of former attorney general Edwin Meese III and has written a highly critical assessment of Meese s ethical conduct during his tenure No details could be learned about the sensitive report which was done by Michael E Shaheen Jr the department's counsel for Shaprofessional responsibility heen opened his investigation after independent counsel James C McKay concluded in his own re' port that Meese probably" had committed four violations of federal conflirt-o- f interest and tax laws The report was completed several davs ago but department officials said that it had not yet been sent to Attorney General Dick Thornburgh officials denied that the delay had anything to do with ledum saying the presidential that it was held up because of leRobert s Moss Jr gal questions Thornburghs executive assistant declined in an interview to detail the questions involving the report but said that they could affect oth er legal cases Ross who forward ed the legal questions to the Je partment s criminal division and various I S attorneys said that there also wire questions about how tin M port should he released Ross said he belli ed that al those questions mmld be I esov ed ks in a matter ot w UK questmr ra'sed by Shu been s report is understood to have been hether its release now might illert lhi prosecution early ' & W j a-- (rhHfr v vv frauding the scandal-plague- d Wedtech Corp He is accused of accepting money from Wedtech to influence Meese to help the New York company get gov eminent defense contracts It w as not clear why any findings by Shaheer would be more likely to affect the criminal case against Wallach than the voluminous report issued by McKay Meese saying that he had been cleared of any wrongdoing resigned m August after McKay s report Although McKay did not seek criminal charges Meese and his lawyers sharply disputed the independent counsel s findings Shaheen s investigation is the final official inquiry into Meese s controversial personal actions as attorney general the executive In September branch's Office of Government Ethics accused Meese of undermining the public s confidence in the integrity of government by allowing his name and office to be used by Wallach and by fas ban dlmg of his taxejand financial dm closure reports Shaheen s report is expected to tie rnoie detailed examining Meese s actions m light of depart ment regi lations on ethical con duct Mailmens powers range ! i om a king tor a reopening of the i r imaial mv est igatmn of M ese to of f madly censuring him It a also learned Wednesday that 'I tr " nbunih s untmipyted or d i r m rescind Meesi scuntrover sail decision to require indepenounsel investigations of dent rntmhii' of Congress would not he issued until consultations with ’he amoming Hush administration Immediately after taking oflVi vui'imt Thornburgh mio'd s now-defun- vv i ern Yunnan province Sunday night was China's worst since a 1976 earthquake that killed 242000 people The Yunnan quake measured 76 on the Richter scale signifying a powerful quake capable of heavy damage and by Wednesday morning had been followed by 184 aftershocks Beijing Radio said seismologists had met the day before the quake and decided to issue a warning of a coming tremor but they did not expect it to hit so soon or so strongly It was not immediately clear if they had issued any warning The Ministry of Civil Affairs told U N relief agencies that more than 100000 people were homeless and the official China News Service said 1986 w ere injured most of them seriously The ministry did not change its count from Tuesday of 938 dead The quake affected 14 counties with a total population of more than 1 million people scattered over 16000 square miles along the border with Burma Trevor Page the U N World Eood Programs Beijing representative quoted the Ministry of Civil Affairs as saying relief w orkers still hav e not been able to reach many villages Most of the casualties counted so far have been m just one county Lan-can- The ministry also said it would welcome donations of food medical supplies arid plastic sheeting for temporary shelters Page said He said the Chinese specified they were not appealing for help but would welcome any appropriate assistance by friendly countries or international organizations ' Mitchell was the oldest and last of the 25 W’atergate defendants to go to prison and he spent 19 months in the federal prison m Alabama Of those 19 months five were spent on medical furlough for two operations — one to replace a section of abdominal artery and the other to have a plastic hip socket inserted He was released from prison in January 1979 Mitchell formerly a leading municipal bond specialist and senior partner in Nixon's old Manhattan law firm was chairman of Nixon s election campaign in 1968 He resigned as attorney general to run Nixon’s campaign in 1972 but quit that post as the Watergate scandal began unfolding After his release from prison he was disbarred and unable to practice law Nixon was named as an unindicted in the Watergate case by a federal grand jury’ investigating the scandal Soon after Nixon resigned the presidency in August 1974 his successor Gerald R Ford pardoned Nixon for any crimes he may have committed in office Mitchell and Nixon remained good friends throughout the scandal and afterward Mitchell never uttered a harsh word about Nixon and never permitted his defense lawyers to do so during the lengthy investigation and his own trial The late Sen Sam Ervin D-- C who presided at the congressional Watergate hearings once said "I really feel sorry for John Mitchell He was very loyal to the president and the president was very loyal to him" Mitchell's release from prison in January 1979 was widely described as the final page in the long Watergate saga Then-Attorne- General Griffin y Bell declared upon Mitchell's release that "Watergate is now a closed issue " Mitchell kept a low profile following his release from prison avoiding most interviews and refusing to discuss the scandal with reporters he had frequently accused of blowing the case out of proportion As he left the military base where he had been imprisoned Mitchell gave a curt goodbye to the press covering the event Henceforth don t call me Ell call vou" he said Report: Design Method Flaws Top Reason for Magellan Fire CAPE AM k C Fla 'AH- — Inadequa’e pro edures arid pom de sign were mainly responsible fur the flash fire that cans' J n mor damage t" the Mage!! i:criusspatccraft an n nv es g a bear d r t portc d M i The f ehecko J human mtdv ' '' d 'a- - " ' i !" 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who has battled health and financial problems for years has listed more than 13 million in medical personal and tax debts in a bankruptcy petition The rock pianist and singer filed the petition Tuesday in U S Bankruptcy Court in Memphis Tenn It lists 22 creditors including $2 million owed to the Internal Revenue Service The performer's life is the subject of the movie "Great Balls of Fire" starring Dennis Quaid The movie w hich is being shot in Memphis deals with a period of the entertainer's life in the late 1950s Cher caused quite a stir as fans crammed a downtown Atlanta department store and spilled out onto the streets in hopes of catching a glimpse of the actress w ho w as in town to promote her new perfume "This is really cool that you guys took off work to come and see r me" she told the crowd Tuesday during a brief question session A promoter urged the fans to be uninhibited in their questions and many were Cher was asked among other things the number and location of her tatoos "I guess it's 5'4” she said "One on my left foot one on my right shoulder one on my arm and the other two only a very few people have seen them” J oe Clark in spite of a Time magazine co er and the admiration of President Reagan wasn't able to get elected to public office The principal of East Side High in Paterson N J and a Republican in a strong Democratic district was trying to become an Essex County freeholder the equivalent of a county board member ratio in Tuesday's voting but he was trounced by a “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it and I'm not about to swallow it” said Clark who blamed his loss on the "Democratic lock and hold on the black vote" Clark campaigned w ith a baseball bat and bullhorn — the trademarks of his discipline style — and handed out copies of his Time magazine cover He is the subject of a movie starring Morgan Freeman get-toug- h 2-- 1 Linda Ellerbee is among those who think exit polls have too much influence in the electoral process and she offers a solution — lie The CNN commentator says the exit polls which allow the networks to declare a presidential winner before the polls have closed on the West Coast have taken all the suspense out of Election Day Ellerbee s advice on how to liven things up: "You vote you walk out you are approached by somebody who asks if you'll tell them how you voted You say yes smile and then you lie your head off — from one end of the ballot to the other from sea to shining sea Imagine what will happen if television calls the wrong winner Maybe we can t teach TV manners but we can my fellow Americans teach them a little humility” Sally Field says she cheated death in the runway mishap involving Merv Griffin's private jet last week On takeoff from Aspen Colo the jet went out of control and plowed into another private jet parked by the runway Field her Sam escaped unhusband Alan Greisman and their 11 month-old harmed but dampened by jet fuel "All I was thinking was Hold on to Sam!’ I didn't care if I 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