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Moon base - page 3 VOL XVIII, NO. 71 the indcpcnJent ~tuJent new~paper ~lT\·ing notrl dame and ~ailll nun··~ FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1984 Reagan lifts 1981 ~Polish sanctions Associated Press The Polish govcrnment. which held 6,000 political prisoners after WASHINGTON- Rcsponding to imposing martial law. says the num an appeal from Nobel Prize-winncr ber detained now totals about 200. Lcch Walcsa. Presidcnt Reagan has Romberg could not say how many lifted more of the sanctions he were released or still are in custody. imposed against Poland in 19H I. Reagan ordered sanctions against even though the military govern Poland just days after martial law ment has not met all his conditions was imposed Dec. I:\. 19H I. and a for doing so, officials said Thursday. ban was imposed on Solidarity. Reagan will allow thc Polish which had heen leading a move government airline LOT to resume, toward greater democracy. landing charter flights in the l'nited At the time Reagan said tht· States. and Polish fishermen to tlsh in Soviets had to shouldt·r a major U.S. waters again. Some otht·r l ·.s. share of the blame for devdopments sanctions imposed after Polish au· in Poland. saying events there were thorities declared martial law in "precipitated by public and secret 19H I remain in effect. pressure from the Soviet l 'nion." State Department spokesman Alan A gradual lifting of the sanctions Rombcrg said an appeal last month began late last year even though not by Waksa,leader of Poland's banned all qf Reagan's conditions had been Solidarity trade union, weighed met. Among the conditions were an heavily in the decision. and other end to martial law. rdeasing factors were the reiease of the "vast detainees and reopening "a genuine majority" of Polish political dialoguc with Solidarity. led by Lech prisoners and the successful Polish Walcsa." visit of Pope John Paul II last year. Martial law technically has been Romberg said Poland sought li.S, lifted and most detainees released. AP Photo landing rights for H8 charter flights a But U.S. officials say they have Madame publisher year, "and that is the number that ahandoncd hope that the govern Sen. Ernest Hollings ( D-S.C.) greets Nackey editorial criticizing him for "snide remarks." they have been granted." He said he ment of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzdski Loeb, publisher of the Union Leader, on Wednes "No," replied the Democratic presidential hopeful did not know the purposc of the will rcopen talks with Waksa or lift day at a baseball dinner in New Hampshire. Mrs. as be shook her band. flights. the ban on Solidarity. Loeb asked Hollins if be was upset with her for an Romberg said the prccise fishing On Nov. 2. Reagan lifted the sanc quota for Polish fishermen in I984 tion against rescheduling talks for would be decided later. Poland's official debts and allowed "Very scrious human rights the Poles to enter fishing quota Shultz optimistic about Soviet talks prohlems" still exist in Poland. hc negotiations for 19H5. said, and Reagan's easing of sanc Romherg said among the human Associated Press Shultz rejected Gromyko's bitter how to resume the Geneva talks, tions was part of a stcp-by-stcp ap rights prohlems remaining in Poland condemnation of U.S. policies in a Shultz said, "It was not in any sense a proach aimed at improving is the forthcoming trial of I I OSLO, Norway - Secretary of speech Wednesday to the 35-nation negotiation or anything approach conditions for thc Polish people. Solidarity union and other activists. State George Shultz, acknowledging disarmament conference in Stock ing a real discussion of the subject he made no headway in reopening holm as "incorrect and unaccep matter as such, but there is no agree nuclear arms talks with the Soviets, table." The Soviet foreign minister ment at this point on how to con Chemistry professor vowed yesterday the United States denounced the United States as the duct those talks." would maintain its "willpower and main threat to peace in the world. He said he and Gromyko self-confidence" while seeking new Shultz assailed the Soviets as "discussed many different aspects of opportunities for negotiation. promoting unrest in Central gets Nieuwland Chair arms control, and insofar as the two Shultz said he had "nothing America by sipping arms to Special to The Observer understanding of the properties of a positive to report" after his five-hour revolutionary forces there: talks covering nuclear issues are variety of small and large molecules, meeting in Stockholm on W ednes "Nicaragua has become a place from concerned, I have nothing positive Dr. J. Kerry Thomas, a professor of Castellino said. which there is an effort being made day with Soviet Foreign Minister to report to you." chemistry at Notre Dame who A native ofWalcs, Thomas su.idied Andrei Gromyko on breaking the to export subversion. Through the NATO sources in Stockholm, who developed important tcchniqu~:s for chemistry and radiation chemistry deadlock in the negotiations. flow of armaments that originate in spoke on the condition they not be the study of physical chemistry, has at the llnivcrsity of Manchester, But he also indicated the Soviets the Soviet Union or in allies of the identified, said one possible policy been appointed to the Nieuwland England, where he reccived B.Sc., to Soviet Union and flowing through may be preparing reopen talks shift for Gromyko involved combin Chair in Science. Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees. From 1957- Cuba .. .the influence of that system limiting conventional forces in ing and renaming the two presently Dr. Francis ). Castcllino, dcan of 58 he was a postdoctoral fellow at has arisen." Europe. The talks, suspended a thc College of Sciencc, said, "In the National Rescarch Council in Ot The Soviets suspended arms talks month ago, "are in a somewhat dif suspended nuclear weapons talks. sdecting Dr. Thomas as the tawa, Canada, and latc::r conducted in Geneva in late November to But the Soviets have not made up ferent category for the Soviets." recipient of the first Nicuwland research on radiation induced The talks, called Mutual and protest NATO's deployment of new their minds on the continuation of Chair in Science, we arc rccognizing surface graft-polymcrization in Har Balanced Force Reductions, focus U.S-built Pershing 2 missiles in West the talks, the sources said. the very productive career of an out well, England. on the troops stationed in Europe by Germany and cruise missiles in The sources said the indications standing scicntist." From 1960-70 Thoma~ was a re NATO and the Warsaw Pact. In Britain. Last month, parallel talks to came in meetings Gromyko held Thomas has contributcd "in an searcher at the Argonne National Stockholm, Foreign Minister Len cut back long-range weapons also Wednesday with Shultz and West imaginative and creative fashion" to Laboratory where hc developed the nart Bodstrom said they might begin stalled. German Foreign Minister Hans developing and employing vcry short-pulsed nanosecond laser by March. Asked about their discussions on Dietrich Genscher. rapid laser photochemical and photolysis and pulse radiolysis tech photophysical measurements to the niques now widely used in physical chemistry research. He used his own techniques to study the fundamental Endowment chief shuns quotas chemical processes induct:d by radiation. Associated Press Thomas. "What we want is for them to make Thomas joined the Notre Dame The EEOC, set up by Congress in an effort." faculty in I 970, spccializing in WASHINGTON- William). Ben I964 to erase job discrimination, The National Endowment for the physical and radiation cht:mistry. Hc nett. head of the National Endow seeks voluntary compliance or, if Humanities is an independent received the rt:search award of thc ment for the Humanities, is refusing necessary, court action to enforce federal agency with a S I40 million Radiation Research Society in 1974. in the name of"human equality and civil rights statutes. But it has no budget. It awards tax-paid grants and and in I 975 was a Gast Professor at equal liberty" to set numerical goals power to sue or impose sanctions on fellowships to underwrite scholarly the Hahn Meitner Institute in Bcrlin. required by the Equal Employment any federal agency that refuses to and educational projects. He is a member of several profcs Opportunity Commission for hiring comply with its regulations. Bennett said he was inspired by sional socicties and has written ovcr women and minorities. Thomas was unavailable for com Attorney General William French 200 research papers and review ar "Under its current leadership, this ment on the letter. Smith, who wrote the EEOC last July ticles. agency will neither favor nor slight Douglas Bielan, who supervises that the Justice Department would The Nieuwland Chair in Science is anyone because of race, color, na EEOC efforts by II 0 U.S. agencies as rely on recruiting - but not quotas a ncw, fully endowed chair crcatcd tional origin. religion or gender," head of public sector programs, said -to increase the number of women by the Univcrsity to memorialize Bennett. an appointee of President his agency requires no quotas. and minorities on its payroll. Father Julius Nieuwland a Notre Reagan, said in a letter sent Monday "We're talking flexible goals to be Dr.]. Kerry Thomas Dame chemist who first devdoped a to EEOC chairman Clarence set, targets to try and reach," he said. see EEOC, page.4 synthetic rubber in 193 I. The Observer Friday, January 20, 1984 - page 2 In Brie£ Notre Dame women struggle within the status quo who fail to report interest.