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iUanrhpfitpr Priseweek Puzzle The person who correctly solves The Herald’s Prizeweek Puzzle in today’s paper will be awarded $50. The amount of the award will increase each week the puzzle is not solved. The puzzle is on Page 4. I Vol. XCIX, No. 283 — Manchester, Conn., Saturday. August 30, 19io~ • Since 1881 • 2d« Settlement predicted in shipyard strike GDANSK, Poland (UPI) - The President Leonid Brezhnev himself. with the national armies” of the War­ leader of the strikes engulfing most It also coincided with the arrival in saw Pact nations. of Poland, from the Baltic Coast to East Germany of Polish troops to Word of the coalfield strikes first the coalmining heartland, said take part in Warsaw Pact maneuvers came from a delegate from Lubin, a Friday a key dispute over free trade near the Polish border — and the southern Polish town near Wroclaw, unions was nearly settled and "we Baltic coast. who went to the Baltic coast port of see the finish.” Whether just one side or both felt Gdansk to confer with the leaders of The conference hall at the Lenin the pressure was not immediately a 16-day-old shipyard strike. shipyards in Gdansk, the Baltic port clear. Details of the reported settle­ It was the Gdansk walkout that where the strikes began 16 days ago, ment were not announced. touched off the labor unrest that has erupted into an uproar of cheers and Walesa cautioned the government mushroomed into a general strike applause as strike leader Lech may yet raise last-minute objections, affecting most of Poland and posing Walesa told delegates from 500 fac­ or renege on the terms later. But as the most serious challenge the tories they were close to winning he addressed the factory delegates, Gierek regime has faced. their main demand — the first in­ he was bouyant and, for the moment, The Gdansk strike committee said dependent trade unions in the East exuding confidence. earliv it had reached a tentative les Bloc. "Point No. 1 (the demand for free agreement on the union issue with all "Tell the good news,” Walesa trade unions) has been settled 90 members of the government declared. "We see the finish." percent.” Walesa said. "It does not negotiating team except its chief, '3 .J The break in what had been a mean that the settlement may not be first deputy premier Mieczyslaw stalemate over the union issue came overthrown, but we are going Jagielski. after the strikes now involving more forward. We are making progress.... Jagielski, who has missed the last than 350,000 workers spread to the coal "We've begun to understand one two rounds of talks, stayed away mines of Silesia. That was viewed as another. This is the finish. We see the from the shipyard Friday and potentially the most crippling blow finish." he said. progress remained uncertain until the the government and the economy According to Western analysts, the Walesa's announcement. since the labor unrest began to unfold settlement came none too soon. with a shipyard strike in Gdansk. “The coal mines are the heart of The walkout by some 20,000 coal Poland's industrial strength,” one miners was doubly embarrassing to analyst said. “If the coal miners are No paper the regime because Communist Par­ out in force, it may mean the govern­ ty chief Edward Gierek, himself a ment no longer has the power to former coal miner, came up through resist the strikes. And then the the party ranks in Silesia, which was danger will be greater than ever, but Monday considered his political stronghold. from tbe East, the Soviet Union." In addition, Poland depends heavily In Moscow, Soviet President In observance of tbe Labor on coal for its energy ne^s. Leonid Brezhnev said that while the Holiday, The Herald will not be The actions also came amid of­ Kremlin had no plans to "encroach" published on Monday. ficial warnings that the situation was on foreign territory or "intervene in The Herald will resume publica­ becoming "critical." — warnings somebody else's internal affairs," it tion Tuesday. that pointedly reminded the strikers wouid not hesitate to defend its The management and staff of of Poland's ties with the Soviet Union “legitimate rights and interests.” the Manchester Evening Herald and its position in the East bloc. In what was apparently a reference wishes everyone a safe and plea­ One of those warnings, although to the Polish crisis, he added "we sant holiday. vaguely phrased, came from Soviet have strong brotherhood in arms Polish parade Polish honor guard goosesteps during cer- the capitol but the effects of the 16-day strike Complex lawyer notified monial changing of the guard Friday in front in Gdansk will inevitable be felt. (UPI of Poland's memorial to an unknown soldier photo), of PWD position on pond in Warsaw. There are no reported strikes in the subdivision. There are two major He said water could be directed to By DAVE LAVALLEE alternatives. property off the subdivision site to Soviets to stay neutral Herald Kepurtrr One would be to divert tbe water abutting property. Another choice GLASTONBl RY - The attorney from the watershed to a detention would be to send tbe water upstream representing the developer of Clear- pond along Mott Hill Road. The other of Mott Hill Brobk to another pond view Estates, Section 1, Phase II, has would be to divert the water to a outside of the subdivision. in Polish strike situation been made aware of the Publie proposed pond in the norther part of "These two alternatives would be MOSCOW (UPI) — In an apparent Communist bloc Brezhnev, 73 and looking healthier Workd Department's stand on tbe the subdivision. The pond was much more suitable to handling the reference to Poland, President "But. " he added, "we shall always than at any other time during the construction of a detention pond in scheduled to be built anyway, accor­ runoff,” Cosentino said. Leonid Brezhnev said Friday the manage to defend our rights and past year, delivered the 45-minute the upper section of the proposed ding to Branse, but the proposal now No decisions can be made by the Soviet Union did not intend to in­ legitimate interests " speech in Kazakhstan to mark the development, according to Town shows a larger pond to accommodate department until the developer sub­ terfere in the internal affairs of "We have strong brotherhood in 60th anniversary of the central Asian Engineer Joseph Cosentino. t|}e additional watershed. mits detailed plans on the size of the another country but would always arms with the national armies of the republic’s incorporation into the Cosentino's statement followed At its meeting the Conservation detention pond, according to Cosen­ “defend our rights and legitimate in­ countries of the socialist com­ Soviet Union comments made by Mark Branse, Commission agreed the upper pond tino. terests. ” munity." he said The speech was televised the attorney representing developer was the best alternative and Branse “It would be difficult to maintain Brezhnev, in a speech televised Diplomatic observers said the throughout the Soviet Union but was Rene Veilleux, Thursday night at the agreed. However, members of the the propo|ed pond,” he said. across the Soviet Union, also lashed fleeting reference to Moscow's not shown live in Poland Conservation Commission meeting. commission and Branse indicated military links with other countrrcs There was nothing vague in Cosentino-iaid he met with Town out at President Carter's new Branse had said at the meeting he they were being held up by the lack of nuclear strategy, charging the was unusual and could be interpreted Brezhnev's attack on the United \ Manager Richard Borden, En­ had not received any clear direction a report from the Public Works United States was trying to prepare to mean that any strike-breaking States and its new nuclear strategy vironmental Planner John Pagini and on whether the Public Works Depart­ Department. the world for the "extremely would be done by Polish soldiers aimed at llmting the devastation in ment favors the construction of the However. Cosentino said the Branse to express the department’s the event of a nuclear war The feelings on the plan. dangerous" prospect of fighting a But it also could be significant in upper detention basin. department had reservations on the limited nuclear war. view of the Soviet invasions of Soviets, as well as American critics, The Conservation Commission use of the upper pond as currently “It would not have been ready to But it was Brezhnev's apparent Hungary in 1966 and Czechoslovakia charge that such strategy increases voted to continue a public hearing on proposed. make a recommendation Thursday references to the Polish crisis that in 1 ^ . which were carried out under the possibility of a nulcear war the 22-lot application and to send a “We have concerns about the night," he said. intrigued Western diplomats, leaving the banner of the Warsaw Pact, the "Its mam purpose is to make the letter to public works requesting an diversion of the watershed, the loca­ them to guess at what he meant. military alliance of the East bloc. prospect of nuclear war more accep­ opinion on the feasibility of tbe upper tion and the magnitude of the pond,” Responding to the charge from "We do not encroach on Brezhnev also touched o-n table to public opinion, " Brezhnev pond. It also voted to send a letter to Cosentino said. Branse that Cosentino had not somebody's land and we do not in­ Afghanistan, where the Kremlin in­ said "Statements about alleged the Town Plan and Zoning Commis­ Diversion of watersheds to another supplied the necessary report, he terfere in somebody's internal af­ sists that Its intervention is meant to limited and partial use of nuclear sion stating that it favored the upper pond should always be avoided, ac­ said, “He does have a feeling from fairs,” Brezbnev said in wbat first help the Kabul government fend off weapons hive nothing in common pond alternative and it could begin cording to Cosentino.

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