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Monday Guardian Angels Electronic mail Giants defeated— Specials marching, page 3 on way, page 2 by 'Frisco: Sports The Daily Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL.104 NO. 161 SHREWSBURY, N.J, MONDAY, JANUARY 4,19.82 25 CENTS West officials wooed by Polish leaders By The Associated Press billion debt to the West. The sources said they PAP reported that nine steelworkers from Soli- assumed the Soviet bloc had provided the money darity, the independent trade union federation Poland's military ruler was meeting with because Western banks had refused. that was the chief target of the military West European envoys M-Warsaw today in an crackdown, were sentenced to heavy fines and apparent effort to heirfhli participation in Poland's cash reserves are exhausted be- prison terms Sunday for "masterminding a American economic sanctions The military re- cause its economy has been crippled by years of strike at the Katowice steel mill." gime also was reported to have lined up 1350 Communist mismanagement and planning as million to avoid defaulting on its debt to Western well as recent labor unrest. Polish officials have PAP said their sentences ranged from SVi to governments and banks. been privately telling Western diplomats and 612 years plus deprivation of civil rights after- journalists that cuts in Western aid will force ward for up to five years. The strike lasted 10 Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's premier, the country to rely more heavily on the Soviets. days after martial law was declared Dec. 13, Communist Party chief and head of the military The Kremlin has already supplied thousands of PAP said council; invited the ambassadors from the 10 tons of food, medicine and fuel to support the Common Market countries to talk about the military regime. .< Other reports from Poland said 20 closed Communist nation's problems, the West Ger- A Warsaw radio commentary said Sunday factories and industrial plants were to reopen man Foreign Office said. He was expected to today following attempts to purge Solidarity ask that their governments not join in U.S. workers who led strikes in defiance of martial Hnlittr Him b» Jwiwt J. Cmnollv law. TRAFFIC FATALITY — Eatontown firemen and first aid squad members, above and economic sanctions. below, try to reach William R. Johnson, whose car was involved in a collision at the Two experts disagree Among the plants which the government Eatontown Circle intersection of Routes 35 and 36 last night. Johnson later died at Foreign ministers of the Common Market hoped to get working again were the big Lenin Monmouth Medical Center. ' countries were meeting in Brussels today to on sanctions, page 4 shipyards in Gdansk, where Solidarity was born discuss Poland. Their governments have con- in the summer of 1960, and the Pafawag railroad demned Poland's Communist regime for declar- car factory in Wroclaw, a center of labor unrest. ing martial law three weeks ago, curbing civil It was the third attempt to reopen the shipyards. liberties and jailing thousands of unionists and that Reagan's economic sanctions were "typi- dissidents. But none have showed any inclina- cal of a sheriff from a Western," and criticized The reports also said martial law authorities tion to follow President Reagan's lead in suspen- him for asserting that the Soviet Union was banned the sale of paper to check the circulation ding aid and trade agreements with Poland and responsible for Poland's martial law. of anti-government leaflets by Solidarity ac- the Soviet Union. In Moscow, a Soviet television commentator tivists still at large. llncensored reports from Poland reaching predicted Western Europe would reject Re- Martial law authorities have cut normal the West said Western sources in Warsaw re- agan's call for joint sanctions. The Communist communications in Poland and sharply restrict- ported Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski Party newspaper Pravda accused the United ed Western news agencies. All dispatches are assured West German officials last week his States of violating the 1975 Helsinki accords by censored and independent reports must be as- government has the $350 million needed to pay helping Solidarity plan a coup in Poland. sembled (ruiii diplomats, exiles, travelers and the rest of last year's interest on. Poland's $27 Meanwhile, the official Polish news agency other source Italian police seeking link between jail break, kidnap VERONA, Italy (AP) - Police are looking Police said the escape may have been an "friends" of the general are offering a reward for links between the kidnapping of U.S. Brig. attempt by the Red Brigades to divert police of 2 billion lira — $1.6 million at the current Gen. James Doiier and an attack on a women's forces from the Dozier kidnap investigation. exchange rate — for information leading to prison that freed four suspected terrorists. ' They said one of those who escaped, Dozier's release. The friends have not been Police said one of the escapees yesterday is Loredana Biancamano, is a suspected member identified. believed to be a member of the Red Brigades, of the Red Brigades and two of the others, The Italian news agency reported that Judith the urban terrorist organization that kidnapped . Susanna Ronconi and Marina Premoli, are Dozier, the general's wife, asked to be hypno- Three die in accidents Dozier from his Verona apartment Dec. 13. Two former members. Miss Ronconi and the fourth tized to help her recall repressed memories of of the others are said to be former members. escapee, Federica Neroni, are now members of the kidnapping. The report said a hypnotist from The four escaped from the Rovigo women's the Front Line, another left-wing terrorist the NATO base in nearby Vicenia visited her prison, 55 miles southeast of Verona, after three group. yesterday, but NATO officials said they could or four accomplices on the outside blew a large "The ideological aims (of the Red Brigades neither confirm nor deny the report. in Monmouth County hole in the prison wall, threw submachine guns and the Front Line) are the same," said a to the four women Inside and pinned down the Verona police official who asked not to be identi- Mrs. Dozier gave the police descriptions of Two men and a young girl were killed yester- Police said that, according to a witness, prison sentries by automatic weapons fire, au- fied. "But they haven't ever worked together. the men who entered their apartment disguised day in separate accidents in Eatontown and Johnson was waiting at a red light on Route 35 thorities said? We have to wait for further details.'' as plumbers, seized the general and left her Middletown. when the light for traffic on Route 36 turned The wall was shattered by a bomb planted in A series of Red Brigades communiques re- bound, gagged and chained to a chair in her In Eatontown, William R. Johnson, 41, of 74- yellow. a car parked outside. The blast, which hurled leased since the kidnapping have said Dozier, kitchen. ANSA said she hoped she could give a A Southbrook Dr., Eatontown, suffered fatal Johnson subsequently began edging out into bricks 100 yards and shattered windows In the highest ranking American at the Verona more detailed account under hypnosis. injuries in a two-car collision at the Eatontown the intersection In anticipation of the light's nearby apartment buildings, killed 64-year-old NATO base, is being tried by a "proletarian" Scott Dozier, the general's son, left Verona traffic circle Intersection of Routes 35 and 36, turning green, police quoted the witness as carpenter Angelo Furlan as he walked his dog, court. The terrorists have yet to announce terms yesterday to return to the United States where police reported. saying, when his car was hit in the side by and Injured six other people, three of them for his release. he is in the Army. Cheryl, the general's daugh- - Police sa|d the car driven by Johnson, head- Maurer's auto. seriously. Italian authorities confirmed yesterday that ter, is staying with her mother. ing north on Route 35, collided with a car driven The witness, who wai In a car several cars by Scott W. Maurer, 25, of Ukewood, heading behind Johnson's said Johnson's light was red east on Route 36, at 5:42 p.m. when the accident occurred and that Maurer's Johnson died at 9:30 p.m. at Monmouth Medi- light was either yellow or red, police said. cal Center, Long Branch, a hospital spokesman Police had not Issued any traflic summons NOW pickets Mormon church said. Maurer was in stable condition last night, last night. the spokesman added. The Jaws of Life were used to remov* John- By ROBERT WRIGHT • Patrolman Charles Davis, the investigating son from his car, police said. officer, said Johnson suffered multiple injuries, Police IMM there were no passengers In EATONTOWN - About 50 people picketed a including internal bleeding and possibly a col- either car. local Mormon church yesterday morning to pro- lapsed lung and a punctured lung. Maurer suf- In Middletown, police are still Investigating test a recent ruling against the Equal Rights fered cuts«nd head injuries, Davis said. an accident which claimed the lives of a five- Amendment by a judge who was formerly a high The patrolman said it was "drizzling" and year-old girl and a 71-year-old man at the In- official in the Mormon Church. the roads were "glossy and slick" at the time of tersection of- Route 36 and Harmony Road short- "A violation of the separation of church and the crash. ly after noon yesterday. state really has taken place," said Valerie Caf- According to police, the accident Involved fee, co-coordinator of the Central Monmouth two can, one driven by Charles J.