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Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, 1)1. 61920 I Vol. News68, No. 58 /Two Sections, 28 Pages oscow mourns,Kremlin leader Brezhnev. • • MOSCOW (AP)-Soviet workers draped Moscow with red and black flags of mourning for Leonid I. Brezhnev on Thursday and state radio and television broadcast funeral dirges and words of praise for the late Kremlin leader. · Authorities appeared intent on projecting an image of. orderly transition following the death bf Brezhnev, who lead the nation for 18 years. "It's hard for us, but we'll survive," said one police captain a few moments after the death an­ nouncement Thursday morning. "Everything will re� main in order.'' Television interrupted one of its concerts to show hundreds of workers at factories in Moscow, Kiev and Leni.ngrad ' somberly holding pictures of Brezhnev and listening to plant officials eulogize the dead president and Communist Party chief. ' "In this bitter hour the people of the Soviet UniOn gather even closer around the Communist Party," said an official at Kiev's Arsenal metal-working plant. Nearly continuous state radio and television broadcasts of fu neral music created a mood mat­ ching Moscow's grey skies. In Washington, President Reagan assured the Soviet Union Thursday night that he hopes for a bet­ ter superpower relationship "in a dangerous time" following Brezhnev's death. In a nationally broadcast news conference, Reagan declared "our goal is and will remain a search for peace." The president said he intends to keep pushing (or a treaty to reduce strategic nuclear weapons. But "We should not delude ourselves," he said. "Peace is a product of strength, not weakness." Reagan indicated that Vice President George Bush probably would head the U.S. delegation to Brezhnev's funeral. As for why he wouldn't go President Leonid Brezhnev and Chairman of Jaruzelski shake hands Aug. at tr�ir 1neeting in Soviet 16 himself, Reagan said "it was a plain case of looking Council of Ministers of Poland Wojciech the Crimea. (Photo courtesy of the Times Courier) at the schedule. It was felt it would be better for George to head that delegation." ... as faculty members,here Spending rule· nalyze effect of Soviet crisis .,Maureen Foertsch As far as possibilities for Brezhnev's replacement, clarified by AB Ed Mazzocco Thorsen said the press has been saying that An- by Doug'"'s Backstrom Two Eastern faculty members said the death of dropov and Brezhnev aide Konstantin Chernenko are The Apportionment Board Thursday passed President Leonid I. Brezhnev should not have possibilities. Soviet an amendment stating "the Apportionmen: inmmediate effect on relations between the United 1 "The problem with replacing Brezhnev is that the Board, as a general policy, does not allow deficit States and Soviet Union. Soviet Union has no official legal way set down for spending" for student fee-funded groups. History instructor Stephan Horak said, "I don't choosing a new leader," Thorsen said. AB Assistant Chairman Kathy Kilmer propos any maj or changes in U.S. and Soviet relations A replacement will emerge from a power struggle ed· the amendment because "it was not forsee specifo in Soviet policy in the near future." within the group, he added. or enough in the AB bylaws." Larry Thorsen, political science department chair- Horak said, "Brezhnev left four or five individuals Kilmer said the way the AB.bylaws previously man, agreed. , who were important in the Soviet hierarchy but they were worded gave the impression that a fec­ Brezhnev's death will not "call for immediate are all very old. They were Brezhnev's closest funded group could deficit spend, the on!y diange because the Soviet Union is led collectively. friends." restriction being that the amount o f deficit would Brezhnev was first among equals but he did not make However, in four or five years they will be out of have to be made up in the fo llowing fiscal year's decisions on his own," Thorsen said. power because of their age or because they will die, all budget. Breshnev ad been ill and his duties were only part- Horak said. They will be replaced by a younger age The previous wording of the bylaws read ·•1n lime last year. Policy decisions have been made by group in their fifties who are untested and unknown, <' h the event a funded activity ends a period wilh politburo, the ruling group of the Soviet Union, he added. the allocation for the followin� the · negative balance, headded. Brezhnev's contemporaries learned directly from period shall be charged a sufficient amount to br , "The person who wjll replace Brezhnev will not be Josef Stalin, but the newer leaders came after Stalin's ing the ending balance to zero." known for a while;" Thorsen continued. However, rule which may have•an affect on Soviet policy, "Any group could have come to the AB and added that the new president will be one of the in- Horaker said. have wanted to take the exact meaning out he would dividuals who has had a part of the Soviet decision- Thorsen said, "When Nikita Krushchev took over, of our previous bylaws which would have allow­ making process. it took him four years to gain the maj ority of the ed them deficit spend," Kilmer said. Thorsen said there will be some changes, but he party's loyalty." Kilmer submitted a letter to AB members not think important changes will be caused by When Brezhnev followed Khrushchev in office, it recently which said that last year Vice President take over of a new Soviet president. took almost as long for him to gain the party loyalty, for Student Affairs Glenn Williams issued a let­ Horak said, "For two or three years, or until new he added. ter to all student fee-funded groups stating that collective leadership takes over, I expect Soviet policy Horak said, "Brezhnev was in power for 20 years. from that point on, no fee-funded group would to remain as it is now and many of my colleagues In lhose years he brought great amounts of stability be allowed to deficit spend. who I spoke with today agreed," Horak said. to the Soviet government. The DallyEastern Friday, November 2, 982 2 t t Ne Associated Press Solidarity leader to be released News Round-Up WARSAW, Poland (AP)-Interned Solidarity ference Thursday that Walesa's release would be leader Lech Walesa has offered to help "find a delayed until sometime "in the next few days solution" to Poland's problems and will be freed because of technical reasons such as different renew Chicago body hunt without conditions in a few days, the martial law formalities, his luggage and so forth." regime said Thursday. "No conditions were put to Walesa concerning PoliceCHICAGO- Investigators will search a Northwetst Side The announcement came a day after the his release," he added. : on st preserve for the bodies of as many as 15 victims of sex­ failure of a general strike called by underground The 39-year-old Solidarity leader was interned ·.ial :nutilation murders, police said Thursday. leaders of the outlawed independent labor union when martial law was declared Dec. 13, and for will return to the LaBagh Woods Forest Lietectives and several hours after the announcement of the some time has been held in a government villa in P1 c serve on Friday to dig for bodies, according to police Sgt. death of Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev. extreme southeast Poland near the Soviet John Mucia-. A three-hour search in the forest preserve Sun­ "If it is true, I will be happy," Walesa's wife Border. Ja� up no evidence, Mucia said. <urned Danuta told The Associated Press by telephone His release, coupled with Monday's announce­ Three men, two of them already indicted for murder, are from the couple's home in the northern port city ment that Polish-born Pope John Paul II can 'llspected of the killings, according to police Superintendant of Gdansk. "I'm full of joy and fear, because I visit here next June suggested Polish leader Gen. Richard Brzeczek. cannot imagine the crowds· of people who will Wojciech Jaruzelski feels in full control after II Thompson recount likely-aide want to see him." months of military rule law aimed at crushing Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told dissent. CHICAGO-:-Republican Gov. James l'hompson won't foreign reporters at a hurriedly called news con- "roll over and play dead" for Democratic challenger Adlai a top Thompson aide said Thursday as the Ste\·enson, 1 1ompson campaign geared up to.blunt Stevenson's bid for a .. 1 Explos1·on le •1elsIr ' Is •a e11· outpost Sia1ewide recoun t in the Illinois governor's race . Philip R. O'Connor, Thompson's political director, said TYRE, Lebanon (AP)-A fiery explosion TheI exact cause of the explosion remained believed caused by a suicidal car-bomber unclear.