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EXPRESS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1980 Chance of showers, thundershowers. High lower 80s, _low 65:70. . Details on Page 39./ heed 48 PAGES incuding 8 Tab Pages 25¢ “mm\litzegosydan - School Bus Schedules - Are Listed The Courier-Express today pub-\ lishes exclusively the complete listing of yellow school bus routes in Biffalo, along with- boarding locations, pick-up times and bus numbers as a. public service to students and their 'parents as school opens Wednesday. The list- ing aré on Pages 16-19. Goo in the Area Separate traffic accidents take the lives of a Derby motorcyclist and a North Tonawanda man riding as pas- senger in an automobile. Page 8. Twenty-six persons will be honored at the eighth annual Black Achievers A‘yaxd dinner here. Page 8. . Robert J. Clark, 28, is held for grand jury action in the knife murder of Barbara J. McGee, 32, on West Chippewa Street. Page 21. | % Esca v pe Attempt , Futile for Two Held in Murders Helen Nikiel, former pitcher and manager of the now-defunct Buffalo- Bisons professional softball team, played softball for 16 years and took the game seriously. Now at age 31 she is training for a career in a medical assistant secretarial program. Page * 2M. In the World f Iran has a new prime minister and cabinet, but President Bani-Sadr is reportedly unhappy with many of the choices. Page 2. NATO exercises begin this week in what promises to be the biggest war games in the 31 years of the organiza- tion's existence. Page 2. Nation , of the nation's labor leaders will spend an election year Labor Day a er threats or scares. Page 3. In Sports Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe F or Unemployéd C Labor Day Just Another Holiday By MARK MISERCOLA Courlanxprese Staff Reporter Bill Zelazny is celebrating Labor Day the same way he's celebrated every holiday since December-unem- ployed. He's still grateful ona num- ber of counts. Grateful he doesn't have-his. ryznflgagn nat ful he can still send his oldest son to Bishop Timon High School next fall, and grateful because he's not as bad off as some of the guys he worked with at Bethlehem Steel Corp's Lack- awanna plant. \It's tough right now, and a lot of them are running out of money,\ Ze lazny says. \I don't see how a man with a wife and four kids can live on $125 a week. A lot of them are trying for welfare but if you have anything in the bank that just throws every- thing out. © We're a little bit better off than some. We don't have big mortgage payments. But now we're going to have to hit the bank account to pay the taxes and bills and other things. I don't know how long we can keep go- ing on like this.\ Furioughed Three Times Zelazny started working for Beth- lehem as a laborer in 1963 and since ments: to.. payments;-grate- swept away from his machinist job at $11 an hour and into the unemploy- ment line. Instead of repairing broken machines, he works around the house, participates in union activities and belongs to a couple of soctal clubs. 'Instead of raises, his weekly in- come plunges every time a different unemployment benefit lapses. \\Right now my SUB (Supplemental Unemployment Benefits -- additional jobless pay negotiated by the steel- worker)check is giving us $125 a week but that's supposed to end and I don't know if I'll get anymore because I have less than 20 years experience,\ Zelazny says. \I ran out of state unemploymient benefits and TRA - (Trade Readjustment Act funds) at the same time in July. I'm supposed to go down Tuesday and sign up for an extension of state unemployment benefits.\ Wite Spends Carefully His wife, Mary, carefully balances the trimmed down weekly budget, noting there is little left over for ex- tras. \I've talked it over with my wife,\ he adds. \And if worse comes to worse I'll have to start looking out of town.\ Courlendxpress MAYVILLE ~~¥wo men held on murder charge n separate cases were foiled in an attempt to escape from Chautauqua County Jail by a new security system, Sheriff John R. Bentley reported on Sunday. Joseph L. Dobos, 32, of 101 Travis Blvd., Town of Fonawanda, and Kenneth Allen Wilbér, 19, of Bard Road, Town of Arkwright, will be charged with seeqnd-degree attempt- ed escape aftertheir short-lived break for freedom here Saturday, Bentley said. According to Bentleye, about 6:30 Saturday night Dobos and Wilber, who have been held in the same cell- block, \faked Guard Joseph Vacanti into believing their area was being flooded by a broken water pipe.\ As Vacant! brought equipment to clean up the fake flood, the sheriff reported, he was seized by Dobos, a burly ex-Marine who is partially crip- pled by phlebitis in both legs. Dobos, according to one source, pressed a pencil into Vacanti's back, pretending he had a knife, Forced into Elevator Jail guards are not armed and there was no chance of the men confiscating A Weapar --- => After grabbing Vacanti, the two ac- cused killers forced him into an eleva- tor, which they rode down to the jail basement. There they encountered a security door which cannot be opened from the elevator side, Bentley said. The door, Bentley said, is part of a security system installed when the jail underwent extensive renovation in 1975. The system includes several \one-way doors\ which can be opened by guards only from one side. The system also has television mon!- tors and other devices to keep the po-, pulation of the three-story brick jail under surveillance, the sheriff ex- plained. Encountering the one-way door, the sheriff said, the two men told officers waiting on the other side that they wanted to go back to their cells. The door was unlocked. Dobos and Wilber were taken back as requested. Flood Was Faked Vacanti was released unharmed and returned to duty on his regular shift Sunday, There also was no indication, sources said, that the pair expected any outside help had they managed to get out of jail. Both men are represented by Pub- lic Defender Charles Edward Fagan. Two weeks ago, Fagan had Dobos taken briefly to Jamestown General Hospital for examination and treat- ment of his legs. Dobos, a Vietnam War veteran, suffers from inflamma- tion of the blood vessels of both legs which, Fagan said in his application for treatment filed with County Court a m-orea 4 a here, 'causes-him-great-pain-and town Bureow hearings, Dobos has moved slowly and seemed to be in pain. . Dobos is one of three men being held here In the so-called \love trian- gle\ contract murder of Ronald L. Fisher, 32, of South Dayton. Killed by Shoigun . Dobos, along with Michael W. Laf- ferty, 30, of 88 Kenton Road, Town of Tonawanda, and Otto M. Krasniew- tcz, 30, of 14 Gale Ave., Buffalo, are under indictment for second-degree murder and conspiracy in Fisher's death. According to State Police, Lafferty agreed to pay the other two $1,500 for killing Fisher, whom Lafferty regard- ed as a rival for the love of a Buffalo nurse both men had been dating. Fisher was killed by a single 12 gauge shotgun blast in the back as he rode his motorcycle along a rural road in the Town of Villenova about 8:30 a.m. June 27. State Police charge Dobos fired the SECURITY DOOR Continued on Page 4 Protests Aired Over Pope's Plan To Visit Britain LONDON (AP) -- Pope John Paul II will become the first reigning pon- tiff to visit Britain in a trig tentative~ ly. planned for the summer of 1982, more than four Centuries after King Henry VIU's dispute with the Vatican split the English church from Rome. The pope has accepted an invita- tion from British Cardinal Basil Hume, the Roman Catholic informa- tion service said here Sunday. The announcement already hak aroused angry reaction from some militant Protestant clergy. Enmity between the Roman Cathol- ic Church and Church of England lasted long after Henry's break with Rome in 1534, when Pope Clement VII refused. to grant the king a divorce. In later years, many people from both sides were burned at the stake. The {li-feeling is not yet entirely gone, although many Protestant lead- ers quickly praised the visit as a step forward for ecumenism. No Trip to N. Ireland John Paul's travel plans were in- complete, but a church spokesman said they would not include a trip to Northern Ireland, where 2,053 people have died in 11 years of sectarian vic- lence between its half-million Cathol- ics and 1 million Protestants. The Rev. Ian Paisley, the fiery Northern Irish Protestant leader, de- nounced the pope's British trip. ''The blood of the martyrs cries out against this visit,\ he said. One of the province's leading Cath olic politiclans, Gerry Fitt, welcomed the trip and added: \It's a sad com- - ment that Northern Ireland has been isolated from this visit.\ Militant Scottish Protestant pastor Jack Glass of the Scottish Reformed Church called the pope's visit to Bri- tain \the greatest betrayal since Ju- das-Iscariot.\\-He-said-it- was \a-vile are easy third-round winners in the U.S. Open tennis championships. Page 9. Baltimore Is a winner, and New York a loser, again tightening the baseball race in the American League East, Page 10. . _ _ Sberman White is in camp, but Joe Deamielleure fails to show up as the Buffalo Bills practice in Rich Stadi- um. Page 11. ' Features Callers to the Courier-Express Opinion Line differ on what worker unrest in Poland will accomplish but they are unanimous in praise of the workers' gallantry. Page 28. Thanks to some digging by Courier- Action, a Franklinville reader will fi- nally be able to reclaim a watch mis- takenly left at a hospital three years ago. Page 23. The concluding article of a two-part series on the crisis in rural Western New York examines the experiences of the Village of Andover in attempts to turn the situation around. Page 2} Showtime Lead guitarist Mick Jones denies that England's Clash is breaking up. / Page 6. t Editorials President Carter's economic pro- gram for the 1980s appears to concede that he and his advisers offer little or nothing to halt inflation. Page 30. Eyre to Find It Bi Classified . 31-37 Lifestyle.. 2325 Comics .. . 38-39 Pictures .... 28 Crossword... 37 Sports .... 915 Editorial.... 30 Theater ..... 6 Horoscope... 38 TV ........ 22 DEATH NOTICES ON PAGE 31 then has been furloughed three times. When the ax last fell on Dec. 7, he was GDANSK, Poland (AP) - Govern- ment negotiators and Polish strikers reached a final agreement Sunday, ending the labor crisis in Gdansk and setting out sweeping political and eco- nomic reforms unprecedented in a Communist Bloc nation. \'We will go back to work with ener- gy,\ said one of thousands of workers at the Lenin Shipyard strike center here. The tired but exuberant throng roared in approval, and then began the cautious process of realizing their victory and restoring the nation's reeling economy. The agreement, signed by strike leader Lech-Walesa and chief govern- ment negotiator Deputy Premier Micczyslaw Jagielski, finished a cri- sis that had dragged on for 18 days, involving more than 350,000 workers in Poland's industrial north,. and had spread to more than 20 Polish cities by Friday. Will Honor Settlement R Workers elsewhere.in Poland, most notably in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, said they would honor-the Gdansk settlement and resume work upon its confirmation. On Saturday, strike leaders in the major western port of Szczecin reached an agree- ment with the government, and some enterprises were already operating again. . There were unconfirmed reports that the Gdansk and Szezecin agree- ments would apply to the other strik- ers. The strike, begun over a meat-price boost announced July 1, ended with promises of labor unions independent of government control, the right to strike for worker demands, and ping reforms affecting nearly ev- wo aisi ocz wrad r dime manasa i FURLOUGHED Continued on Page 4 ery facet of life in a Communist coun- try. . 'El-Point Agreement ''We will see to it that the new un- ~ > fon will always be Independent for the - sake of Poland,\ Walesa said: as he and Jaglelski signed the 21-point agreemment. \And now I declare the strike over, \I am glad to say*we ended our dispute without the use of force but by way of discussion. We showed that we can understand one another.\ * Jagleiski drew cheers when he said: \I have done for you what you have asked for. We were talking like The relationship of Helmut Schmidt's government to the Polish goversment becomes an issuein West German election campaigns. Page 5. ligament pleases Polish leaders here. Page 8. ers' gallantry. Page 28. Poles should talk to each other, like a ~ Pole talks to a Pole. ''There are no winners and there are no losers,\ he said. \We have now reached an agreement and it is only by good work that we can achieve what we agreed upon.\ Then he At its peak Friday, the strike in- volved an estimated 600,000 workers in more than 650 enterprises around Poland. Walkouts by transportation workers paralyzed a dozen cities, but Quality Auto Paint Baking as Low as $150. Teck Garage, 882-8833. . -Adv. dame wie ave cw ul n 4 a van & may be a danger to his life.\ During appearances at preliminary court Polish Government, Strikers Sign Agreement Ending Gdansk Strike many had returned to work by Sun- day. There was no way to tell exactly what economic damages were caused by the strike, Unofficial estimates were that the strike gost the nation millions of dollars per day in losses on exports of coal and other goods, while ships laden with foodlay idle off the silent docks in Gdansk and Gdynia. The strife also led to the replace- ment of nearly half-the ruling politu- ro, including Premier Edward Babi uch, a closeassociate of party leader Edward Gierek. The Gdansk and Szczecin workers apparently compromised with the *government by abandoning a demand for an immediate $67 per month raise, and acknowledging that the Commu- nist Party had ultimate control over Polish society. Strike sources said the latte concession angered some \hardline\ workers. Western diplomats saidthe government couldn't have accepted a settlement leaving the party's role unclear without risking Soviet inter- vention. \I believe you trusted me all the time,\ said Walesa in a message clearly aimed at the hardliners. \So believe me when I say-now: we achieved all we could.\ Inaddition to independent unions, thesettlement requiresauthorities to - review all cases of political prisoners within two weeks. A last-minute thréat of renewed worker intransi- gence forced Jagielski to promis that all dissidents arrested for assist- _ GDANSE Continuedon Page 4 \, - vies abomination\ and that thousands of Protestants would take to the streets if the pontiff setfoot in Scotland. 'Spirifual Renewal* ‘ But Cardinal Gordon Gray, leader of Scotland's Catholics, said: \The preparations for his visit can be a time of great spiritual renewal for the nation. am sure Its aftermath will bring us many blessings.\ And the the Right Rev. Dr. William Johnston, moderator of the General Assembly of the (Anglican) Church of Scotland, commented: \I would ex- pect the Church of Scotland to extend such courtesies to the pope as would be normal for a head of any other church coming to this country.\ The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcle, called the adverse Protestant reactions 'negative and fearful.\ He added: \'We need to lis- ten to one another and help each oth- er if Christ's volce and spirit are to be heard and felt in the world today.\ The announcement indicated the purpose of the trip is to bring the Catholic Church closer to other Chris- tlan churches in Britain. 'The pope stressed the great Importance he would attach to the ecumenical as- pect of the proposed pastoral visit,\ the announcement said. 5 Militon Catholles There are about 5 million Roman Catholics in Britain, where the na- tional churches are the Church of of Scotland and the Church of England, whose temporal head is Queen Ell- Pope John Pau! II ... plans British trip \Naturally if the queen is in Eng- land at the time of the visit, she will receive the pope,\ a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. The Queen is paying a state visit to Italy in October and will visit the pope at the Vatican Oct. 17, he added. The 1701 Act of Settlement, still in force, insures the Protestant royal succession by barring the heir appar- ent from a Catholle if he or she wishes to ascend to the British throne. That law recently became a hotly debated issue following rumors that Prince Charles planned to wed Cath- olic Princess Marle Astrid of Luxem- bourg. Buckingham Palace denied the rumors, but anti-monarchist law- makers selzed the issue and demand- ed a constitutional revision to elimi- nate a law they described as \dis- criminatory, offensive and insulting\ to British Catholics. R Protestants from Northern Ireland then demanded assurances from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that the-law would not be changed. Mrs. Thatcher later issued a state- ment saying she had ''no plans\ to change the law. Specuation Voiced The pope's visit here, and the queen's scheduled trip to the Vatican in October, touged off more specula- tion the royal family is trying to work out a way to get around the Act of Settlement and allow Charles to mar- ry the Catholic princess while retain- ing his right to the throne. Seven Protestant organizations, in- cluding the Protestant Reformation Society and the Grand Orange Order of Scotland, representing Northern freland Protestants living in Scot- land, are to present a petition to the prime minister on Monday demand- ing that \the pope's Invitation will be . kept strictly within the limits which have been suggested by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, that is a domestic visit to the Roman Catholic communi- | ty of this country.\ It also asked that the visit should ' not be used as \a lever for a change in any of the laws relating to the Pro- testant constitution of the country or of the Church of England.\ ] The Shah's Memoirs In the second installment from his book, \An- swer to History,\ the shah tells how a troubled stay in Panama was arranged before hefient to his destiny in Egypt. Faxed?!
