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News D 126St EditeTbyDtenaJohnson _________--— Walesa calls to rebuild Solidarity after ruling WARSAW, Poland - Lcch Walesa on Monday called on Poles to rebuild Solidarity “skillfully and quickly” just hours after a court de clared the independent union legal again and ended seven years of gov ernment suppression. “I appeal to all workers and sup porters of our union to form factory organizations as soon as possible where they still don’t exist and to report their membership in Solidarity or to join it,” said Walesa, in a state ment read in Warsaw by union spokesman Janus/. Onyszkicwicz. Onyszkicwicz said an independ ent union press should begin operat ing by the end of the month, and that Solidarity should get new national headquarters in Gdansk by Tuesday. “Our effort, devotion and suffer ing have not been in vain,” Walesa said in his statement. “We defended our workers’ rights, together we are paving a road to a fully democratic and sovereign Poland.” But he cautioned the “day of suc cess” came in hard economic times. “The Polish nation is facing tasks which are much more complex than in 1980. Now we must undertake a trial of real and deep economic re form and democratic restructuring of the state,” he said. The Warsaw provincial court reg istered the reborn Solidarity in the same room where its original charter was approved in November 1980. “We’ve just returned to the road of democracy and freedom,” Walesa said from his home in Gdansk, where he was recovering from a bad cold. Onyszkicwicz said Walesa stayed away in part because the union al ways regarded itself as legal, so the session had ‘‘a technical rather than symbolic nature.” Nevertheless, there was thunder ous applause when the verdict was complete, sealing an about-face ap proved earlier by Communist Party leaders. Polish leader Gen. Wojcicch Jaru/elski tried to dissolve Solidarity in a December 1981 martial-law crackdown, but now seeks the move ment’s help to pull Poland out of economic crisis. Senior Solidarity sources hinted a meeting might take place Tuesday between Jaru/elski and Walesa -- the army general and the union electri cian who are now part of an unlikely alliance for reform. It would be their first meeting since before martial law. Party and government officials also admit that by legalizing the un ion they hope to encourage the West to provide economic help to Poland, burdened by a S38 billion foreign debt. President Bush on Monday an nounced an aid package to help Po land’s economy. He told a Polish Amcrican crowd in Hamtramck, Mich., that continued aid would de pend on consistent moves by the communist government toward re form. The concessions could open the way for up to $1 billion in new loans, loan rescheduling and trade and in vestment relief, according to admini stration and international monetary sources. Wright charged with violations I WASHINGTON - The House Ethics Committee, with Demo crats and Republicans united, for mally charged Speaker Jim Wright Monday with 69 violations ol the chamber’s rules including what the panel’s chairman called a scheme to evade’’ limits on out side earnings. After a 10-month, SI.5 million investigation, the committee of six Democrats and six Republicans voted unanimously to issue a re port finding “reason to believe the Texas Democrat had run aloul of House rules requiring reporting of gifts, barring acceptance of gif is from persons with a direct interest in legislation and limiting outside earned income. “I know in my heart I have not violated any of the rules of that institution," Wright said in a speech to a labor meeting shortly al ter the ethics report was released. He said he had asked "very urgently, very earnestly" for a quick meeting with the committee “to confront them, to confront the allegations head-on, lacc-to face." ’ At a news conference, commit tee chairman Rep. Julian Dixon, D-Calif., emphasized that Wright is presumed innocent until the charges are proven, and he under scored that proving them requires a much higher weight ol evidence than the step taken Monday, which is the panel’s equivalent of an in dictment. The move set in motion a series of steps in which Wright can de fend himself and the panel must prove with clear anil convinc ing” evidence that the violations occurred. That is likely ultimately to throw the matter before the full House, where Wright’s position as the nation’s highest elected Demo crat, or even his House seal, could be on the line. Wright immediately began his defense in earnest, operating what one supporter. Rep. Charles Wilson, D Texas, called “a war room” out of his office. “At some point wo ve got to start figuring out who s on our side and who’s on the other side,” Wilson said. Wilson predicted Wright would win on the floor, ‘‘losing a few j cowardly Democrats and picking up some brave Republicans.” Poll: Abortion ban won’t stop abortion NEW YORK - Though a sizable minority of adults oppose abortions, Americans overwhelmingly believe that banning them would do little to curtail them, a Media General-Asso ciated Press survey has found. With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to reconsider the issue next week, the national poll found support for legal abortion ranging from 50 percent to 65 percent of the 1,108 adults polled, depending on the ques tion posed. Fifty-three percent, for example, were in favor of the court’s 1973 ruling legalizing abortion in the first three months of pregnancy. And if the court reversed itself and let each state make its own abortion law, 57 per cent would want abortion legal in their state. Moreover, large majorities said outlawing abortion would fail to pre vent it from occurring - an argument used by those who argue many women would have unsafe illegal abortions if the operation were banned. The poll asked: “If abortion were illegal in your state, do you think that would stop most women there who want abortions from having them, or would most of them go to another state where it was legal?” Eighty seven percent said the women would go to another state. The survey next asked if making abortions illegal nationwide would stop most women from having them, or if those women would have illegal abortions or go to a country where abortion is legal. Seventy-three per cent said most women would find a way to have abortions. The survey nonetheless found its closest split on the question of a con stitutional amendment to make abor tions illegal except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother: Fifty percent were opposed and 44 percent in favor, a division within the poll’s margin of error. No amendment with those provi sions is before Congress, but they are the terms President George Bush has said he would support. jonn tmice/uauy NeorasKan Anti-nostalgists say stop rehashing ‘60s CHICAGO - Does “The Big Chill” leave you cold? Tired of hearing “oldies” older than you on TV commercials? Three exas perated young upstarts say, “ Right on!” The reminder that the calendar says 1989 comes from the National Association for the Advancement of Time - three guys in their 20s who say “We want to end the ’60s in your lifetime.” “Let’s make nostalgia a thing of the past!” say these fellows who’ve had enough of the baby boom -- that huge post-World War II generation whose sheer bulk spurred creation of the retail mar ket for teen-agers, divided the na tion over Vietnam and now is tak ing up space discovering adult hood - marriage, careers and ba bies destined to grow up hearing stories about Woodstock. Anti-nostalgia crusader Eugene Dillcnburg dismisses baby boom ers as “50 million teenagers who never grew up.” But they won’t go away. “There’s so many of them. If they want to live in their past, that’s fine -- but they’re forcing ME to live in their past,” gripes Dillcnburg, 29, of Chicago. He founded NAFTAT with friends Bruce Elliott of Los Angeles and John Keeney of New York City. Here’s a sampling from Dillcnburg’s long list of com plaints: Movies - “The Big Chill.” Theater — the revival of “Hair.” Television -- “The Wonder Years.” Print Media -- Bob Greene’s nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune column. Books — volumes on the riotous 1968 Democratic National Con vention in Chicago, “as insignifi cant an event as ever happened in this country.” N AFT AT is part of a natural anti-boomer backlash, according to Northwestern University soci ologist Bernard Beck, who says any cultural statement that lasts too long “seems to generate re sentment.” By failing to step aside “the way it’s supposed to,” the baby boom generation has “thrown out of kilter the ordinary succession of generations,” Beck said. “There always has been dis dain toward this generation be cause there’s so many of us in it,” observed Greene, singled out by Dillcnburg as a sort of arch boomer. Greene defends nostalgia, saying readers of all ages respond to his columns about the past. But when Dillcnburg and Elli ott got together in 1987 and dis covered their mutual exasperation with “oldies” radio, they decided it was time to get the Monkccs off their backs. Preserve what is worth remem bering from the ’60s - the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the civil rights movement, for example - and scrap the rest, Dillcnburg suggests. NAFTAT cranks out leaflets calling on sympathizers to “fight for the present and annoy a lot of self-important ex-hippies in the process.” Today’s young people may not go in for demonstrations, but they care about apartheid and other is sues, he said. NAFTAT’s feelings about the baby boomers are not altogether different from the reaction the post-war generation got from their “silent majority” elders 20 years ago, Beck said. Many parents waited through the Depression and World War II to have children, and their off spring “grew up being told by everyone around them - and be lieving - that they were the most important thing in the world,” he said. “They arc endlessly fascinated w ith their own lives,” he said, and their vast numbers make every setback “central cultural busi ness.” The message baby-boomers send to others, Dillcnburg said, is: “You missed the '60s - your life is meaningless Your life is irrele vant because it came after mine." Standing-room-only areas may be banned in England SHEFFIELD, England - Criti cism increased Monday into the po lice handling of the soccer stadium disaster that killed 94 fans, and the government launched its own inquiry and said it may ban standing-room only sections. Officials and fans accused the South Yorkshire police of letting thousands of late arrivals into Hillsborough stadium - and then responding too slowly when the surg ing crowd was crushed against a steel anti-riot fence in one of the standing room-only terraces. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, speaking to a hushed House of Com mons, said the inquiry headed by Lord Justice Taylor would begin work Tuesday and “make recom mendations about the needs of crowd control and safety at sports grounds. ’ ’ We have to set our sights high and lind a better way for British foot ball (soccer),’’ Hurd said. “We owe a duty to these passionate supporters of looiball to examine urgently and thoroughly the causes and back ground and to do all in our power to prevent such a thing happening again.’’ Hurd told the Commons the deci sion ol a senior police officer to open the gate because he “considered that there was a possible danger to the lives of the spectators at the front” would he a central question for inves ligators. Survivors said about 4,(XX) fans were pushing at turnstiles to get inside. Hillsborough gatekeeper Jack Stone lold the Sheffield Star he re fused police orders to open the outer gale and was forced to hand over his keys to a police inspector. ‘ ‘ 1 handed the keys to him and lold him it was his responsibility and not mine,” Stone was quoted as saying. Liverpool fan Stephen Milton, who was caught in the crush outside the gale, told BBC-TV: “The steward put his hand on the gale and said, ‘Don’t open it.’ The police said, ‘Open the gate. There’s going to be a crush.’ Then two police officers opened the gate. Police released the names of those killed in the disaster. All were British, 34 were teen agers, 33 were in their 20s, and seven were women. Press Association, Britain s do mestic news agency, said as many as 40 who perished arc thought to have died in the rush through a tunnel to the center terrace at the Liverpow goal. The rest were crushed against the 10-fool fence in front of the ter race or were trampled undertook i said. ,7 They ranged in age from 10to° Of the 170 injured, 47 remained nos pilali/cd Monday, including intensive care. Nebraskan Editor Curt Wagner Night News Editors Victoria Ayott* 472-1766 Chris Carroll Managing Editor Jane Hirt Librarian Anne Mohrl Assoc News F ditors Lee Rood Art Directors John Bruce _ Bob Nelson Andy Manhart tditonai Pago Editor Amy Edwards General Manager Dan Shattll Wire Editor Diana Johnson Production Manager Katherine P nr P,a"y Nfp«skan(USPS 144-080) IS published by theUNL Publications Board_Ne_ wlar t^LT.34' 1400 R SI 1 inC01^ NE. 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