Aalice.266 net.db utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!daemon Fri Dec 18 09:04:30 1981 tots (a9002) u v PM-NewsDigest 12-18 0621 ^PM-News Digest,< ^AP PMs News Digest= ^Friday, Dec. 18, 1981= All PMs budgets have moved. Here is a list with laserphoto numbers. UNDATED _ The Polish government admits seven dead and more than 400 injured in battles with striking workers. From 15,000 to 75,000 arrests are reported, and Catholic church leaders demand the release of Lech Walesa. Slug PM-Polish Rdp, a0481. Laserphotos NY9,10. WASHINGTON _ The Reagan administration is advising Americans that it might be best for them to leave Poland because of the ``uncertain and unstable condition'' there, a situation being blamed at least in part on the Soviet Union. Slug PM-US-Poland, a0418. NEW YORK _ Americans aboard the first plane to arrive in the United States from Poland said there was no food or communications, people were arrested in the middle of the night, and workers sat idly in open factories. ``Tanks are all over ... and thousands of armed troops,'' one woman said. Slug PM-Polish Planes, a0483. Laserphoto staffing. VATICAN CITY _ Vatican documents just released say Pope Pius XII repeatedly warned President Roosevelt about Soviet aims in ``Catholic Poland'' and the rest of Eastern Europe. Slug PM-Pius-Poland, a0472. With NEW YORK-dated PM-Poland Poll. WASHINGTON _ President Reagan says ``it will be impossible'' for the United States to send food and economic aid to violence-torn Poland as long as thousands of persons are imprisoned and the country is under martial law. Slug PM-Reagan Rdp, a0428. Laserphotos WX1,2. WASHINGTON _ White House aides say President Reagan is likely to seek tax increases for 1983 despite his firm disavowal of any plans to do so. Slug PM-Reagan-Taxes, a0415. VERONA, Italy _ Four men posing as plumbers knock out the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer in Southern Europe, stuff him in a trunk, chain up his wife and drive off with the general. The Red Brigades is suspected. Slug PM-Kidnapping, a0486. Laserphoto covering. ROME _ For more than a decade, Italy's Red Brigades have bargained with the lives of politicians, judges, journalists and police officers. Slug PM-Red Brigades, a0492. UNITED NATIONS _ Israel makes clear it will ignore a unanimous Security Council resolution declaring its annexation of the Golan Heights ``null and void.'' Slug PM-UN-Golan, a0489 . Laserphoto NY7. NEW YORK _ A federal grand jury will be empaneled here to investigate alleged Taft-Hartley Act violations against Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan if a special prosecutor is not named in the case, government sources say. Slug PM-Donovan, a0473. WASHINGTON _ Although Iranian and U.S. diplomats continue to ignore each other on an official level, Iran gradually is returning to the fold as a lucrative market for American farmers, says an Agriculture Department expert. Slug PM-US-Iran Trade, a0412. PORT GIBSON, Miss. _ George Berryhill, the first rescuer to arrive on the scene of the fiery wreck of a van that killed four children and one adult, said the smoke that filled the burning vehicle was so thick that he could barely see inside. But he noticed a glimmer of flame that turned out to be a blazing coat wrapped around a little girl. Slug PM-Van Wreck, a0495. Laserphoto JX1. UNITED NATIONS _ In 1981, the price of a child's life was $100, but it was too high for the world to pay. Slug PM-UN-Children, a0491. WASHINGTON _ The 16 new Republican senators elected during the Reagan landslide of 1980 are know to certain critics as members of the ``popsicle brigade,'' a term used to describe their relative youth, as well as their inability to fit into the rhythm of the Senate and learn its rules and customs. Slug PM-Topic-Popsicle Brigade, a0427. Laserphoto NY17. AP-NR-12-18 0601EST<