News stories from Friday January 1, 1982

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

The departure of Richard Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, is planned, according to White House officials. They said his successor would be William Clark, now Deputy Secretary of State, and that the functions of the post would be upgraded. Mr. Allen has been on leave of absence pending the completion of a White House investigation of his activities. [New York Times] Higher air fares on many routes have been set for next week by several major airlines against a backdrop of heavily promoted price-cutting on the busy Florida and California routes. The move continues a trend of more than two years toward steadily higher fares on a systemwide basis. [New York Times] Dozens of social service programs sponsored by churches are hard put to maintain activities in the face of the massive federal budget cuts and increased demand. Officials of religious organizations say that voluntary aid can never replace all the services for the needy that have been financed by the government. [New York Times] Dumps for toxic chemicals and other hazardous wastes that are still in heavy use have prompted warnings by environmentalists. The federal government has started to clean up the most dangerous abandoned sites, but critics cite a lack of regulations on the continuing dumping of toxic wastes at hundreds of sites. [New York Times] Sex bias by a black company has been found by a federal district judge in Atlanta. He ruled that the Johnson Products Company Inc., one of the nation's largest black-owned businesses and a leading manufacturer of hair care products for black women, had violated federal laws barring discrimination against women in the workplace. [New York Times] William Rehnquist is being treated for side effects, including slurred speech, caused by drugs used to relieve severe back pain, according to Dr. Dennis O'Leary, dean of clinical affairs at George Washington University Hospital. But Dr. O'Leary stessed that the problems were not expected to be long-lasting and should not hinder the work of the Supreme Court Associate Justice. [New York Times] A warning against Solidarity's pleas for resistance to military rule was issued by Poland's Interior Minister, Czeslaw Kiszczak. In a New Year's message on the Warsaw radio, he cautioned the country's security forces not to be swayed by a "campaign of calumny by internal enemies and their foreign sponsors." [New York Times] The Pope supported Solidarity in the most explicit terms to date, saying the independent union had become an integral part of the "heritage of the work-ers of Poland and of other nations." Speaking from a window above a throng of 50,000 in St. Peter's Square, John Paul II used the Polish word "Solidarnosc" five times in an Italian-language New Year's address. [New York Times] Stranded Poles are returning home aboard Polish Airlines charters despite the restrictions imposed under martial law. The returnees, who reflect a wide range of Polish society, all carry packages and carry-on bags filled with sausages and other meats, cheese and chocolate. They are going home, as one young woman put it, "for reasons of the heart." [New York Times] Armed Ghanaian soldiers rampaged through parts of the capital of Accra, looting homes and shops in jubilation over the military overthrow of the civilian government, according to the Accra radio. The radio also reported that several associates of Hilla Limann, the ousted President, had been taken into custody. [New York Times] Loyalty to the Sandinists is seen in many impoverished communities in Nicaragua. In Ciudad Sandino, formerly called Open 3, residents have new schools and clinics, newly paved roads, newly installed sidewalks and buses for the eight-mile trip to work in Managua that they used to have to walk. One difference, said a nurse, "is that they aren't always having funerals for children" as in the days of the Somoza regime. [New York Times]