Loggins, Messina please All-U crowd Nationwide coal strike inevitable according to miners union official WASHINGTON (UPI) A nationwide coal strike Nov. 12 appeared imminent last night after the eight-week-old negotiations broke off in a dispute over when to bargain on economic issues. A United Mine Workers official said a strike appeared inevitable, and despite the industry's vow to nNotiate around.> the clock, the union bargaining council voted unanimously to go home and prepare for a strike. Both sides agreed that the Union %%anted to finish bargaining on economic issues white the operators wanted first to clean up the noneconomic matters, such as safety improvements, grievance procedures and shift rotations. The timing ,of the breakdown was important because of the eight-to-ten day union ratification procedure and its "no contract, no work" tradition. The strike deidline is 12:01 a.m. Nov. 12. and a walkout would affect 120,000 miners in 25 states who dig 70 per cent of the nation's soft coal. A strike longer than a few days could seriously affect the nation's economy as %;ell because the chief users electric Nixon better, taken off critical list LONG BEACH. Calif. (UPI) Richard M. Nixon was taken off the critical list yesterday and is well enough to sit up on the edge of his hospital bed and begin eating soft foods. "This is his best morning since this hospitalization began," Dr. John C. Lungren said in his daily medical report on the 61-year-old former president. Nixon's vital signs are all normal, Lungren said. and he is alert. Lungren said his medical report was "the most encouraging" since Nixon re entered Long Beach Memorial Hospital Oct 23 for tests on his phlebitis left leg. "Former President Nixon Ois mor- Kissinger plans Mideast talks BUCHAREST. Romania (UPI) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said yesterday he will spend three days in the Middle East conferring with Arab And Israeli leaders about moving ahead with peace talks. - Kissinger flew from Iran to Romania yesterday for talks with President Ceaucescu. He said the purpose of his Mideast mission was "to consult all parties in the Middle East on the significance of the Rabat (Arab) summit and pOssible next steps towards a Middle East peace." Kissinger said the meetings would take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Kissinger's Mideast trip is his second the daily Kenny Loggins utilities and steel producers had diminishing stockpiles of 11 weeks and 27 days, respectively, in August. "The bargaining council voted unanimously to go home and prepare for a strike," said UMW spokesman, Bernie Aaronson, assistant to President Arnold Miller. Miller said after the council meeting "there is a possibility of having an agreement and ratification without a strike." But he added the outlook is "pretty glum." He said he did not think a strike is "inevitable" and said the union has been working an "procedural methods of maybe shortening the time" in which to ratify a c zontract. He said the union is ready to go back to, the bargaining table when the operators; offer a counterproposal to the UMW! economic demands. Guy Farmer, genral counsel and chief negotiator for the Bituminous Coal Operators of America said, "I still think; we have a chance of averting a strike." But union secretary-treasurer Harry Patrick told reporters after leaving the ning is now off the critical list," the report said. "He remains on the seventh floor of the new critical care unit but is now under sub-intensive care which is a step down from critical care." He said Nixon slept at intervals during the night and for the first time since he lapsed into near-fatal shock following surgery last Tuesday was going to be allowed to sit on the edge of his bed. Additionally, the former president's diet was being enlarged to include such soft foods as custard, mashed potatoes, pureed meat and vegetables. Nixon was , given liquids, jello and consumme for the first time Saturday. in less than a month. He visited Egypt, Syria. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco and Israel Oct. 9-15. A few days later the Arab states recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian people despite Israel's insistence that t will never negotiate with the PLO. From Bucharest Kissinger will fly to Belgrade to confer with Yugoslav President Marshal Tito. On Tuesday Kissinger will make a speech to the opening session of the World iFood Conference in Rome, meet with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican and conferiwith leaders of the crisis-ridden Italian government. On the same day he will leave Rome Coll gian By LEAH ROZEN Collegian Staff Writer Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina bowled over the capacity crowd gathered in Rec Hall for their second concert on Saturday night. The musical team's performance . was marked by a high degree of pro fessionalism and very little spontaneity. It seemed as' though even Loggins' oc casional tired smiles were preplanned. The audience loved them. Loggins and Messina played most of their familiar hits. The least recognizable numbers, a couple of tunes from their new album "Mother Lode," sounded enough like the Impressions team's other . songs to meet with a friendly reception from the crowd. • The Loggins and Messina set began with the two of them sitting on stools center stag,., running through a short medley of some of their old hits, ac companying themselves on acoustic guitars. As they played these shortened ver sions of the old favorites, the opening notes of each song were greeted by loud cries of recognition from the audience, especially when they began to sing "House at Pooh Corners." A girl behind me screeched, "I can't believe it —I. know all f the songs." So would anybody who h lettened to the radio in the last two ears. The show was carefully paced. Slower numbers were interspersed with the faster, more rocking ones and in strumental interludes were played every so often. Never really_ pausing between numbers, the drummer kept things moving while Loggins and Messina switched guitars or fiddled with the amplifiers. negotiating table a strike is "inevitable." The BCOA said, "in the 'hope of reaching an agreement before time runs out we are willing to continue to negotiate around the clock." Aaronson said the talks "bogged down because they won't even respond to our last economic proposal" put forward Saturday. The union leaders accused the operators of walking out Friday night after a UMW revised economic package was presented. It proposed higher wages, cost-of-living escalators, im proved pensions and paid sick leave. Farmer said Miller adjourned yesterday's meeting when the two sides failed to agree which issues to put first. "We tried to compromise, we came back with a new proposal. They won't even give us any answer," Aaronson said. Farmer said, "We've made a great deal of progress. ,We were shooting for, trying to get it settled today but that was' just not humanly possible." He would not characterize the stalemate as an "iin Though he was taken off the critical list, Nixon will still be monitored con-I Lungren said, and the in-I travenous apparatus which kept him' alive during this critical period wilil remain attached *Jr any emergency' medication that should become necessary. : A respiratory therapist is working with Nixon every four hours to %id his breathing, Lungren said. Saturday's medical report said Nixon had been en codraged to cough and breathe deeply. Sunday's medical report was called by Lungren the most encouraging since Nixon underwent an hour-long operation for Cairo to see Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On Wednesday Kiksinger will fly to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Amman, Jordan. On Thursday he' will fly to Damascus, Syria, and go on the same evening to Israel. It is understood that Kissinger's primary purpose in returning so soon to the Middle East is to find out how the Arabs' decision to recognize the•PLO as the Palestinians' sole spokesman affects progress toward peace. Kissinger is reported to believe that the PLO recognition has complicateiMe ,chances of getting negotiations started, but he is still hopeful he can detect some flexibility. They rarely talked to the audience, other than to give a song title or to murmer "thank you" for the heavy applause. The instrumental sections were quite good,- especially • when dominated by Loggins' mandolin or the skilled playing by back-up man Al Garth on the fiddle and the saxaphone. At the end of Loggins and Messina's 45- minute set, the audience was on its feet, whistling and stamping for more. They were very insistent about getting_ an encore. Loggins and Messina returned to the stage and sang "Your Mama Don't Dance and Your Daddy Don't Rock and Roll." Messina would sing "Where you go?" and Loggins, at the other mike, would answer "yo rock and roll," as the audience attempted to clap in time. The audience on the main floor was standing on its chairs and the bleachers' crowd was also on its feet and swaying as the ream launched into a final song, "Vahevella." This inCided a long (really too long) instrumental section and Loggins and Messina coming down to the very edge of the stage to play. Loggins and Messina have been playing "Your Mama Don't Dance" and "Vahevella" as encores for over a year now. Although it did not look as if they were playing by rote, one never sensed, as one often does at rock concerts, that the unexpected was aping to happen. It didn't. Danny O'Keefe opened the concert. The audience talked throngout his set, stopping only to applaud when he finished a song they obviously had paid no attention to. He displayed a rough but attractive voice and some affecting songs, in cluding "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues," "Plain Speaking" and "The Road." He deserved better treatment than he got from Saturday's rowdy audiences. passe" and said even though resumption of talks were not scheduled, "we will,be getting back together." The vote by the bargaining council, which must approve the negotiators' position, to go home meant they would be returning to the 19 UMW districts, mostly in Appalachia. Safety could prove the toughest noneconomic issues of all. There have been 25- deaths in the mines since the contract talks started Sept. 3 and 430 deaths since t e existing contract was signed in_l97l. Miller has made safety one of his major demands: The two sides met for almost three hours yesterda3 , before breaking ,for lunch. They met' again for about 90 minutes Wore the disruption. If a strike takes place simply because the new contract has not been ratified by Nov. 12, sources said, it might be a short one because having miners off the job would speed up the ratification vote process. Any strike I ' re than two weeks colt) rce a serious doWnturn in the nal' 's economy. last Tuesday in which doctors inserted a clip in the former president's left thigh to block life-threatening blood clots from floating to his heart and lungs. Six hours after the operation, Nixon began losing blood internally and lapsed into shock which Lungren later said almost cost him his life. Since then, Nixon had been listed in critical condition until yesterday's report. On Friday, Nixon was visited by President Ford and Lungren said the eight-minute visit had given Nixon a "therapeutic boost." Following Lungren's formal report yesterday, Connie B. Hamilton, the head of critical care nursing at 'Long Beach Memorial, told newsmen the nursing staff was being cut back because of the patient's improved condition. While he was in .critical condition, Nixon always had one nurse monitoring him full time with a backup nurse close by. He will continue to have a nurse in his room at all times, she said, but the backup nurse will not be in the im mediatevicinity. She said Nixon has been talking with his nurses and "he is an extremely warm person." Weather Mostly cloudy through tomorrow with chance of a few showers today. More general rain developing tonight and con tinuing through tomorrow. High today, 68. Low tonight, 50. High tomorrow, 53. FII;;D:;:liY W I, ' 'CA:TEE • Ten cents per copy Monday. November 4, 1974 Vol. 75, No. 75 16 pages University Park, Pennsylvanii Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University Egypt seeks move of peace frofrl Sinai By UPI Egypt has demanded that the United Nations shift the headquarters of its peace-keeping forces from Ismailiya on the Suez Canal back to Cairo, a U.N. spokesman in Tel Aviv said yesterday. He said the U.N, delegation planned to go to Egypt from Jerusalem to discuss the request, which he said Cairo has been making for the past two months. An Isreali government source said the Egyptian request recalled the Egyptian demand for the removal of U.N. troops in the Sinai peninsula in May, 1967, shortly before the Israeli pre-emptive strike that launched the Six Day war. "The removal of the headquarters could be a first step so the U.N. forces wouldn't interfere" in case of renewed hostilities, the source said. About 5,000 U.N. troops police the separation of forces agreement and cease-fire worked out by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In Cairo, U.N. sources said Egypt maintains the request to remove the U.N. headquarters was made because persons in Ismailiya wanted their property back, In Jerusalem, a government spokesman said Prime Minster Yitz hak Rabin tomorrow will present Israel's formal reply to the decision of the Arab summit in Rabat, Morocco, to recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization as sole representative 1 5af the Palestinian people with the right to establish a separate state. The Israeli spokesman said Kissinger was tentatively expected to arrive in Israel Thursday, following exploratory talks in Cairo on the future of his Middle East mediation mission. PLO leadertYasser Arafat in an in terview with Time magazine urged the United Nations to take action to prevent the outbreak of a fifth Middle East war. "The Israelis are only asking Rabin for time to prepare, asking for six months, by which time they will be politically and militarily in a position to demolishthe effects of the October war," Arafat said. Arafat warned that the Soviet Union will intervene if the United States, tries, to secure. Middle East oilfields militarily. "The Israelis are trying to use what 3 COPIES Jim Messina keepers to Cairo is called the energy crisis for black mail," Arafat said in an interview in the latest issue of Time magazine. "They are trying to convince the West that they can be the spearhead of what is called the military solution." The guerrilla leader said any U.S. military - action would be "an ex tremely misleading calculation if the Americans think _ other superpowers will not act." Arafat called on the United Nations to put pressure on Israel not to stage a pre-emptive strike to regain territory lost in last year's October war. "It is my understanding that a majority of members of the Israeli Knesset are against any withdrawal from the West Bank," he said. He said Israeli Chief-of-Staff Gen. Mordechai Gur has declared that in the next war the "element of surprise will be on the side of Israel." Urging the end to U.S. mic and military support to Israel, Arafat said the resolution of the Palestinian question "could start a new era of cooperation with Arab countries." In Beirut, the newspaper An Nahar said yesterday that Kissinger proposed a peace agreement among Egypt, Jordan and Israel call for total Israeli withdrawal fro the Sinai peninsula and partial with drawakfrom the West Bank of the Jor dan Aver in exchange for a non belligerency pact. An Nahar said both Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein turned down the idea. It said Sadat told Arab leaders, "My real problem is not the Sinai but the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights and, of course, the rights of the. Palestinian people." . The newspaper said the Kissinger proposal called for continued pres ence of Israeli troops in strategic areas of the West Rank with Arab ad ministrative participation in major cities of the region. In Cairo, Treasury Undersecretary Gerald Parsky met yesterday with Egyptian economic officials to "break ground" on economic development and commercial relations ',between the two countries, a highly-placed U.S. source said. U.S. STA' De'. T'EFM
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