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.
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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
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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.
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