Contract
but U.S
ASIIINGTON t API Negotiations
ticti contract for coal miners con
tinued esterday as the nation prepared
tor di icast a i o-week strike
Representatives of the United Mine
I‘orkers and Ihe coarindustky, met for
two h9urs In the afterhoon, then had a
-4 , -hour recess and met again in the
e‘ening
The present contract expires, at 12:01
.1 01 tomorrow, and ritificationlof a new
pact %%ould require about 10 days.
A trtke is assured because of the
1•N1W tradition of "no contract, no
(Irk -
In the coat mining country, few of the
companies called miners to work
!;esterday after a flurry of activity
Saturday, apparently in an attempt to
build up coal supplies.
The companies are not expected to call
creNks today, which is Veterans' Day
holiday for the miners.
Railroads winch carry coal are ex-
Ford pleased with Kissinger trip
WASHINGTON ( UP! President
Ford said after a three-hour review of
foreign policy developments with
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at
Camp David, Md., yesterday that results
at Kissing,ers 17-country trip were
"basically very• encouraging."
Ford made the statement in front of the
diplomatic entrance of the White House
atter stepping off the helicopter on the
south lawn He was accompanied by
Kissinger who said nothing but stood by
the President striiling.
I just want,4o announCe , that I had a
yet' interegiag, helpful' and in-depth
revie‘% with he Secretary of State,"
Ford told a chister of reporters who had
ruched to the White House when told
there tk uuld bea Presidential statement.
Ford described Kissinger's 17-day
23.000 mile journey as a "backbreaker,'
and said "The trip was basically very en
couraging."
Israel fights economic
JERUSALEM (UPII Israel irn
posed the severest austerity measures in
its history yesterday to head off
economic catastrophe, combining a 43
per cent devaluation of the pound with
price increases that boosted the cost of
living 17 per cent overnight.
Pollee in a slum neighborhood of Tel
A\ iv said they' arrested 13 persons
demonstrating against the price hikes by
,mashing windows, overturning buses
and throwing rocks at helmeted
patrolmen. No serious injuries were
reported.
The drastic measures to curb con
sumption by raising basic consumer
prices were designed to save- money
needed for vital defense expenditures
and raw matgrials.
"This is the most severe economic
program in the history of the state,"
Ben-Ami Zuckerman, dputy director of
Weather
Considerably Cloudy and cool today,
high 57. Allostll - cloudy and cool tonight
ith a chance of showers, low 47. Cloudy
with periods of rain likely tomorrow,
high 55
NEIL HUTTON (n) changes his mind here as a hungry Wolf readies to pounce on him. Penn State
Bigbad Wolf v..as rewarded for its 12-7 loss to N.C. State Saturday with a Cotton Bowl bid. For stories on the
game. see page 7.
C • Ilegian
the
daily
negotiations continuing,
preparing for coal •strike
peeled to be hit early by a strike. The
Penn Central Railroad has said it will
probably lay off 1,500 workers now and
more later if the strike goes beyond a
week.
Other industries that depend on coal,
such as steel mills and electric power
companies, are worried about;how long
the strike would last.
John D. Ridge, head of Pennsylvania
State University's department of
economic geology and mineral
economics, said a six-week strike could
result in a million people losing their
jobs and energy production cut by about
a third.
Both sides in the contract negotiations
indicated a settlement was within reach.
. UMW President Arnold Miller said
problems still remained in four or five
areas but added, "we're making
progress." His industry counterpart,
Guy Farmer, who had been hopeful of a
He also said Kissinger told him the
meeting with Soviet leader Leonid I.
Brezhnev was "very helpful."
Ford will meet Bzhnev for the first
time as President at a Siberian-summit
Nov. 23-24 at the windup of his Far
Eastern tong beginning next Sunday. The
President also will travel to Japan and
South Korea before going on to
Vladivostok for a two-day meeting with
Brezhnev 7
Ford also said Kissinger brought back
"encouraging news" from the Middle
East and from the subcontinent where he
helped reduce policy differences with In
dian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi.
Ford said he was "very grateful and
appreciative" of what he called
Kissinger's "almost superhuman ef
fort."'
We're looking forward to a con-
state revenue in tly,. finance ministry,
told newsmen.
It thus cost an Israeli 65 per cent more
to live than it did little more than a year
ago. Government economists estimated
it will cost an average family of four
earning $350 a month an additional $B3.
Moshe Mandelbaum, director-general
of the commerce and industry ministry,
said the price increases forced the cost
of living up 17 per cent in one jump.
Gasoline prices are now the highest in
the world with high test going for $2.66 a
gallon.
The new prices on basic items, in
cluding a 200. per cent jump for • 2.2
pounds of sugar becauSe of a withdrawal
of a government subsidy exceeded by
wide margins the percentage of the
devaluation that dropped the pound from
4.20 to 6 to the dollar.
The government banned imports for
six months on 29 lu2cury items that
ranged from automobiles and washing
machines to beer and chewing gum. It
hoped to keep $7OO million in the country
because of the restriction.
Finance Minister Yehoshua
Rabinowitz in a radio address said the
nation no longer could afford defense
spending with the same level of con
sumption.
weekend settlement, said today was
more likely.
An industry source said the main
hurdle was the union's insistence on the
right to strike over grievances.
"Everything else is negotiable," the
source said.
The industry says it has to have a
guarantee to safeguard against strikes
to permit high-level production. Wildcat
strikes and absenteeism led to 2.4
million lost man-days in 1973, according
to : the industry's figures.
A UMW spokesman denied the
grievance issue was the. stumbling
block. "There's a whole host of issues,"
he said, adding that there hid been no
movement by the industry in the
economic area for the last three days.
The spokesman also said some safety
issues were still outstanding and the
whole grievance procedure, not just' the
right to strike.
As the negotiations continued through
structive trip to Japan, South Korea and
the Soviet Union" said Ford.
The Ford-Kissinger get-together at
Camp David was the first in the series of
sessions the two men will have for
Kissinger to prepare the President for
his first major foreign trip.
They are expected to meet daily for at
least two hours this week to lay the
groundwork for the journey, which has
caused tension in Japan and the
possibility of anti-American demon
strations. I .
The politicall opposition to South
Korean President Park Chung-}lee also
is protesting Ford's trip.
And the proximity to China of
Vladivostok, where Ford and Brezhnev
are to meet, has 'diplomatic ramifi
cations. Kissinger will fly from the So
viet Union to Peking "to keep a balance
in the detente," Ford said.
If was Ford's first opportunity to see
disaster
"We must not make the mistake of
deluding ourselves that-we shall be able
to keep up the scale of services of days of
peace and' plenty when the economic
reality is one of war and shortages," he
said.
Some supermarkets closed to avoid
chaos yesterday. Those that stayed open
were besieged by housewives loading
carts with stock bought at the old prices.
The price increases on some items
ranked as the highest ever, including 64
per cent for high test gasoline, 78 per
cent for kerosene, 100 per cent for
heating oil, 112 per cent for margarine,
52 per cent for eggs, 60 per cent for milk,
136 per cent for cooking oil, and 72 per
cent for white bread.
"We have wars and we have no
money," said Mrs. Din - a, Cohen, 50, of
Jerusalem. "My brother had five
children and has been trying to improve
himself, and now with this I just don't
know."
It marked the sixth devaluation of the
pound since the first Arab-Israeli war in
1948. The previous devaluation occurred
in August, 1971, when the pound dropped
from 3.50 to 4.20 in response to the
floating of the dollar.
the weekend with both sides presenting
proposals and counter-proposals, other
industries dependent on coal prepared
for the — inevitable walkout by 120,000
UMW members who produce two-thirds
of the nation's coal.
'Most miners cleaned out their lockers
after working overtime Saturday and
were not expected back today because it
is Veteran's Day, a holiday under the
UMW contract.
In the tiny mining towns scattered up
and down the hollows of the Appalachian
coal fields, the men were preparing to
live without their paychecks.
"I'm ready," said Gerald Dulley, a
minor from Grant Town, W. Va. "I've
killed beef, I've save money, I'm stocked
in groceries. No one is going back until
we get what the union is asking fort
A walkout lasting longer than two
weeks is expected to disrupt the nation's
economy severely by forcing production
cutbacks in numerous industries•
Kissinger since the Secretary of State
left 19 days ago on a whirlwind diplo
matic swing through Europe, the Middle
East and Asia. Kissinger returned
to Washington Saturday i and White
House aides said he would brief Ford on
results of the trip as well.
Ford, who flew to the hideaway in the
Cotoctin mountains early Friday evening
for a weekend of rest and relaxation with
his family, arranged to fly back to the
White House after his meeting with
Kissinger.
Earlier Sunday, Ford swam in the
heated outdoor pool outside his quarters,
played tennis and watched part of the
televised football game between the
Washington Redskins and the
Philadelphia Eagles.
Mrs.' Ford, daughter Susan, 17, and
Susan's date, Gardner Britt,, were also at
Camp David.
The Fords' son Steve, 184 and his girl
friend, Dee Dee Jervis, left at mid
morning to return to Washington. Steve
was returning to his ranching job in Mon
tana later.
Ford plans to have similar meetings
with Kissinger - throughout the week
before departing next Sunday for Tokyo,
where he will begin with two rounds of
talks with Japanese Prime Minister
Kakeui Tanaka.
Ford spends three days in Japan
before traveling to Seoul for meetings
with South Korean President Chung Park
Hee. He concludes the journey by
meeting Brezhnev near the Siberian city
of Vladivostok.
Kissinger and other aides will ac-
company the President most of the way
on the trip, Ford's first extended tour
abroad since he took office three months
ago.
White House aides said Ford also
worked Sunday on proposals for cutting
at least $5.4 billion from the current
federal budget in an effort to hold the
total to $3OO billion.
The President plans to send his recom
mendations to Congress shortlyafter the
House and Senate reconvene Nov. 18.
along with a list of about 40 pieces of
legislation he wants given top priority.
Student lobbyists set
By SHEILA McCAULEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Michaels, also from Penn State, was
Pennsylvania students are well on elected assistant Treasurer.
their way to joining the lobbying ranks of At a board meeting to be held Dec. 13
ITT and the AFL-CIO. at Drexel University a permanent board
Representatives from 34 schools in the chairman will be elected.
Pennsylvania Student Lobby elected a The lobby named as its first priority
board of directors and established lobby increasing state educational aid. The
priorities at a convention here this lobby also will push for student con
weekend. sumer protection, especially in landlord-
By-laws for a lobby proposal will be tenant relations, and for individual and
revised or approved by a special eel- minority rights, especially "political
mittee. The committee then will submit participation and majority status of
its recommendations to lobby young people."
representatives for their final approval. Missing from the priority: list was
The PSL Board of Directors consists of legalization of 18-year-old drinking in
15 members, five at-large from the PSL Pennsylvania. Board Chairman Muraca
Assembly, and 10 from five categories of said educational issues should come first
Pennsylvania post-secondary schools. for PSL. But he said PSL eventually will
The categories, which include state-, work for such legislation as a lowered
related, state-owned, independent, drinking age.
community and technical schools, each - ' Muraca said PSL is considering form
elected two members to the board. mg twn corporations lobbying and
Frank Muraca, a Penn State student, research.
Nixon-ruining tape to be played today
WASHINGTON (AP) The tape that During that June 23 conversation, six
broke Richard M. Nixon's grip on the days after the Watergate break-in, Nixon
presidency leads off the fifth week of approved a suggestion that the Central
testimony at the Watergate . cover-up Intelligence Agency be used to try to get Release of that transcript was the first
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trial. the FBI to limit its investigation. public acknowledgement by Nixon that
The prosecutors plan to begin playing a "They should call the FBI in and he had a role in the Watergate cover-up
series of tapes this week starting with a - ( Unintelligible) don't go any further into long before March 21, 1973, when John W.
June 23, 1972, conversation between this case, period," Nixon was h quoted on Dean 111, then White House counsel,
Nixon and H. R. Haldeman, then White the transcript. ' I briefed Nixon on the involvement of
House staff chief. White House and re-election committee
Nixon released a transcript of the June In his statement put out with the tran- personnel in the break-in and cover-up.
23 tape last Aug. 5 and acknowledged it script, Nixon acknowledged that "I was
"may further damage my case." Before aware of the advantages this. course of Dean testified as the first prosecution
the week ended he had resigned. action would have with respect to witness at the trial.
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Maza named as new
USG vice president
By JIM KUHNHENN
Collegian Staff Writer
Undergraduate Student Government
President George Cernusca last night
announced his nomination of USG
Senator Jim Maza as his new vice
president.
Maza will fill the office made vacant
by former vice president Marian
Mientus's resignation if his nomination
Meets with the approval of the USG
Senate and the Academic Assembly.
Both bodies of the USG Congress will
receive the nomination at their first
meetings Winter Term.
Vowing to maintain open com
munication between students and ad
ministrators, the tenth term pre-law
student said he wants to "restore con
fidence in USG to deal effectively with
the issues that face it."
Maza • also discussed the working
relationship of the USG Senate and the
Academic Assembly. Both bodies
comprise the congress of USG. "All our
goals seem to be unified, but our tactics
seem to get &Infused," he said.
He said individuals as well as struc
ture make up government and added
that, "we as people can examine our
roles ... (so that they) would be, ad
vantageous to the whole college corn
munity."Maza, who voted against all the ar
ticles for the impeachment of Cernusca,
said the vice presidency had not been
offered to him as a reward for his anti
impeachment stand.
Maza also has been involved in the
.newly formed constitutional convention,
but he said that as vice president a
position in the convention might prove
"taxing to my own time."
Maza said the constitutional con-
was elected temporary chairman of the
board and acting PSL Treasurer. Pam
Jim Maza
vention should not act in haSte and said
whatever proposal is examined should
be "thought out."
Cernusca said USG will exist for at
least another five months and therefore
the USG activities must be maintained
throughout those five months.
Cernusca also discussed the recent
decisions handed down by the USG
Supreme Court on two grievances
concerning alleged discrepancies in the
handling of the impeachment hearings.
The court, whose decisions were
revealed Friday, rejeded the first
grievance and declined to rule on the
second.
In the text of the firsP,grievance, filed
by Cernusca and USG - Senators Sharon
Spitz and John Philips, Cernusca
charged that former USG Senate
President Pro Tempore Fred Stoner had
unconstitutionally ruled that im
peachment articles can pass with only a
majority of senators present.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Lou
Martarano last night said the court had
voted against the grievance in spite of a
"gut feeling" to vote the other way. He
said there was a question of justice in
volved but legally Cernusca's charges
had no base.
Cernusca said last night that the court
had been forced into such a position
because of inadequacies within the USG
Constitution. He added that as- a result
he favored attempts of the constitution
al convention to provide a solution to
those inadequacies.
The court decided not to rule on the
second grievance which challenged the
credentials of certain appointed
senators. The court declined to rule on
the grievance because of conflicting oral
testimony which it termed "hearsay, at
best."
priorities
The lobbying corpo'raTron would
handle the actual business of PSL. The
research corporation would be a non
profit, tax exempt organization.
The tax exempt status would permit
private donations and corporation
contributions to PSL.
Fimding is the biggest problem PSI,
faces right now. The board set up a
special funding committee to study
different methods of raising money. One
suggestion was a "golden membership"
for schools who contributed $5OO or more
to PSL.
PSL leaders are optimistic about the
lobby's success. Gov. Shapp supported
the lobby and asked for a post-November
election meeting with lobby leaders,
other Pennsylvania student leaders and
Stat6'. Secretary of Education John C.
Pit i4ger. ,
Pit anger and U.S. Senator Richard S:
Schweiker also have voiced support for
PSL.
limiting possible public exposure of in
volvement by persons connected with the
re-election committee."
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