4—The. Daily Collegian Tuesday, April 7, 1981 Striking miners in St. Clairsville i Ohio run back to their trucks and cars after throwing rocks at a truck convoy hauling non-union coal from the Ohio Coal Co. The miners broke at leak five windows in the trucks an apparently were gone form the scene before the Belmont County Sheriff arrived. UMW may revive talks By MERRILL HARTSON AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) United Mine Workers President Sarii Church is calling a meeting of the union's bargaining coun cil in an apparent effort to revive con tract talks with the soft coal industry, a top union spokesman said yesterday. Eldon Callen said letters were sent to the 39 members of the bargaining council yesterday, the 11th day of the UMW strike. Church was still vacationing and un available for comment on the meeting, scheduled for Friday at the union's inter national headquarters here. The union president has been in seclu- meeting) will be internal. The BCOA is sion since a tentative three-year contract not involved," he said. "At least there is, with the Bituminous Coal Operators As- some movement as far as the union is sociation was rejected by the •UMW's concerned." rank .and file miners in an election last Jack Perry, president of District 17 in Tuesday. The vote among the 160,000 Charleston, W.Va.,where the contract union members was roughly 2-to-1 • lost by an overwheming margin, said he against the proposal.' had not yet learned of plans for the Following disapproval of the contract, Friday meeting in Washington. Bobby R. Brown, president of Consolidiv The UMW has been placed in financial ibn Vidal of Pittsburgh and chief straits because of the;contract rejection. BOkharkEliner; accused miners, of 10- Callen'confirmed yesterday that 43 per lowiiig The advice of union dissidenta in sons approiimateli half of the staff'- iejecting - thepactcand declared that ito has been laid off. The union has no strike new negotiation's were planned. • fund, and during strikes cannot collect Maurice Feibusch, a BCOA spokes- dues from its members, who pay about man, said yesterday the industry group $2B a month. was standing by its earlier statement The Reagan administration has stead despite the union's plans for the bargain- fastly refused to intervene in the contract ing council'session. talks between the union and the industry, It was not immediately known on what although Libor Secretaryßaymond Do- Guerrillas try to oust Obote By ANDREW TORCHIA Associated Press Writer KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) Guerrillas trying to oust , guerrilla war to topple Obote and claimed he had 5;000 fighters. President Milton Obote said, yesterday they killed 47 soldiers in Museveni's Uganda Patriotic Movement was defeated by Obote an ambush last week and government sources said 35 people in the presidential elections. died Sunday in a guerrilla attack on a military camp. Since February, Museveni's Popular Resistance Army has The attacks were the latest in a series of assaults, by claimed responsibility for numerous attacks and bombings, guerrilla groups trying to topple Obote's 3-month-old govern- including an ambush last month on a military convoy in which ment. The guerrillas claim last December's election, which ' the guerrillas claimed to have killed '75 Ugandan and Tanzanian returned former President Obote to power, was fraudulent. soldiers. Villagers disputed the guerrilla claims. . Diplomatic sources confirmed the guerrilla ambush, but A government source here said that on Sunday guerrillas reported 44 soldiers were killed in the attack on two troop- overran a 150-man military camp at Kakiri, 18 miles to the carrying trucks last Tuesday. • west, and killed 20 soldiers. The source, who asked not to be The diplomats also reported an opposition leader was named, said 15 guerrillas died and that skirmishes continued bayoneted by Obote's soldiers and hauled from the Nile yesterday. Mansion Hotel to a jail cell where he died. Diplomats said George Bakulu Mpagl Wamala, a former In Nairobi, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Army, journalist who runs a public relations firm and acts as publicity the guerrilla group headed by former Ugandan Defense Min- secretary foi the Popular Resistance Army, was bayoneted ister Yoweri Museveni, claimed responsibility for last week's three times, kicked and dragged through the Nile Mansion ambush. Hotel lobby by government troops. • • • News Briefs U.S. requests drop of claim against Iran THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) The United States asked the Internation al Court of Justice yesterday to dismiss the American claim against Iran for damages resulting from seizure and holding of the 52 American hostages. ' U.S. Embassy spokesman Jacob Gil lespie said the petition also reserved for the United States the right to reinstitute proceedings if Iran fails to live up to the Jan. 19 agreement, signed in Algeria, which ended the hostage crisis. The requirements include the return of the embassy building in Tehran and seized U.S. documents, he said. A spokesman for the court, which is the judicial arm of the United Nations, said the court's approval of requests to dis miss complaints are granted routinely by an order of the court's 15 justices. The court ruled last May 24 that the hostages must be freed, that American property including the embassy building must be returned and that Iran must pay damages The case was left open so damages could be calculated when the hostages were freed. Iran ignored the proceed ings. In the Algerian settlement, the Ameri can government agreed to withdraw all pending claims against Iran, including the "World Court" case. The agreement calls for a tribunal to be set up in The Hague or another mu tually acceptable city to settle hundreds basis Church decided to summon bar gainers back to Washington, but one union official, Tom Gaston of Kentucky, said yesterday he felt the meeting would deal with UMW contract strategy. He said he had no reason to believe the meeting was being arranged because of any move by the industry back to the bargaining table. "Sam is going to be wanting to know what it will take to work something out that would be acceptable to the industry and to the miners," said Gaston, one of those who negotiated the contract that was spurned a week ago. "From what I hear, it (the Friday of millions of dollars in corporate finan cial claims between Iran and the United States. F- 1 6 crashes while during war games HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) An F-16 aircraft crashed while participating in war games yesterday, but the U.S. Air Force pilot ejected and apparently escaped injury, officials said. Maj. Charles Emery Jr. of the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, was thrown from the fighter about 15 miles south of Holloman Air Force Base, said Lt. Andy Bourland of the Holloman public affairs office. Emery apparently was uninjured in the accident but was taken to the hospital at Holloman via helicopter for a routine examination, Bourland said. Mr Force officials were investigating the cause of the crash of the single-en gine fighter, Bourland said. Emery was among 21,000 Army, Ma rine, Air Force, Navy and National Guard troops participating in Border Star 'Bl, major war games being con ducted by the United States Readiness Conunand to test the preparedness of the Five still missing from boat wreckage COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) Searchers dragged the Chattahoochee River yester- In February, Museveni, who helped Tanzanian forces oust dictator Idi Amin two years ago, announced he was launching a novan has said he has been watching developments carefully. Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., expressed concern about the strike Sunday and urged the two sides to resume bargaining "as soon as possi ble." Byrd said the nation "really can't endure" a lengthy strike of the kind that idled coal mines and caused widespread disruptions in electrical service three years ago. The tentative three-year settlement with the 130 coal companies represented . by the BCOA, which included a 36 per cent increase in miners' wages and bene fits, was approved 21-14 by the bargaining council March 24. But the last vote tally reported official ly by UMW headquarters last Tuesday' night showed the contract losing by about a 68 percent to 32 margin. The UMW _ hasn't reported the final results. Most of the dissent was based on' argu -ments that the contract would have com promised union security by offering the potential for union coal :companies to Jease tirir idjierations, t 9 non union Opponents to `tie pact also said they could not abide the union leadership's agreement to•forsake a provision first installed in the contraqt in 1964 reqpir ing coal operators to pay to the union's health and pension funds a $1.90-a-ton royalty for each ton of non-union coal purchased and processed in-union mines. day for the bodies of five people missing and presumed dead after a 14-foot alumi num boat was swept over a 10-foot water fall Saturday. By late afternoon, however, the searchers reported no success in locating the five people, four of them children. Two girls were pulled from the river alive after the accident Saturday, but one of the two, 8-year-old Adrian Brown, died Sunday at the Columbus Medical Center. iter sister, Cherry Brown, 7, was listed in unsatisfactory condition. The missing have been identified as Army Sgt. Robert L. Moore, 40, of nearby Fort Benning, the boat driver; his son, Jarvis, 11; Terrell F. Jackson, 5, son of Juanita Crane of Columbus; Michael McClendon, 12, and his half-brother Vin son Brown, 6, brother of the two girls who were pulled from the river. Rescue workers searched until dark Saturday and all day Sunday and yester day. They recovered pieces of the boat but turned up no trace of the five people. Witnesses told police that the boat got too close to the falls and was swept over, stern first. After it plungesl into the water, only two heads, one supported by a bright orange life preserver, bobbed to the surface, witnesses said. The waterfalls are created by spill ways over old dams on the river. Inmate cuts power to escape from jail VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) An inmate_ electrician escaped under darkness from Fighting rages in '.Beinit' Haig blames Syria for street battles By KATE DORIAN lion's deputy observer to the United Nations, said in New York': Associated Press Writer . the Israelis and Christian Phalangists instigated the fighting..: BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Israeli warplanes streaked over He said the United States encouraged it because the instigators:. Beirut yesterday during the sixth day of fighting between wanted to show him they are "viable allies" for his concept of al: Syrian and Lebanese forces. U.S. Secretary•of State Alexander "strategic consensus" against any Soviet moves in the Mid-',. M. Haig Jr. blamed Syria for the street battles in Beirut and east. . • nearby Zahle and said the ,upsurge in violence could have He also said some American officials "have laid the ground-', :0 "most serious" consequences. work for the assault.". . . The day-long ground fighting slackened at dusk. - • He referred to recent statements by Pkesident Reagan's:: The Lebanese police• department said 169 people have been national security adviser, Richard V. Allen. Allen said Israeli • killed and 500 wounded most of them civilians . in the six raids on Pilestinian bases in southern Lebanon were "hot ' days of fighting. The Lebanese army said four of its soldiers pursuit of a sort and, therefore, justified." „ were killed and 51 wounded. The Syrians did not announce Abdel Rahman said the statement "amounts to a • U.S. - casualties. . . complicity in the murder of civilians and destruction of prop-t 4 9 Haig's first Mideast trip for the Reagan administration has erty in the region." . . been overshadowed by the renewed hostilities and heightened U.N. 'Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was following the. tension over Poland. situation "with increasing anxiety and concern," according to "We view the brutality of the Syrian action against the spokesmen) Rudolf Stajduhar.. Stajduhar added that Uhderae-; Christian enclave as a very, very serious turn of events which is . cretary-General Brian Urguhart was leaving for Beirut Mon-'. unacceptable by any measure of appropriate international day night on a previously scheduled trip and will visit: standards of conduct," Haig said. Jerusalem and Damascus. A senior U.S. official traveling with Haig underscored the. A spokesman here for President Elias Sarkis said Syrian; 4 ' growing spectre of Israeli intervention, saying, "We are right President Hates Assad was dispatching Foreign Minister Abdul: on the brink, in my judgment, of a major outbreak of hostili-. Halim Khaddam to Beirut. The spokesman said Khaddam, ties."architect of Syria's 1976 intervention in the Lebanese civil war, . . Western diplomatic sources in Damascus, the Syrian capi- would arrive Tuesday. tal, expressed fears Israel would strafe the Syrian troops and ' Day-long gunfire across the "Green Line" dividing the '. , armor to break the siege at Zahle. Two Israeli warning flights 'Moslem and Christian sectors of Beirut diminished to intermit- , over the capital drew heavy barrages of anti-aircraft fire from tent sniper shooting by dusk. A spokesman for the rightist; 0 Palestinian guerrilla positions. . . Christian Phalange Party said bitterly that Syrian bombard- A Syrian government official accused the United States of went at Zahle, 30 miles to the east, tapered to a "reasonable one-sidedly. ignoring "Israel's continued aggression in south level" by nightfall. • t Lebanon." Syria has 22,000 troops in Lebanon. They were sent in four', Haig's statement was the first public American criticism of years .ago to police the armistice that ended a 10-month,long; the Syrian role in Lebanon. He made it in Jerusalem before 'civil war between rightist Christian forces and an alliance off , . heading to Amman, Jordan. leftist Moslems and Palestinian guerrillas.t ' S 0 Haig suggested the Soviet Union might be encouraging the Lebanon's leftist Moslem groups called yesterday for a Syrian attacks to divert attention from Poland. He said the nationwide Mobilization to support the Syrians in the "corning: • United States had taken a number of measures to bring about battle of destiny." , "an immediate return to a holding, balanced cease-fire." • Israel supports the Christians because their militias de-: Hasan Abdel Rahman, the Palestine Liberation Organize- mand the removal of Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon. , : •,• • 7 •••••7.7 • •••• • ...•-• .the•. • • ......... ~ ...... •:. ,„...,,. . :••• ... •... ........ ..., .•... . . . • • .• ~. . .. 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Prison officials said Halseth, who regu larly fixed electrical equipment for pris on officials, apparently sabotaged the phone hookup sometime before the es cape so that guards would later send him to the system's basement center to re pair it. While making repairs, he brandished a hammer and overpowered a guard, tying him to a pipe with electrician's tape and stealing his uniform and keys, according to prison spokesman James Kane. • Halseth then went to the power control room, where he overpowered a mainte nance man, also binding him with tape, Kane said. • Tapes show senator involved in Abscam NEW YORK (AP) A co-defendant said Sen. Harrison Williams willingly took instructions from unwitting Abscam codefendants and government opera tives before meeting with a favor-seek ing "Arab sheik," according to tapes played in court yesterday. The 11 audio tapes were introduced by the government to counter defense claims that Williams was coached to say things to the sheik that he didn't mean. When Williams got word from the FBI agent posing as the sheik's frontman that the June 28, 1979 session went smoothly, 00-defendant Alexander Feinberg de scribed Williams as "thrilled to death" and "happy as a kid with a lollipop." The Cherry Hill, N.J., lawyer made the statements in telephone calls and meet ings with convicted confidence man Mel Weinberg between March 23 and July 6, 1979. Weinberg was hired by the FBI to help set up the undercover sting. He has been paid $165,000 so far and has received $45,- 000 for his participation in a book about Abscam. Williams, a Democrat who has rep resented New Jersey in the Senate for 22 years, and Feinberg are accused of brib ery and consrpiracy. Williams' allegedly agreed to take 18 percent interest in a titanium mine in return for using his influence to help the sheik get govern ment contracts. Williams is also accused of assuring the sheik he would introduce an immi gration bill In the shell's behalf. . Lawyers for Williams, 61, are expected to claim their client was entrapped by the government. Weinberg said on cross-examination that be told Williams to "come on strong" in a "coaching" session immedi ately preceding the senator's meeting With the sheik. The statements by Feinberg can be used against Williams provided U.S. Dis trict Judge George Pratt does .not rule there is insufficient evidence, to deter mine that a plot existed. • -•• Interest rates soar, stocks fall 'sharply. NEW YORK (AP) A sudden surge in interest rates drove the stock market. into a sharp decline yesterday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industri:: als fell 12.87 points to 994.24, closing: below 1,000 for the first time in a week. The daily tally on the New York Stock: 4 1 , Exchange showed about four losers forl: every stock that gained ground. - - ; But it was the fixed-income markets: that suffered the heaviest damage as.; open-market rates shot upward. Prices of long-term government bonds which move inversely with intense rates, fell by about $23.75 for every $l,OO in face amount as the bond market snict fered its worst single-day setback in , almost 14 months. Down... 12.87 April 6, 1981 i•i; . UPI wfrepholo Reagan to decrease auto regulations BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL Tuesday, April 7 Talent Show 8 pm Wednesday, April 8 Symposium: Topic Black Perspectives Educational & Intellectual Development Thursday, April 16 Miss Black PSU Pageant 8:00 pm Schwab Auditorium 0 4F347 ,2 r.6v,is, 0500, i, 000),,..0,...0.. , ditystOS Sal. COI 11% tt tssi„li,‘.l:o NO 40. 1 is,e4 OV. 50901, 1%‘,4\40 . a l • ritOS %jib w ) at The Train Station COMMISSARY Junction of Golleg if sower.s Walnut Bldg. By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Halting more than a decade of increased auto.regula lions, the Reagan administration said yesterday it will relax or eliminate 34 pollution and safety rules to help the troubled American auto industry., The move will save manufacturers, who lost $4.3 billion last year, nearly $1.4 billion in capital investment over the next five years, the administration said. Auto and truck buyers would benefit by about $9.3 billion, an average of $l5O per vehicle. "The American automobile industry is in serious trouble," President Reagan said in a statement released at the White House. Administration officials said the industry incurred "unprecedented losses" last year and 180,000 auto work ers are unemployed. "The industry must solve its own prob lems but the government must not unnec essarily hamper its efforts through excessive regulation and interference," Reagan said. The regulations to be eased or elimi nated range from a rule requiring auto bumpers to withstand a 5 mile-per-hour crash to various pollutant emission stan dards for cars and trucks. The adminis tration also wants to eliminate fuel efficiency standards after 1985. liarn Soviets massacring Afghans NEW DELHI, India (AP) Soviet warplanes and artillery massacred Afg han villagers suspected of aiding anti government rebels along two parts of the main road between the Afghan capital of Kabul and the Soviet Union, a Kabul source reported yesterday. The source, whose previous reports have proved accurate, quoted Afghan travelers and survivors as saying the massacres occurred March 17 at the ancient town of Khulm, 180 miles north west of Kabul, and 10 days later in seven villages near Charikar, 50 miles north west of the capital. A local resident was quoted by the source as reporting more than 80 civil ians were killed in one of the seven villages near Charikar, but there was no overall casualty estimate and no esti mate of the number of deaths and inju ries from the Khulm attack. Both reported massacres were de scribed as reprisals against villages accused of helping or harboring the insurgents battling Afghanistan's Marx ist government and the Soviet military forces that entered the rugged, central Asian country in December 1979. There was no independent confirma tion of the attack at Khulm but Western diplomatic sources have mentioned re cent fighting near Charikar, the region where the Kabul source reported mass killings on March 27. Dissident "night letters" circulated clandestinely in Kabul compared the attack on Khulm to the death and de struction wreaked on the area by the Mongol warriors Ghenghis Khan and Tamerlane in the 13th and 14th centu ries, the source's report said. Long-range guns and MiG jets and helicopter gunships from north of the For more than a dozen years, consum er and safety advocates have pushed for stringent pollution controls and safety devices on cars, saying they are needed to save lives and preserve the environ ment. The administration announcement dealt with 17 pollution regulations and 17 auto safety rule. It also asks Congress to change the Clean Air Act that requires all cars by 1984 to meet the same emis sion standards that will apply to cars operated in high-altitude regions such as Denver. The administration said elimination of that requirment would save manufactur ers $3B million and consumers $1.3 billion Wait! Don't Rent Yet. Not until you see our MODELS Heritage Oaks Apartments 10 Vairo Blvd. completely remodeled Efficiency, one, two and three bedroom apartments designed with you in mind. All apartments are newly decorated and. color coordinated with lavish furnishings and luxurious carpet. 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According to the account, Afghan Marxists, Soviets and Afghan army po litical officers announced over loud speakers in Khulm early March 17 that those supporting the Kabul government should gather in the central square. Some obeyed but most stayed indoors or sneaked out to their fields or left the area. One hour later, tens of MiG jets and helicopter gunships bombarded the city while long-range guns shelled it without let-up. Witnesses said all the MiGs and gunships bore Soviet mark ings. The Kabul source said Soviet mass killings later in March in the Charikar area northwest of Kabul were in retalia tion for a rebel raid on a school construc tion site in which 40 Afghan Marxists were slain. The report said seven vil lages were targeted for attacks by trac ing the families of four insurgents killed in the raid. More than 80 civilians were killed and houses were looted at Ghulam Ali village near the Soviet Bagram air base, a local resident was quoted as saying. over the next five years. Among the actions to be taken without congressional involvement are: • Delaying for one year requirements that large cars be equipped by fall with an automatic restraint system, either airbags or automatic seatblets. • Easing emission standards for die sel engines on cars and light trucks. The current . standards to go into effect in 1985 would require new pollutant control equipment, the industry has argued. • Easing pollutant control require ments for heavy duty trucks that would have required manufactuers by 1984 to install catalytic converters similar to those now used in cars. 237-8201
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