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By MAUREEN SANTINI improve airport security and that Athens Inter- to visit Greece following the advisory. They said
Associated Press Writer national Airport now meets international airport the cruise ship business and luxury hotels felt the
security requirements," Redman said. - impact.
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Reagan adminis- He said not specify what the security im- That's a small number compared with the 575,-
tration, citing Greece's "positive actions" to provements were. 000 Americans a year who vacation in Greece,
improve airport security, canceled yesterday its Nikos Skoulas, secretary general of the Nation- but the tourism officials said last week they were
warning to Americans to avoid Athens Interna- al Tourist Organization of Greece, who was concerned a trend was developing.
tional Airport or face a higher than usual risk of traveling in Boston, said he was gratified by the The travel advisory angered Greece, which
hijicking. lifting of the advisory. protested the action in the past several weeks
The travel advisory was imposed June 18 after •He also said last week's inspection of the and urged that the advisory be lifted.
the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 that resulted airport had "vindicated our position that Athens In a letter to Secretary of State George' P.
ultimately in the holding of 39 hostages in Beirut is one of the most secure airports in the world." Shultz two weeks ago, Greek Foreign Minister
and the death of a U.S. Navy man. The hostages "We fully expect tourism from the United loannis Haralambopoulos called the action "un
were released June 30. States to resume normally now that official justified, unfair," and added it "damaged Greek
State Department spokesman Charles Redman clearance has been issued." interests."
announced the lifting of the advisory as a result Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said Security in the airport was so lax before the
of an inspection of the airport by a Federal in a statement that the government would contin- hijacking that several airlines began secondary
Aviation Administration security team last ue to monitor security at Athens and other screening of passengers on their own.
week. international airports. Last week, the Navy banned active duty per
" The team found that the Greek government Greek tourism officials maintained that an sonnel from flying on commerical aircraft in or
has taken positive actions which are ongoing to estimated 12,000 Americans canceled their plans out of Greece.
Steel officials quarrel during strike
By EARL BOHN
AP Business Writer
PITTSBURGH Union mem
bers struck Wheeling-Pittsburgh
Steel Corp. for a second day yester
day, while a bankruptcy judge de
liberated in a dispute between
management and the company's
two largest shareholders over the
conduct of the company's Chapter
11 reorganization.
"My attempts to play any mean
ingful role in Wheeling-Pittsburgh's
affairs are regularly thwarted,"
said Allen E. Paulson, the compa
ny's largest single shareholder and
one of its 11 directors.
Leaders of the United Steelwork
ers of America, whose members
walked out Sunday morning at
plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia, say the rift among
company directors will work to the
union's advantage in bargaining to
determine the level of wage and
benefit concessions needed to save
the company.
Paul Rusen, chief USW negotia
tor, also has said sharholder
Nisshin's management has a great
er appreciation for the employees'
position in their contract dispute
than does Wheeling-Pittsburgh's
managers.
Paulson opposes Wheeling-Pitts
burgh's plan to distribute stock to
satisfy bad debts, saying the action
would dilute his holdings. He wants
the company's lenders to restruc
ture their loans to accommodate
the steelmaker's precarious finan
cial condition.
Nisshin Steel Co. Ltd. of Japan,
the second-largest shareholder, has
sided with Paulson, charging man
agement led by Chairman Dennis J.
Carney with "an attempt to silence
the various groups in this case in
favor of the presentation and domi
nance of only existing manage
ment's position."
Company spokesman Ken Maxcy
declined comment Monday.
Wheeling-Pittsburgh, which filed
for reorganization April 16 when it
became unable to repay loans of
$514 million, won authority last
week to void its labor contract and
moved immediately to impose 18
percent pay cuts for 8,200 current
employees. The union struck at
12:01 a.m. Sunday, the moment the
cuts became effective, saying the
company refused to negotiate on its
demand for labor cost savings,
which stood at $21.40 per hour,
including wages of $11.12 per hour.
Bargaining remained on hold
Monday. Federal mediators who
failed to bring about a settlement in
11th hour talks on Saturday are
expected to call a bargaining ses
sion to order within days if neither
side requests another meeting.
Saying they were not satisfied
with events so far in Wheeling-
Pittsburgh's bankruptcy case,
Paulson and Nisshin recently asked
U.S: Bankruptcy Judge Warren W.
Bentz to appoint a shareholders
committee. Such a group would
have a separate voice in the draft
ing of a reorganization plan.
Paulson, who is chairman of Gulf
stream Aerospace Corp. of Savan
nah, Ga., owns 1.7 million common
shares, or more than 34 percent of
Wheeling-Pittsburgh's outstanding
stock. He has fueded with Carney in
the past.
Nisshin, represented on Wheel
ing-Pittsburth's board by its former
president, Yuzuru Abe, owns more
than 500,000 shares of stock in
Wheeling-Pittsburgh.
At a hearing earlier this month,
company attorneys argued against
a shareholders committee, saying
such a panel would "work against
the interest of the (company), all
creditors and shareholders as each
different committee ... angles for
and advocates for special recogni
tion and treatment."
An attorney for the Securities and
Exchange Commission argued at
length in favor of the committee,
attorney Bela Karlowitz said.
"Mr. Abe and I constitute a mi
nority of only two on the 11-person
board of directors.
Dam casualties
buried in Italy
By JENNIFER PARMELEE
Associated Press Writer
STAVA, Italy A prosecutor
vowed a far-reaching investiga
tion yesterday into the mountain
dam collapse that killed more than
200 people, a "Third World-type"
tragedy he said should never have
happened in Italy.
In a cemetery in Tesero, a town
adjoining this devastated vacation
hamlet in the Dolomite Mountains,
local families buried some of their
dead yesterday evening in a 130-
foot-long common grave.
Thirty-one brown wooden cof
fins, each with a bronze cross,
most with lilies or roses taped to
them, and two small, white coffins
of children were lined up in two
rows in the mass burial. About 2,-
000 mourners gathered on the hill
side.
"This is one of the saddest days
for our region as we lay down our
33 brothers and sisters here
among our prayers and flowers,"
said the Rev. Giovanni Conci, who
officiated at a requiem Mass at the
medieval San Leonardo church.
Other funerals will be held this
week for victims who lived in the
valley, as well as throughout Italy
for vacationers who had come to
the alpine spot for peace and quiet.
Another funeral is scheduled for
later this week in Tesero for un
identified victims.
As the mourners wept and a
choir sang hymns, trucks labored
down the valley roads, carrying
away some of the tons of mud that
buried the resort.
Soldiers and volunteers, digging
through sticky mud in Stava's
valley, recovered 199 bodies by
yesterday, 52 of them still uniden
tified. With little hope left for
finding more survivors, civil de
fense officials estimated the even-
Berri attempts to
unify Lebanon
By MONA ZIADE
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon Shiite
Moslem leader Nabih Berri, bent
on ousting Christian Amin Gem
ayel from the Lebanese presiden
cy, said yesterday that Syria will
sponsor a meeting next month to
try to unite Lebanon's feuding
Moslem factions.
In central Beirut, gunbattles
flared anew between Christians
and Moslems, and between Leb
anese and Palestinians.
One combatant was killed late
Sunday and 10 others were
wounded in clashes between Ber
ri's Shiite Amal militia and Pales
tinian guerrillas in the Chatilla
refugee camp.
Christian and Moslem mili
tiamen hurled grenades at each
other across the Green Line that
bisects the city into Moslem and
Christian sectors, sparking a
three-hour mortar duel, a police
statement said. It said two civil
ians were killed and six others
wounded.
In May and June, the Shiites and
Palestinians had fought for five
weeks for control of the Beirut
Steelworkers man the picketline outside Wheeiing•Pittsburgh Steel Corp.
In Monessen Pa. About 8,200 workers walked off the Job for the second day
In a row yesterday.
The Daily Collegian
Tuesday, July 23, 1985
tual death toll at 217, all believed
to have been Italians.
Prosecutor Francesco Simeoni
told a news conference in Trento
he had signed some 50 judicial
notices notifying public officials
and others involved in the con
struction and maintenance of the
dam that they are under investiga
tion for possible criminal neg
ligence.
Asked how many notices will be
issued, he said: "I will be signing
more. ... I can't tell how many
right now."
Among those receiving the no
tices were Tesero Mayor Adriano
Jellici and his three immediate
predecessors, judicial sources re
ported.
"This is not India or some Third
World country. ... This is a civi
lized country and a disaster like
this should never have happened,"
Simeoni said.
President Francesco Cossiga,
touring the disaster area Sunday,
said the government would ensure
that the investigation into possible
negligence is carried out vigorous
ly.
The dam break at midday Fri
day unleashed a torrent of dirt,
water and debris into this northern
Italian village, flattening three
hotels and Stava's 20 houses. Offi
cials provisionally put the.damage
at more than $4.5 million.
Sanitation authorities have or
dered area residents to drink only
boiled or bottled water as a pre
caution against the spread of dis
ease.
Government engineers yester
day began inspecting the area,
trying to determine whether neg
ligence caused the collapse of the
earthen dam, which held in place
two artificial lakes used in mining
operations.
refugee camps. Syria arranged a
cease-fire June 18, but it has since
been violated frequently. Chris
tian-Moslem fighting along the
dividing line also has escalated in
the past few days.
Syria, main power broker in
Lebanon, has sought to resolve
intra-Moslem feuds in preparation
for an overall settlement of Leb
anon's decade-old civil war. Last
week, Damascus sent six military
officers here to help enforce a
security plan to end lawlessness in
the western, Moslem half of the
capital.
The plan called for an end to
militia control of west Beirut and
is supposed to be extended even
tually to the city's mostly Chris
tian eastern half. But so far it has
failed to bring the various militia
factions to totally withdraw their
gunmen from the streets.
Berri, who arrived from the
Syrian capital of Damascus over
the weekend after a two-week visit
with his l Syrian allies, said a meet
ing of Lebanon's Islamic groups
would be held in early August in
east Lebanon's Syrian-controlled
town of Chtaura.
Springsteen in Philly sold-out
PHILADELPHIA (AP) All 110,000 tickets for rock singer
Bruce Springsteen's two concerts Aug. 14-15 at Veterans Stadium
were sold within six hours yesterday, a spokeswoman for the
promoter said.
Juli Hittner of Electric Factory Concerts said the $17.50 tickets
were sold by 4 p.m. through phone orders, at Ticketron outlets
and at the stadium.
Fans started camping out at ticket locations as early as
Saturday, and 4,000 were in line at Veterans Stadium when tickets
went on sale at 10 a.m.
In Pittsburgh, where Springsteen is scheduled to perform Aug.
11 at Three Rivers Stadium, tickets go on sale this morning at 10
a.m. at National Record Marts and Oasis record stores. Fans
began lining up yesterday.
More than 60,000 tickets will be sold at $17.50 apiece, with a limit
of eight per person, according to DiCesare-Engler Productions
Inc.
nation news briefs
Alaska Gov. may be impeached
JUNEAU; Alaska (AP) The Alaska Legislature opened a
historic hearing yesterdayinto whether Gov. Bill Sheffield should
be impeached for allegedly steering a lucrative state lease to a
political crony and lying to a grand jury. The governor said he
was looking forward to telling his side.
"The governor, very readily, is going to testify" later this week
before the Senate Rules Committee, said Bob Miller, a Sheffield
spokesman.
The political drama, which began July 2 with the release of a
grand jury inquiry into the way a $9.1 million state office lease
was negotiated, is being carried live on television from the state's
biggest cities to Eskimo villages.
It is the first impeachment proceeding in the state's 26-year
history.
Both sides hired a battery of lawyers, including several who
played roles in the Watergate investigation and impeachment
proceedings that led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
Hearings before the Senate Rules Committee are expected to
last from three weeks to a month.
Churchgoers attacked with pipes
LEE, Maine (AP) State troopers were dispatched to this tiny
. northeastern Maine town yesterday, one day after fundamental
ist churchgoers were attacked by townspeople wielding pipes and
chains in a display of violence that some said might be repeated.
"I will never rule it out," said John W. Crooker, 43, who barged
into the Lee Baptist Church with at least six. other men Sunday
evening, setting off a fracas over the custody of his teen-age
daughter that left several people injured. Crooker said he was not
armed.
Debbie Dunphy, the wife of pastor Daniel Dunphy, agreed
another confrontation waa possible "if anything isn't done about
what's happening." Her husband spent the day with his lawyer in
Bangor and was not available for comment.
Attorney General James E. Tierney said in Augusta that
additional state troopers had been assigned to the Lee area at his
request.
"Violence against any Maine citizen will not be tolerated,"
Tierney said.
No one was arrested.
Townspeople agreed the incident stemmed from a dispute
between Dunphy and Crooker, who is trying to get his 16-year-old
daughter, Sheila, out of what he calls a "cult."
Reagan meets Chinese president
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) President Reagan, in his first
meeting with a foreign leader since undergoing cancer surgery,
hosts Chinese President Li Xiannian today for abbreviated talks
and ceremonies that could provide the setting for the formal
approval of a landmark nuclear cooperation pact.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan, who is
recovering from the major abdominal surgery 10 days ago,
planned to greet the 76-year-old Chinese leader in a South Lawn
ceremony as well as host a shortened, formal state banquet
tonight.
"The president looks forward to his meeting with President Li
and to the further expansion of the high-level dialogue on major
substantive issues which he began ... during his visit to China last
year," Speakes said.
Asked whether the two leaders would sign a nuclear cooper
ation agreement during the visit, Speakes said "some recommen
dations" were in the White House, but that the matter was still
under review.
The spokesman said the pact was being studied by several
government agencies to see if it complied with U.S. law involving
the transfer of materials used in the manufacture of nuclear
power plants.
world news briefs
Israel gives killers life in prison
JERUSALEM (AP) A court yesterday sentenced three
members of an underground Jewish gang to life in prison for
killing three Palestinians, and 12 others to lesser terms for
attacks on Arabs in the occupied West Bank.
The defendants, most of whom are Jewish settlers, claimed
they acted in self defense and said they would appeal for
presidential pardons. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of
the conservative Likud bloc, has recommended clemency and an
opinion poll indicated most Israelis favor it.
Defendants, their families and supporters responded with
defiant shouts and songs when the sentences were pronounced in
the heavily guarded courtroom.
Announcement of the sentences by the three-judge court ended
a 13-month trial that brought into question the government's
security policies in the West Bank of the Jordan River, which
Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
The three defendants sentenced to life were convicted July 10 of
killing three Palestinian students and wounding 33 in a 1983
shooting spree at Islamic University in Hebron, south of Jerusa
lem.
Mexico conservatives lose ground
MEXICO CITY (AP) The conservative National Action
Party lost 18 of its 50 congressional seats of the 100 reserved for
minority parties while three small parties gained representation,
according to results from the July 7 elections.
Under the constitution, 100 of the 400 seats in the lower house of
Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, are reserved for minority
parties and allocated according to the percentage of the vote they
received.
The other 300 are determined by direct election and the long
ruling Insitutional Revolutionary Party PRI won 292. The
National Action Party, or PAN, won six and the Authentic Party
of the Mexican Revolution two.
Results for the 100 reserved seats were announced Sunday
night, and show that eight parties will be represented.
They gave PAN, Which had held 50 seats, 32; 12 each to the
communist-led Mexican United Socialist Party, the Socialist
Labor Party, and the conservative Mexican Democratic Party;
11 to the Popular Socialist Party, nine to the Authentic Party of
the Mexican Revolution, and six each to the Mexican Workers
Party and the Revolutionary Workers Party.
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