Dateline Prosecutors try to reopen case against Demjanjuk Page 5 Vol. 94, No. 30 12 Pages ©1993 Collegian Inc University, Teamsters reach tentative accord By RAMIT PLUSHNICK Collegian Staff Writer The University and Teamsters Union Local 8 arrived at a tentative agreement calling for salary increases ranging from 4 to 3.5 percent during a three-year peri od. Union members will vote on the pro posed contract and votes will be tallied on Aug. 18, said Greg Sampsell, Teamsters president and business agent. Union offi cials went to the negotiating table with proposals for higher salary increases than what is in the proposed contract, Sampsell said. He refused to give an exact amount Israelis following cease-fire By MOHAMMED SALAM Associated Press Writer NABATIYEH, Lebanon Tens of thousands of refugees began returning to ruined villages yes terday as Israeli tanks withdrew from south Lebanon following a U.S.- brokered cease-fire. The truce, which took effect Saturday, ended a week-long Israeli blitz that police said killed 140 people, wounded at least 496 and sent 500,000 people fleeing north. Israeli warplanes, gunboats and artillery had bombarded a broad swath of south Lebanon in the largest and bloodiest offensive since Israel invaded 11 years ago. The offen sive followed a rash of rocket attacks by Shiite Muslim and Palestinian guerrillas against Israel's self-styled "security zone" in south Lebanon. Late yesterday, the Lebanese government agreed to deploy troops in southern Lebanon to hinder guerrilla activity. The only mili tary presence in that part of the country now is the 5,800-member U.N. peacekeeping force. Guerrillas have been able to flourish in the absence of regular troops. Information Minister Michel Samaha said top government offi cials would start talks with the United Nations about such deployments. Yesterday, Lebanese army troops moved into villages formerly con trolled by Hezbollah, set up checkpoints, searched militiamen for weapons and began confiscating Katyushas rockets, said an officer who spoke on condition of ano nymity. But Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told reporters in Beirut that "no one has asked us to give up our weapons." Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin backed up the sheik's statement, saying on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley" Sun day that Lebanon had taken heavy weapons from a number of mili tias, but not from Hezbollah. Nine hours after the cease-fire began, gw_rrillas fired mortars and assault rifles at an outpost near the zone manned by Israel's surrogate Deficit reduction may be smaller due to changes in gasoline tax By JIM LUTHER AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. When congressional budget negotiators accepted the smallest gasoline-tax increase on their options list, they did more than save the average motorist a few pennies a week. Their decision dictated an even tighter squeeze on Medicare reimbursements, a less generous expansion of federal benefits for low income working families and less of a tax incentive for small business es to buy machinery and create jobs. The decision almost certainly will mean the Democratic Congress and President Clinton will fall short slightly, to be sure —of their goal of reducing the federal budget deficit by $5OO billion over the next five years. That provides a clear open ing to Republicans, who are sitting Please see TAX, Page 12. or comment on if the settlement was lower than expected. "We never get what we want and nei ther does the University," Sampsell said. George Schimmel, Office of Physical Plant director of maintenance and operations, and James Elliott, University director of human resources, refused to comment on the proposed contract until after union mem bers vote. The union represents about 1,800 mem bers at University Park and 2,600 Uni versity-wide. The last contract called for a 5 percent salary increase during the third year, Sampsell said, blaming the smaller salary exit Lebanon South Lebanon Army. SLA mili tiamen returned fire, but there were no reports of casualties, security sources said. They said the skirmish was not a serious breach of the cease-fire, which was negotiated by Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Please see LEBANON, Page 12. Christopher aims for Mideast peace By DONALD M. ROTHBERG AP Diplomatic Writer SHANNON, Ireland Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to the Middle East yesterday to try to revive a peace process that aides conceded suffered a severe set back from the fighting in Southern Lebanon. "There clearly has been a sour ing of the overall atmosphere," a senior State Department official told reporters on Christopher's plane. The official, who was closely involved in the peace process, spoke only on condition of anonymity. He said Christopher's goal on this trip was to "refocus the parties on the issues." The secretary of state played a key role this past week in negotiating an end to a week of furious exchanges between Israeli forces in southern Lebanon and Iranian-backed Hez bollah guerrillas. Hezbollah, which opposes the continuing negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, escalated guerrilla attacks on Israeli soldiers in Israel's self-proclaimed security zone Israel in Lebanon. The Israelis retaliated with a week-long series of artillery and air attacks that drove thousands of Lebanese out of the area and into Beirut. Christopher dealt by telephone with officials in Israel, Syria and Leb anon and brokered an agreement under which the rocket attacks stopped and Israel halted its strikes. He said the fighting in Lebanon was an example of how fragile the quest for peace remained in the region. I Sports Weather .... . t., . .v. . . ~... .. Today, partial sunshine and ' '' Reg-gie Ito warm, a scattered afternoon thunderstorm is possible, high 85. tak jar ,„, Al i Mr. October is enshrined in the Baseball Tonight, partly cloudy, still the risk As Au „... . As of a shower, low 65. Tomorrow, e 4 • tal , ...-_, --,• , i ,-,: " Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. , —Page 8 some sun, high 82. —by Steven Hoffert A' IN 30° d th ly e C ollegian Monday, Aug. 2, 1993 increase on a troubled economy "The economy is in a total decline of full time employees," Sampsell said. He added that due to the poor economy, the Uni versity has less students which results in less revenue. But aside from salary increases being lower, the amount of money employees pay for benefits is increasing, including health benefits, according to the Teamsters' proposed contract. "It's a matter of nationally what health care has been going through," Sampsell said. "It's in turmoil." It was expected that there would be an increase in benefit costs, Sampsell said. But Fun with flowers Kara Johnston, 10, of Gettysburg, looks through flowers in the round the Flower Gardens on Park Avenue. Johnston was at the gardens bed "Herb Garden" with Kathy Shumac, research technologist at last week with her mother working on a 4-H project. Gumby's Pizza employee shot during robbery By JENNIFER HALL Collegian Staff Writer An employee of Gumby's Pizza, 300 S. Pugh St., was shot yesterday morning during an armed robbery, the State College Police Department said. Michael McCollim, 25, a store manager, was shot after a man entered the pizza shop while McCollim was opening the store about 9:30 a.m. yesterday, said Adam Silverstein, McCollim's roommate. Silverstein said he saw McCollim in the emergency room of Centre Community Hospi tal shortly after the incident. The bullet went the entire way through McCollim's right shoulder, he said, but McCollim was able to call 911 for help. Vit "The way I understand it, Mike had given (the gunman) all of the money." "He's OK. He should be coming home tomorrow," Silverstein said. Hospital officials would not release any information on McCollim's condition. The gunman forced McCollim into the store's back room at gunpoint and demanded McCollim remove money from the safe, police said. the increase was higher than union offi cials expected. For union members who are covered under the Health Pass plan the increase will be $7.38 per biweekly pay for the first year, $8.31 the second year and $10.16 the third year, according to the contract. Union members covered under the Health Maintenance Organization option will not have an increase the first year. But the second year the increase will be $5.54 and the third year it will be $6.46 per biweekly pay. For union members covered under Plan A health care, fees will increase $ll.OB the first year, $l2 the second year and $15.69 the third Adam Silverstein victim's roommate U.S. officers speculate on military force in Bosnia By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER AP Military Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. Should President Clinton and the allies agree to use air power to break the siege of Sarajevo, military officers can dust off war plans they've shelved for months as diplomats haggled over the fate of the crumbling region. Although many top military officers say they hope the current specu lation about the use of force may lead to further progress at the nego tiating table in Geneva, NATO is standing by with a wide array of combat equipment in the region should such talks fail. Political leaders of the warring factions in Bosnia reached general agreement Friday on a plan to partition the former Yugoslav republic into three ethnic regions. Negotiations are continuing on the specific boundaries and govern mental structure. In the meantime, NATO officials planned to meet today, at U.S. Published independently by students at Penn State year, according to the contract. Dental and vision care will increase the same for all union members. Dental will increase 70 cents the first year, 87 cents the second year and $1.07 the third year, according to the contract. Vision will increase 14 cents every year. For one Teamster member, who wished to remain anonymous, the salary increase was higher than expected, but the increase in benefit payment is disappointing. "I would rather have less of a salary increase if our benefits wouldn't have gone up," the Teamster said. "Once the benefits Please see CONTRACT, Page 12. "The way I understand it, Mike had given (the gunman) all of the money," Silverstein said. Police said the gun was fired during a struggle between the two men. The gunman then took the money and ran out of the store, police said. McCollim may have tried to get the gun, Sil verstein said, adding McCollim had been a victim of an attack about a year ago when he worked at a State College Uni-Mart. The gunman is described as a white man, 5 feet 11 inches tall, who is in his mid-20s. He has collar length, wavy brown hair and about two days' growth of facial hair. He was wearing a brown T-shirt and jeans. Police are asking anyone who may have seen someone fitting that description in the area of the pizza shop yesterday morning to call the department at 234-7150. request, to discuss the use of air power in Bosnia. In the past, the Pentagon and NATO allies assessed the possibility of air strikes within Bosnia that could hit key bridges, railroads and military storage areas. But if the allies prefer a more limited strike, the first targets most probably would include the dozens of heavy artillery place ments that have pounded the citi zens of Sarajevo for months. Much intelligence has been gar nered by the months-long "Deny Flight" operations that have flown over the region since April. The goal of the NATO operation is to sup press unauthorized flights in the Bosnian "no fly" zone. Since the Bosnian Serbs have had little reason to fear attacks, they have left much weaponry in the open and vulnerable to precision air strikes, said military officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Navy F-A-18 attack planes and A-6 bombers on board the aircraft Please see FORCE, Page 12.
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