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Coal strike negotiations collansp
WASHINGTON (AP) - Contract talks in
he increasingly bitter 54-day coal strike cof
apsed again Sunday after the United Mine
Workers (UMW) union rejected the
industry s latest settlement proposal.
Delicate efforts to put together a settle
ment fell apart when union and manage
ment negotiators were unable to narrow
their differences over wages and other
economic issues.
A spokesman for the Bituminous Coal
Operators Association, the industry's major
bargaining group, issued a statement
saying that talks had “recessed indefi
nitely.”
The strike by 160,000 UMW members
already was close to the longest walkout in
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Walkout nears 59-day record
he history of the union's relationship with
the coal operators association. The longest
previous strike was in 1946, and lasted 59
days
In its statement, the industry said it of
fered the union a contract substantially
better than settlements reached in any
major industry in America."
The union rejected the proposal and
made a counter-proposal to which the in
dustry did not respond, according to
sources familiar with the negotiations.
The stumbling block was money," a
source said. The company thought the
union's demand was out of sight.
Along with wage increases clearly
higher than those granted in other indus
tries/' the association said, it offered to
guarantee all health benefits, restore the
UMW s health and pension funds and 1 pro
vide a contract right to deal fairly on both
sides with wildcat strikes."
Despite this offer, the UMW negotiators
refused to move significantly from their in
credibly high demands," the industry said.
With UMW President Arnold Miller and
other top union officers scheduled to attend
a union rally in Pittsburgh Sunday, the coal
association said it decided to call off the
negotiations.
Under all these circumstances, we can
only conclude that after 54 days of strike
the union is not interested in settlement on
any responsible basis, the management
negotiators said.
Union officials were not immediately av
ailable for comment.
Although the strike has stopped only
about half of the nation's coal production, it
is beginning to have a growing impact,
especially in the Appalachian states where
electric utility companies are reporting di
minished coal stockpiles.
world at a glance
From Associated Press reports
African leader stresses unity
Zulu ChiPf^Sch °nh^f?Ca~ StressinQ un'ty and self-reliance,
del th^hG B“thelezi told a throng of 10,000 blacks Sun
havfe reached the crossroads" in the fight for racial
equality in white-ruled South Africa.
tnlH Ihe l6ader °f ,he 5 5 million Zulus-the country's largest tribe
told the roaring crowd who packed a football stadium9
r-nnnIe owe 'V0 the foundin9 fathers of the African National
some eJLn°WHbannedl and their successors, some deceased,
^ ^ l S°)n?e ,ncarcerated, to uphold the tradition of this
titanic struggle for liberation.”
tho ®uthelez!; the most vociferous government critic within
the country who has not been jailed, attracted what appeared to
be the largest black audience ever at political rally in Soweto.
Schlesinger raps satellites
said SunH^IN?T°N ~ Energy Secretary James Schlesinger
SorsTo mS°hPr,a,e ,0r Sa,e"iteS °°n,aininS ™*ar
But he said he didnJt know whether nuclear- equipped satel
on thCXlet banne" feCtiV6,y Schlesinger waTcoTmentg
nudear reactor aboa^ *** fe"fr0m ^ Tuesday with a
He was asked whether the United States should push for an
agreement with the Soviet Union to prohibit nations from sending
up nuclear reactors with their earth-orbiting vehicles. 9
n;mmLnt0UfldoPrffGr 1° leave that Particular question to the De
partment of State, he replied. “But there are serious hazards
theeadhard ^ 'nappropriate to have nudeaf reactors orbiting
Hotel fire dead reaches 12
., KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Workers poking through the debris of
he f're-gutted Coates House hotel in near-zero tempefatures
ound three more bodies Sunday, raising the death toll to 12
Crt,,«?n y a" ,ce;coated shell remained of the landmark hotel's
south wing Sunday as the workers, aided by a Caterpillar and a
large crane, dug through the rubble. Smoldering S on the
^ onhrSePh«Ueredfiremen,r°mimmedia,el''e*ami"'
Blizzards, flash floods
sweep through Europe
LONDON (AP) — severe
storms swept through parts of
Europe over the weekend, bring
ing blizzards to northern Scotland,
snow to the Italian Riviera and
flash flooding to Venice and other
Italian communities.
Officials said seven people
were killed in Italy, two men
drowned in British waters and 27
sailors from the Spanish fishing
trawler Marbel were reported mis
sing off the Spanish coast.
At an Italian Alps resort at Pes
cegalla, the cook and the owner of
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a hotel were killed when a wall of
snow crashed into the building.
Officials said a major disaster was
averted because the hotel’s
usual weekend visitors were kept
away by a heavy snowfall the pre
vious day.
Three persons crossing a
bridge over the River Marecchia
at Pesaro were presumed
drowned when the bridge col
lapsed in a storm plunging their
car into the river. On Saturday of
ficials reported that a motorist and
a snowtractor driver died in sepa
rate snowslides.
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Israeli, Egyptian defense heads
expected to resume Cairo talks
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel de
cided Sunday to resume military
talks with Egypt, giving a new
push to Middle East peace
negotiations following a cooling of
the public war of words between
the two countries and intensive
backstage U.S. diplomatic efforts.
The military talks in Cairo bet
ween defense ministers are ex
pected to resume early this week.
But there was no indication after
Sunday's regular Israeli cabinet
meeting when the parallel political
negotiations in Jerusalem might
resume.
‘Whiskey sour please
easy on the hijacker’
WILMINGTON N.C. (AP) — An airline flight attendant who threw a
whiskey sogr in a hijackers face, enabling other crew members to
overpower him, said Sunday, "It wasn't courageous. I was just scared
and I wanted to end the entire incident.
e. YA°JUJ^USt have to do what you do in times of emergency," said
Steve Addona, a 5-foot-6-inch, 120-pound flight attendant for Piedmont
Aviation of his action aboard Flight 964 Saturday night. "Nobody
wanted to come out a hero.”
Stunned by the drink, the hijacker, who said he*had a gun and
wanted to go to Havana, Cuba, was wrestled to the ground by crewmen
after the plane had passed Wilmington and was headed south.
“That is up to Egypt," cabinet
secretary Aryeh Naor said after
the three and a half hour session.
"It wasn't Israel that broke off the
talks."
Israeli officials said, however,
that agreement is possible as
early as this week — before Egyp
tian Pres. Anwar Sadat confers
with Pres. Jimmy Carter in
Washington — on a joint "declara
tion of principles" to outline future
negotiations.
Agreement on the declaration
would be the first breakthrough
since Sadat s trip to Jerusalem in
November created the first real
peace negotiations in the 30-year
conflict.
But Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel has
taken a more pessimistic line, say
ing agreement on the declaration
should not be expected even dur
ing Sadat’s U S. trip.
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