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Carter forces strikers back to mines WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Carter, de claring the country “cannot afford to wait any longer” for a coal strike settlement, in voked the Taft-Hartley Act Monday in an effort to force miners back to work. Mine owners hoped imposition of the Taft-Hartley Act would work. United Mine Workers Pres. Arnold Miller had said earlier he didn't like it but would go along with it. And initial reaction from the miners was mixed. Carter asserted that negotiations be tween the striking United Mine Workers union and the coal industry were at an im passe. Griffin cranks up Taft-Hartley He said he was directing Attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell to make preparations for seeking an 80-day back-to-work order under terms of the Taft-Hartley Act. Officials said they hoped to make a for mal request for a back-to-work order by Thursday. The strike by some 160,000 UMW mem bers, which enters its fourth month Tues day, has forced power curtailments and re sultant job layoffs in the Midwest and is threatening to inflict further harm on the economy. Carter announced creation of a three member board of inquiry, as required under the Taft-Hartley Act, and the panel made plans to hold a public hearing on the strike Wednesday. Board Chairman John Gentry, a Washington lawyer and former deputy as sistant secretary of Labor, said about 5,600 Mailgrams had been sent to union and in dustry officials as well as other interested parties, inviting them to appear at the hear ing Gentry noted that under the law the board must prepare a report for the president be fore the government can go to court. Carter said he expected the board to issue its re port quickly. Besides Gentry, Eva Robins, a New York ( arbitrator and Carl Warns, a professor at the University of Louisville, are serving on the board. In another development, Armv staff offi cers were reviewing a civil disturbance con trol plan, but Pentagon officials said federal troops would be used in the coal strike crisis only as a very last resort. r World at a glance-N From Associated Press reports Carter woos Yugoslavia’s Tito WASHINGTON — Pres. Tito of Yugoslavia, the longest serv ing head of government in the world, flew here Monday for a three-day official visit. Six American presidents have come and gone since Tito’s dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948 and all have consi dered preservation of Yugoslavia’s independence and territorial integrity to be a vital American interest. Apparently concerned about a possible Soviet effort to return Yugoslavia to Moscow’s camp, the Carter administration has been discussing a "modest expansion" of U.S. military sales with Yugoslav officials. Marston returns to politics PHILADELPHIA — David Marston, the Republican U.S. at torney whose ouster by the Carter administration became a na tional issue, announced today he is a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. The 35-year-old lawyer said he would seek the Republican nomination in the May 16 primary. California begins dig LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeowners salvaged what they could Monday on the Southern California coast and the Baja Peninsula of Mexico after a disastrous weekend storm killed at least 45 persons, left thousands homeless and caused millions of dollars in damages. South of the border, U.S. Coast Guard helicopters airlifted many Mexicans to safety, including 80 children taken from a Tijuana orphanage to an Ensenada army barracks. V Hua claims Taiwan issue hinders U.S.-China ties TOKYO (AP) — Hua Kuo-feng, newly confirmed as China’s su preme leader, has told the na tional parliament in Peking that the American attitude on the Taiwan issue remains the chief obstacle to establishing full U.S.-Chinese diplomatic rela tions. Hsinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said in a dispatch received here Monday that Hua also outlined to the fifth National People’s Congress an intensive 10-year plan for modernizing China’s "backward” basic indus tries. Hua made his three and a half hour report last week, but only brief excerpts had been released previously. The Congress, meeting for the first time in three years, renamed Hua as China's premier, a post he will continue to hold concurrently with the chairmanship of the Communist Party. Chairman-Premier Hua reiter ated China’s long-held position uourt rules on Indian law OLYMPIA (AP) — A high court ruling that non-Indians cannot be prosecuted for breaking Indian laws could lead to lawlessness on the nation’s reservations, an In dian spokesman said Monday. Reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court bombshell ranged from jubi lation to a warning by Indian spokesman Bob Johnson that it means "If the Ku Klux Klan wanted to go onto a reservation and burn crosses, the Indians would have no power to stop them.'’ Washington Attorney General Slade Gorton said the ruling will have nationwide impact. Up to 50,000 non-Indians live on reser vations in Washington state and will be directly affected, he said. The high court overturned an appeals court decision that the Suquamish Indians could arrest and try non-Indians who live on its Kitsap Peninsula reservation at Port Madison on the Kitsap Peninsula. that Washington must break its diplomatic links with Nationalist Taiwan, scrap its defense treaty and withdraw its remaining troops from the island, Hsinhua reported. China “will surely liberate Taiwan but how and when it does so is the domestic affair of China,” Hua said. Radio Peking, moni tored in Tokyo, said Hua also warned of the potential for war be tween the Soviet Union and the United States and declared, “The Soviet revisionists are bent on subjugating our country.” He urged the Chinese to em bark on “a race against time” to strengthen themselves economi cally and militarily against possi ble Soviet or American aggres sion, the broadcast said. Hua has pledged to transform China into a modern industrial country by the year 2000. His report spelled out details of this new na tional effort and he predicted in dustrial output would increase by 10 percent annually and agricul tural production by four to five per cent in each of the next eight years. Born-again’ Flynt wounded LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Larry Flynt, the 34-year-old head of a pornography empire who recently declared that he had found God, was shot in the stomach and critically wounded Monday outside a courthouse where he was being tried on ob scenity charges. Herald Fahringer, an attorney for the owner of Hustler magazine, said the gunman jumped into a car and sped off after the attack in this town 30 miles northeast of At lanta. ■PORTLAND International FilmTteatival 70 Films From 20 Countries MARCH 17-APRIL6 Movie House Northwest Film Study Center Cinema 21 See the Sunday March 12 Oregonian for complete festival program Final Winter Clearance Sale through Sat. only All Wood Skis 50% off! 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