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Nurses approve
new contract
SPRINGFIELD
Nurses at McKenzie-Wil
lamette Hospital approved a
contract offer Wednesday in
voting to end the longest
nurses strike in Oregon history
Burton White of the Oregon
Nurses' Association said the
pact approved overwhelmingly
provides 114 percent pay
raises retroactive to July 4 and a
9 percent boost next year
The nurses will be back to
work Monday or Tuesday, White
said
About 150 nurses went on
strike July 14. and the hospital
has operated at reduced
capacity since that time
The pact brings starting pay
to $8 26 an hour
Sadat assassins
‘isolated group’
CAIRO, Egypt
Egypt said Wednesday that
an "isolated" group of four sol
diers including a Moslem fanatic
assassinated Pres Anwar
Sadat, and the government
quickly scheduled a referendum
next week to approve Vice Pre
sident Hosm Mubarak as
Sadat s successor
Parliament held an emer
gency session to overwhelm
ingly endorse the nomination
that Egypt's ruling party gave
Mubarak within hours of Sadat's
assassination Tuesday
The Parliament's action
meant Mubarak's name will be
the only one on the ballot Oct
13 The date falls within Egypt's
60-day constitutional limit
Defense Minister Abdel Halim
Abu Ghazala told reporters dur
ing a break in the parliamentary
session that Sadat's assassins
were not part of a coup plot but
were "an individual group and
they are not even related to any
group or country "
Haig warns
Arab nations
WASHINGTON
The Reagan administration
warned Libya and other radical
Arab nations on Wednesday
that it "would view with great
concern" any attempt to seize
upon Pres Anwar Sadat’s as
sassination to meddle with
Egypt or otherwise fan instabili
ty in the Mideast
Secretary of State Alexander
Haig declared also that America
remains a full partner in the
peace process initiated by
Sadat, “this gigantic personali
ty," and is committed to “pur
sue his work” toward a com
prehensive Middle East sett
lement
Haig pledged full support to
the Egyptian government now
headed by Hosni Mubarak,
Sadat's hand-picked heir
Meanwhile, the Defense
Department continued its order
of late Tuesday calling for
boosted readiness of the U S
Rapid Deployment Force and
American warships in the Medi
terranean
ABC wins
ratings war
NEW YORK
ABC wrapped up the 1980-81
TV year by finishing first in the
weekly ratings competition,
thanks largely to “Hart to Hart”
and "Three s Company," the
week's most-watched pro
grams, figures from the A C
Nielsen Co showed
CBS had seven shows among
the 10 highest-rated, but it
wasn't enough to overcome
ABC's quick start CBS had won
the three-way competition 38
times in the 55-week period —
the recently completed TV year
was stretched a bit by labor
problems in Hollywood
It was ABC's third straight
finish in the No 1 spot, and the
network's 10th of the year NBC
finished first five times, and ABC
and CBS tied for the top position
twice
Bill limits
chemical use
WASHINGTON
Eight Pacific Northwest con
gressmen are backing a bill
aimed at getting berry growers
out of the chemical business
and local youngsters back to
berry picking
The bill sponsored by Rep
Norman Dicks, D-Wash , would
transfer the responsibility for
determining the toxicity of
agricultural chemicals and pes
ticides used on the crops from
berry growers to the Environ
mental Protection Agency
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Solidarity calls
for price freeze
GDANSK, Poland
Solidarity’s congress called
for a freeze on prices
Wednesday and threatened to
stage a token nationwide strike
if the Communist government
does not comply
The resolution, in response to
Monday's sudden doubling of
cigarette prices, was adopted
after the congress passed a
34-point social and economic
program aimed at giving
workers more say in the opera
tion of state-run enterprises
Delegates also voted to hold a
"people’s” tribunal of former
government officials blamed for
Poland s "downfall” if Com
munist authorities do not pro
secute them this year
House panel
rejects AWACs
WASHINGTON
While a House panel voted to
reject his $8 5 billion arms sale
to Saudi Arabia, Pres Reagan
pressed the Senate's Repub
lican majority with some suc
cess on Wednesday to reverse
the congressional tide against
the deal
"I need you, the country and
the world need you on this
decision,” the president was
quoted as telling 43 Republican
senators at a White House
meeting that coincided with the
28-8 recommendation by the
House Foreign Affairs commit
tee to cancel the transaction.
After hearing Reagan's ap
peal, Sen Alan Simpson of
Wyoming, switched from the
opposition ranks to support of
the sale The president won a
similar turnaround from Sen.
Orrin Hatch of Utah a day ear
lier.
In addition, six previously un
committed senators declared
Wednesday they would back the
president. All had been con
sidered likely to take that posi
tion.
Airlines chop
ticket prices
NEW YORK
American and Trans World
airlines cut fares on their bu
siest routes Wednesday, joining
United in a price war that runs
counter to usual autumn trends
and defies predictions of higher
fares during the air controllers
strike
American and TWA an
nounced similar price cuts to
defend their shares of the
transcontinental and midcon
tinental markets against United,
which ignited the latest round of
cuts Tuesday.
United lowered coach fares
on all its coast-to-coast routes,
including the heavily traveled
New York-Los Angeles and New
York-San Francisco routes. The
new fare is $438 roundtrip,
down from the previous $600
from fJew York and $650 from
most other cities
United also reduced its
roundtrip coach fares from
Chicago and several other Mid
west cities to California to $318,
compared with the previous
$734 to Los Angeles and $736 to
San Francisco. Midcontinenta!
fares to the Pacific Northwest
were dropped to $398 roundtrip
Stop executions,
says Bazargan
BEIRUT, Lebanon
The man who served as Aya
tollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s first
premier spoke in Parliament on
Wednesday against the mass
executions of anti-government
leftists, but Khomeini loyalists
shouted him down, then walked
out and later called for his
death, reports from Tehran said
Following the speech by
former Prime Minister Mehdi
Bazargan, merchants in Tehran
staged a demonstration
demanding that Bazargan and
other "liberals" be thrown out
of the parliament, or Majlis,
state-controlled Tehran Radio
said
Bazargan called for an end to
the firing squad executions of
Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas,
arguing they were not "the
lackeys of the United States.”
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