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Carter, Miller optimistic; others oppose coal deal
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON-United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller, President Jimmy Carter and Labor Secretary Ray Marshall remained cautiously optimistic yesterday as the proposal to end the country's coal strike was being sent to the mine for ratification.
But a number of union officials in West Virginia, a key state in the ratification process, were not optimistic about the process for adoption of the contract. Hopes for ending the 84-day-old strike dimmed even more when UMW members rejected a similar contract with the independent Pittsburgh & Midway Mining Co. Saturday.
MINERS IN four of the five UMW laws affected by the mining company's contract voted 357 to 163 against the proposal. Several of the men said they vote against
the contract because they wanted to see whether the national agreement was better.
"I think our members understand that in collective bargaining you don't get everything you want. We didn't contract with them, it guarantees our employees and pension benefits and takes a step toward speeding up the grievance procedure."
THE UNION'S 160,000 striking miners will not vote on the contract until early next week. Although Miller said he did not plan to go to the coalfields and urge ratification of the contract, hundreds of district and local UMW officials will be attempting to sell the contract to the miners who will work under its provisions for the next three years.
A majority is needed for ratification.
A majority is needed for implementation. The 130-member Bituminous Coal Operators Association has its own ratification process. Although the
association apparently will not announce its vote until the miners have cast their secret ballots, the mine operators are expected to anrove the contract.
THE CONTRACT provides a 37 percent wage increase over the next three years, with an immediate $1-an-hour raise. This means that you would pay about $80 a day by 1980, not counting overtime.
"I fear that if this contract is ratified, it
may be struck as an unwalkable as the
1974仲裁规则."
Steve Shapiro, president of a UMW local at Bishop, Va., said he did not think the new contract would solve the problems in grievance machinery that made the 1974 contract so unworkable and caused so many wildcat strikes.
"I also fear that after being out on strike more than 80 days, the pay raise is not enough. Scab mines already make more than we will make."
Park arrives to answer charges
WASHINGTON (AP) -Tongus Park, vowing to tell the truth to Congress about alleged South Korean payoffs to U.S. congressmen, arrived in Washington yesterday afternoon after a 1½-year absence.
Park, accompanied by Justice Department lawyers and surrounded by 20 U.S. and Korean security agents, made the trip from Seattle. The trip marked the culmination of a painstaking U.S. effort to return Park, a millionaire rice dealer, to the United States.
He had been scheduled to fly from Honolulu to Chicago and on to Washington. Authorities did not announce the change in flight plans until just before he left Honolulu.
"AS A RESULT of my giving my side of the story as well as I can recollect how things did happen. I hope things will come to a happy ending." Park said when he
In other matters concerning Park, Newsweek magazine reported in this week's editions that Park mentioned as chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in Washington.
Park denied ties to the intelligence
organization, saying that he had been裁掉 by Yang and that the loan had not been repaid.
Park's scheduled appearance before the House Ethics Committee tomorrow was made possible by an agreement between the U.S. and South Korean governments that gave Park a grant of immunity from criminal prosecution.
INDICTED BY a federal grand jury last year on 36 counts of bribery and other charges, Park already has undergone extensive interrogation by U.S. prosecutors in Seoul. The U.S. government is charging that he lavished gifts and payoffs on members of Congress to influence their votes on legislation affecting South Korea.
Specifically, Park has been accused of trying to buy influence for the South Korean government with cash, gifts and enragement. He was at the George Town Club that he founded.
PARK INSTIS that he simply gave campaign contributions to help his own business interests. But prosecutors say the government has quietly paid in Seoul that payments to least five for-
Freight train derails releases chlorine gas
Authorities said eight persons were killed and at least 67 were hospitalized.
YOUNGSTOWN, Fla. (AP)—A freight train dressed near Youngstown early yesterday, rupturing a tank car and carrying it through clean chlorine气across a busy highway.
Automobile engines apparently stalled when the chlorine cut off the oxygen needed for combustion. Cars careened into roadside ditches. Some motorists fled into a swamp near the tracks, only to be enveloped by the searing greenish-yellow cloud.
"It was instant death," Al Smith, an emergency troubleshooter for the Atlanta branch of Environmental Protection Agency, said. "The kind of death we're talking about, it literally burns your lungs up."
TOM LOFTIN, deputy sheriff, said he was driving to the scene before he knew what had happened, when he found people running down the highway, vomiting and screaming for help.
"I didn't really feel it too much, but it had a punch to it," Ittold said. "It was like smelling Clorox, maybe a thousand times worse."
About 2,500 residents of an 80-square-mile
area of rural North Florida were evacuated and told it would not be safe to return before today. The Florida Highway Patrol blocked U.S. 231 where it parallels the short railroad line between Dothan, Ala., and the popular Gulf of Mexico resorts at Panama
The highway was blanketed for hours after the 1:30 a.m. derailment by the cloud that escaped from the ruptured tank car about 200 vards away.
ABOUT 47 cars and five five-wheelers of the 140-car freight were定员ed, police
Russell Gover of the National Transportation Safety Board said it appeared that the derailment was caused by a broken rail, but he said that a tentative con-
The dead were apparently all young adults or teen-agers, officials at the three hospitals where victims were taken said. An admitting officer at one hospital said some of the youths had been raconto hunting in their area and when the choking cloud swept over them.
The eighth victim was not located until late yesterday afternoon, where searchers in a helicopter spotted a body in a swamp field across the highway from the wreckage.
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Investigators for the ethics committee have said Park's testimony is crucial to their task of determining whether current and former congressmen allowed themselves to be influenced by South Korean money.
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More than 20 congressmen have acknowledged getting campaign contributions from Park that ranged from $100 to $,000. But they have insisted that they was a foreign agent who was trying that Park was a foreign agent who voted to influence the way they voted.
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BUT HE indicated indirectly that China would continue its policy of improving relations with the United States and the West. Hainshua said he pledged to carry out such measures but also warned of the fate of the late Chairman Mao, who began the rapereapochment with Washington.
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Hua said China would continue to struggle against the Soviet Union and the United States, in particular against Soviet social imperialism.
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A television broadcast seen in Tokyo of the congress' opening showed the 3,456 delegates and their guests applauding while the smiling Hua entered Pekeng's Great Hall of the People. He is followed by the party's first vice chairman, and by the other vice chairmen, Teng Hsiao-ping, Li Hisien-nien and Wang Tung-hsing.
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TOKYO (AP)—Standing beneath huge portraits of himself and Mao Tse-tung, Hua Kuo-feng, Communist Party chairman, opened China's fifth National People's Congress yesterday to urging readiness for a takeover of Taiwan.
Hua said the People's Liberation Army must make all the preparations necessary for what China considers the liberation of Taiwan. Peking's official Hainu news agency reported in a dispatch received in Tokyo.
Chinese insistence that Washington withdraw its recognition and defense pact with Taiwan has been the main obstacle to establishment of U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations.
HSINUA'S excerpts from Hua's 3½-hour speech did not expand on the reference to Taiwan. He and other Peking scholars who have criticized the liberation of the island from the Nationalist Chinese, who fleed there after the Communist China victory in 1949. But they generally have played down the military character of such a takeover.
Chinese suggest Taiwan attack
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THE ASSEMBLY rose in silent tribute to three leaders who died in 1976-Mao, Premier Chou En-lai and Chi Teh, head of the country committee of the congress, China's parliament.
radicals, who emphasized ideological purity and distrusted foreign influences, were seized in October 1978 on charges of plotting to overthrow Hua, whose government stresses technological progress and greater openness to the West.
This session is the first since their deaths and the arrest of the radical Gang of Four, a paramilitary group active in the country.
HUA, 57, addressed the congress in his concurrent capacity as premier.
Weak walls trigger tanker car explosion
WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) — A railroad official said yesterday that a propane tanker car explosion that killed at least 11 persons and injured at least 60 might have been caused by a weakness in the walls of the 28,000-gallon steel car.
treatment centers in Kentucky and Alabama.
"That theory is one that we may settle on," Philip L. Hoope, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. resident vice president for Tennessee, said.
The fatality toll from Friday's explosion rose to 11 with the death yesterday of two burn victims who had been flown Saturday night from Nashville to special burn
GUY BARNETT, 45, the city's police chief, died yesterday at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, and Herbert Wassing, 34, an employee of the Liquid Transport Co., died at Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
In Waverley, Carl Wallace, state adatent general said organized efforts to search for the missing wife.
"I think we found all that we're going to, but we may find some more within the next day or two," he said. "As far as an organized search, we are through."
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