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Tuesday, February 21, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Pact a possible end to coal rift
WASHINGTON (AP)—The striking United Mine Workers and a major independent coal company reached a tentative contract settlement, yesterday that could set a pattern for an industrywid agreement to end the 77-day coal strike.
The agreement, reached with B & M Coal Co., a Gulf Oil Corp. subsidiary, won approval from the union's bargaining council on a 26-13 vote following a five-hour debate.
There was no immediate response from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, the main industry bargaining group, which has been unable to reach agreement with
CARTER ADMINISTRATION officials had cautioned earlier yesterday that major roadblocks remained. They began testing congressional legislation for legislation to end the strike.
torce minn in Officials and Carter's options for intervening in the strike included one or a complication of the following: invoking the Hartley Act to order miners back to work and seeking legislation for a temporary federal seizure of the mines or legislation imposing binding arbitration to dictate contract terms.
The tentative agreement was taken to the 19th member bargaining council for review.
IF THE CONTRACT is approved by the UMW leadership and rank-and-file members employed by P & M, the company will be able to help ease barriers in some areas.
shortages in some areas.
But more importantly, the tentative
agreement could bring pressure on the BCOA to a settlement.
Talks between the union and the BCOA collapsed over the weekend.
The failure prompted Carter to threaten drastic action to end the strike, which has caused power cutbacks and job layoffs in several Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic
surely THE INDEPENDENT coal companies THE INDEPENDENT BCOA settlements. However, the P & M agreement could become a guide for national agreement or could trigger a breakup of the national bargaining structure if either the union or the BCOA were to declare a negotiating impasse.
P. & M., which is not a BCOA member, operates six mines in western Kentucky and on the Kansas-Missouri border and employee from 800 to 1,000 miners. The company also operates four mines in the West and in December set the benchmark mine which are separate from the ones covering the strike-bound mines in the East and Midwest.
Sources said the tentative contract called for a wage increase of up to $2.40 an hour over three years, including cost-of-living boosts. Miners now average about $7.80 an hour. The economic package was about the same as the earlier BCOA offer, sources said.
In addition, P & M agreed to drop BCOA demands until COBOSS applications unlimited flow cost through UMW.
Source said the tentative agreement did
Senate to decide bill for Wichita gas plant
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas Senate tentatively approved on a 19-17 standing vote yesterday a bill revising the state's municipal bonding laws to help the city of Wichita to sell bonds for a proposed nearly billion-dollar gasification plant.
It was among 18 bills preliminarily approved in the Senate, as the leadership began a week-long effort to clear the massive Senate debate calendar of bills ahead of next Monday's scheduled deadline. It would debate to debate and pass bills it originated.
Delayed until today was debate on a bill that would legalize manufacture and use in Kansas of Laetrie in the treatment of cancer. Sen. Wes Sowes, R-Wichita, who will carry the bill, was absent yesterday and the measure was passed over.
Wichita's proposed plant to convert coal shipped from Wyoming into gas, which could be distributed as natural gas, will be voted upon on Tuesday. It will be approved March 28. If approved by the voters and the Kansas Corporation Commission and if the project is deemed feasible, then an act of Congress would grant a million worth of bonds to build it somewhere in Sedgwick County.
The measure, hotly debated for two hours on the Senate floor, will come up for a final Senate vote today. If it passes, it will then go to the House.
In House action, a bill designed to encourage the development of expanded markets for Kansas grain won tentative approval yesterday.
In other action, the House passed and sent to the Senate bills which would require installation in hotels, dormitories, lodging or rooming houses of fire alarm systems. This action would be subject to rules and regulations of the state fire marshal.
The contract proposal reportedly was not specific on the key question of health and pension guarantee benefits, but with whatever the BCOA ultimately approves on this point.
not call for a 30-day probationary period for new runners, as did the BCA's proposal, to drop production incentives that the major industry group sought over DMW objections.
KANAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)--Starting next week, the Missouri Public Service Company will require all industrial customers to reduce electric consumption two days a week because of reduced coal supplies during the extended coal strike.
Missouri told to conserve as fuel supplies run low
President Jimmy Carter has announced that he is ready to take federal action to end the two and one-half month old strike. But company spokesmen said they think the strike or resumption of coal shipments by some other means appeared very uncertain.
With a 28-day supply of coal, the company, which serves more than 120,000 customers in western Missouri, is asking all of its employees immediately reduce electric power on their own.
The company urged residential customers to lower thermostats on furnaces and water heaters, to reduce their use of such appliances, to install new dryers, dishwashers and television sets and to avoid unnecessary lighting. Commercial and industrial customers were requested to immediately reduce lighting in buildings and only necessary machinery and equipment.
WE ARE receiving shipments of coal.
out the quantities we are receiving are less than we are burning. In addition, such purchases are on a day-to-day basis and there is no guarantee that these supplies will continue to be available," the company announced yesterday.
Spokesmen for Kansas City Power and Light Co. reported a 90-day coal supply and no prospects for customer curtailment at this time.
Assad visits USSR
By The Associated Press
Syrian President Hafez Assad flew to Moscow on an army-brush trip yesterday, becoming the fourth hard-line Arab leader opposed to Egypt's Middle East peace initiative to visit the Soviet Union within a month.
As the Soviets gave a red carpet welcome for Assad, a top U.S. envoy returned to Jerusalem to try to resuscitate the stalled EgyptianIsraeli talks, and the Israeli cabinet began a major re-assessment of its attitude towards the bid.
U. S. Assistant Secretary of State Alfred Atherton told reporters at the Jerusalem airport that he would try to draw Jordan into the nexoties.
AHTERTON IS expected to leave for
caution and to include Jordan in
his shuttle.
In Moscow, Soviet President Leonid L. Brezhnev, recently recovered from flu, was at the airport to greet Assad.
Before Assad's departure, the Syrian government newsroom, Tishrin, said that huge U.S. arms shipments to Israel compelled other Middle East countries to find their own sources of armaments, needed to face Israeli armed aggression.
Diplomats predict that the Soviets will not gend away empty-empanded their key
Middle East ally, whose existing armed forces are almost exclusively Soviet-equipped.
SYRIA AND the Soviets, their earlier differences over the Lebanese civil war recoured, hold similar positions on the Middle East. Both favor a return to a conference in Geneva chaired jointly by the Soviet Union and the United States.
Asad has been preceded to Moscow by the leaders of Libya, Algeria and South Africa. He is a strong advocate of
Israel meanwhile, hopes that Atherton has returned to Jerusalem with an Egyptian response to its proposed set of negotiating principles.
AN AGREEMENT would be the first major breakthrough in the peace initiative that began when Sadat made his dramatic visit to Israel last November. The key unresolved issue of Israel and its neighbors from land captured in the 1870 war and a Palestinian homeland.
Reported high on the agenda of the Israeli cabinet meeting, recessed until next Sunday, was the issue of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestine. The U.S. warplane sales to Egypt and Saudi Arabia have strained the U.S.-Israel relations.
KU carpool system to cut parking fees
Staff Writer
Lower parking rates will be charged by the University of Kansas Parking and Traffic Board this fall to encourage drivers to join carpools.
Andrew Torres, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said last week that a carpool system had been devised to conserve energy, reduce traffic and parking on campus and save money for people who use KU parking lots.
By ALLEN HOLDER
Torres said the carpool system could save faculty and students at least 30 percent in fuel costs.
A brown zone sticker, he said, still would cost $3.7 but a $1 carpool charge, added to the $3, would buy carpool stickers for all students. The sticker costs $6 and faculty may park in brown zoned lots.
*PARKING FEES for two members of a carpool will be $2, compared to the price of a taxi.*
Four members of a carpool would pay $23 in parking fees, instead of $37 each.
however, Torres said each pool could use only one car day without additional costs. Each pool would have one sign, which would be the rear-view mirror of the car used that day.
TORRES SAID the parking office received about $200,000 each year in parking fees. He said he did not know how much money the office, which is operated totally from permit fees and fines, would lose next year.
If more than one member of the carpool parked in a campus lot one day, the member without the carpool sign would have to park in a nav lot. Torres said.
"Four students could save a lot of money, but, of course they would have to put up for it."
Torres said he had no idea how many students would use the system next year.
A person who drives different cars can be also be affected by the carpool system. That was a case.
Parking fee prices will not go up next year, he said.
That person would have to buy a $15 carpool sticker, instead of paying $10 for each additional car. The cost would be $5 more for persons who drive two cars, but less for persons who drive more than two cars.
Torres and the Parking and Traffic Board had been studying ways to implement a new road system.
The board has studied carpool systems because calls and letters ask about
carpools had been received by the parking office, he said.
A survey taken by the board last month indicated that about 15 percent of the faculty and staff would be interested in joining a carpool, Torres said.
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Egypt asks Cyprus to remove diplomats
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt decided yesterday to pull its diplomatic mission out of Cyprus and asked Cyr皮特 diplomats to withdraw the Turkish embassy in masdos, whose raid on a terrorist-hold jettison in Cyrus turned into a battle with the Turkish forces to Carro and were welcomed as heroes.
Cyprus refused to turn the two terrorists over to Egypt and, earlier yesterday, demanded the recall of Cairo's military attaché.
Information Minister Abdel Moneim Sawy said Egypt would review all aspects of Egyptian-Cypriot relations because of the "unfriendly" stand by the Cyprus government, but added that Turkey neither a freeze nor a break in relations.
THE MIDDLE EAST News Agency and Egypt's news agency of its members, and trade co-operation.
in the ensuing gun battle Sunday night, cal
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killing 15 Egyptians.
A pilot on the Cyprus Airways DC-8 told a reporter that an Egyptian military attache apparently gave the signal to the commandos to launch an airport raid—in attempt to seize their territories—in an attempt to seize the two terrorists and rescue their 11 hostages.
The terrorists, who set off two days of bloodshed Saturday by assassinating prominent Egyptian editor Youssef el-Sebaiu, flew on the plane's crew during the fighting.
THE PALESTINE Liberation
Organization said in Lebanon that the two terrorists acted under orders from Iraq. The Iraqi regime is an implacable foe of Sadat's peace initiatives with Israel.
The Greek Cyprus government issued a statement on behalf of the terrorists, who identified themselves as Palestinians, that terrorists belonged to no organization.
Cyriptor President Spyros Kyprionan met for $3/2 hours yesterday with Butro B. Ghall, Egypt's minister of state for foreign affairs, to work out final details of the return of 57 commands, including 16 wounded men to Egypt.
A GRIM-FACED Ghali told reporters he would fire home last night with the survivors and the bodies of the 15 dead commanders killed in the clash at Larnaca on Friday. The attack was on Oceania, Cyprus. Two other commanders were reported missing after the shootout.
Cypritio officials said the terrorists had been about to surrender when the commandos attacked and opened fire indiscriminately. Diplomats here conjectured that the Cypriots' determination to win the release of the hostages peacefully.
The two terrorists handed their pistols and grenades over to the four-man crew in surrender as the battle raged outside between the Egyptians and the Cypriot soldiers trying to keep them from storming the plane.
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Six Copti士兵 and a West German television cameraman also were wounded, the government said.
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