NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1983 Page 10
Bus line strikers submit new contract
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Reluctant Gray-bound union leaders handed a new concessionary contract proposal to the government's top mediator yesterday, seeking to entice negotiators for the bus driver and bargaining table to end a 29-day strike.
Presidents of the 31 Greyhound local unions representing Amalgamated Transit Union presented the package to Chief Federal Mediator Kay McMurray in a private meeting at a Washington hotel.
The union officials are hopeful that McMurray can use his influence as director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to convince Grey-bound officials to rescind their take-it-leave-it proposal, which called for a 7.8 percent wage reduction and cuts in some benefits.
A UNION source said McMurray had arrived at the Hotel Washington in the early afternoon and met with ATU President John Roland in a private room at which time the contract proposal was passed to McMurray.
The local union presidents left their internauc room at 4 p.m. CST and attend the annual meeting.
a. m. CST today. There was no word on reaction from Greyhound, and details were not available.
"Hopefully we'll have something to borrow but that's no guarantee. Nor will we be able to find it."
The nationwide strike began Nov. 3. It has severely reduced Greyhound operations and has been marked by periodic violence as the company continues operations with new-hires and non-striking employees.
IN INDIANA, birdshot was fired yesterday at three Greyhound buses carrying replacement employees of the strikeship carrier to a training session in Chicago. State police said no one was hurt as the birdshot hit but did not pierce the windshield of one of the three buses.
In Cleveland, about 25 unemployed workers rallied to urge the jobless not to take the jobs of striking Greyhound workers, picketing near the regional accounting headquarters of the bus line singing "Greyhound," shut it down.
The union had been expected to give ground in several areas. The union officials examined the contract proposal item by item, including provisions involving wages, vacations, and even split shifts for terminal personnel.
Transit union officials are banking on McMurray to convince Greyhound board chairman John Teets to have his negotiators resume bargaining.
THE COMPANY has adamantly backed its 7.8 percent pay cut demand, along with reduced benefits — a change that members rejected overwhelmingly.
"Obviously the union knows what we need, what we have to do to get back to it."
"We will negotiate," Behnke said, despite Teets' statement Tuesday that Greyhound, the nation's No. 1 bus line, would better deal without destroying company
At corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. , Greyhound spokesman Don Behnke said yesterday the firm was considering some "comes out of the Washington meeting."
The spokesman said riders "held up very well over the (Thanksgiving) holiday, weekend," and on Sunday made sure per bus on the reduced schedule.
The bus line, which carried 57 million passengers last year, has warned it will hire permanent replacements for strikers, and said it has reached "the point of no return" for ensuring jobs for the union members if they return.
Pranksters vow to make slaw of stolen dolls
NAMPA, Idaho — Pranksters kid-napped one of the coveted Cabbage Patch Kid dolls from a newspaper-perman's car and held it for ransom, saying "Don't call the cops or your Cabbage Kid will be coleslaw."
By United Press International
Rick Coffman, manager editor of the Idaho Press Tribune, said that the doll, named Jacob, was snatched from the parking lot andanked in his car parked in the paper's lot.
The next morning, Coffman received a ransom note saying, "We've got the money." He said it would be sent to him.
Christmas, be prepared to pay. Our demands will follow. Don't call the cops if you see them.
"It's obviously a gig by someone at the paper. And it may be everyone at the paper," laughed Coffman, 36, a young man with a long hoping to resell it before Christmas.
Yesterday morning, the editor received an anonymous telephone call
"A deep male voice told me information concerning Jacob could be found underneath a bush outside our editorial offices," said Coffman. "I went out there and found a cassette tape in a bottle."
He played the tape and a female voice identifying herself as a member of the "December 23th Committee" with a classified ad in the newspaper today.
The dolls have caused madness in stores across the county as shoppers scramble to buy them as Christmas gifts in the face of a short supply.
The dolls, who have individual facial features, clothing and names, come with birth certificates and adoption papers.
WASHINGTON — Alan Walker, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, holds a cost of a jaw from an apelike creature about 17 million years old. Officials said yesterday that the jaw might be that of a common ancestor of humans and all the great apes.
Bones from Kenya could be a link between man,ape
WASHINGTON - Scientists reported yesterday that they found 16 to 18-million-year old remains of an apelike creature in Africa that may be a link in the chain of evolution from apo to man.
A team headed by Alan Walker, a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Richard Leakey, director of the National Museums of Kenya, found the bones. They were riveted in northern Kenya this fall.
Tests indicate the remains, thought to be of those an animal in the orangutan family, are twice as old as the oldest orangutan remains on record
The newly found creature was probably about the size of a male chimpanzee or female orangutan weighing 120 to 150 pounds.
Scientists, archeologists and others have been searching for a common ancestor to humans and modern apes. We would solve the mystery of evolution.
Walker said, however, it is not as simple as that. Although the newly found creature may be related to man but may be the one considered the "missing link," he said
"If we think of all the generations of animals, ancestor to descendant mother to daughter, and ask how many fossils we've got, practically all the animals have been told in a telephone interview "That's the persecutive you have to have.
The team, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, found the bones in the arid Buluk region in northern Kenya during August and September. The area had been soaked by a geologist searching out volcanic rock
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New time-release hormone treatment helps women conceive
By United Press International
eight women deficient in the hormone.
CHICAGO - Women whose inability to conceive children has been traced to a certain hormone deficiency became pregnant and had healthy babies under a new time-release treatment, doctors said yesterday.
Doctors at the University of California School of Medicine in San Diego administered low doses of GnRH — gonadotropin-releasing hormone — to
eight women deficient in the hormone. Seven of the women became pregnant, and four of those pregnancies resulted in full-term deliveries of normal infants. The other three miscarried within 10 weeks of conception.
The women took the hormone by means of a portable pump, which injected the hormone into the bloodstream every 96 or 120 minutes. The women took the hormone-blood concentrations 30 times higher than pre-treatment levels.
All eight women began ovulating after the treatment, and five became pregnant within the third treatment cycles. Dr David S. Miller, now a professor of obstetrics and gynecology Medical Center, said in the Journal of the American Medical Association
"All patients accepted the procedure well, and no side effects were observed."
The women carried the pump about 2 by 8 inches — in their purse or on a backpack.
their arm through an intravonous tubing connected to the pump.
"They just have this little pump with them and it gives them the medicine automatically every hour or a half or two hours," Miller said in an interview.
The injections began on the first day of the menstrual cycle and continued until the woman ovulated an average of two weeks later.
"But some patients were on it for as long as 60 days," Miller said.
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