University Daily Kansan, November 29, 1983 Page 8
NATION AND WORLD
Gold is attracting hundreds to Thai-Cambodian border
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — Word that gold had been discovered on a tapia plantation sent hundreds of prospectors rushing to the Thai-Cambodian border, it was reported yesterday.
Newspapers reported that the gold rush was sparked by the news that Boopeng Intharasu found a large rock on his tapioca floor with gold dust when broken apart. The value of the gold was not known.
The newspapers said hundreds of prospectors arrived in the Sa Kaeo district about 120 miles east of Bangkok. The rain lasted for another day of the gold strike.
Despite the dangers of the Thai-Cambodian border area, where Vietnamese troops and Cambodian guerrilla groups operate, police said more than 400 prospectors and that a number turned up seeking instant wealth.
But the lack of information did not deter the would-be prospectors who set up a tent city and leased a square yard claims for $782 each.
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Striking Greyhound employees yesterday overwhelmingly rejected the bus line's request for a pay cut, calling the proposal unjustified and excessive, union officials saft.
Greyhound employees reject pay-cut plan
By United Press International
Union officials asked for an immediate resumption of contract talks to end the nationwide walkout, which began 3 and has been marked by periodic violence.
Greyhound spokesman said the com-
mission on the development until today.
The contract offer, which called for a 8 percent pay cut, was voted down by 146 to 59.
union officials said in a news conference. The vote was 325 in favor of accepting the pay cut and 9,181 against.
"We striking Amalgamated Union members sent an unmistakable message to Greyhound today when they rejected the company's latest offer of union membership and benefit cuts," said Harry Rosebush, president of the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Union Locals.
"In light of this vote and in order to expedite a resumption of negotiations between the parties, I am openly offering to return to the bargaining table at the earliest possible time and reopen substantive dialogue with the company on all unresolved issues presently facing us.
"We stand ready as we have from the beginning to settle our differences with Greyhound through the collective bargaining process but not on a take-it-or-leave it basis. That format does not provide for meaningful negotiations nor reflect good faith bargaining."
PRIOR TO the union announcement, Greyhound officials said the company chairman John Tests would hold a news conference on Tuesday to announce Greyhound's future plans.
More than 12,000 Greyhound employees went on strike after union leaders rejected a proposed 9.5-percent pay cut and a reductions in benefits. The nation's largest bus company began hiring replacement workers Nov. 14
and resumed limited service on Nov 17
When negotiations between the union and the company resumed, Greyhound offered the smaller pay cut with reduced benefits. Union leaders criticized it, saying it predicted it would be rejected, but submitted it to union members anyway.
Bosenhlum said the striker "would be thrilled to death to return to work." He said they did not want to lose their jobs "but they don't want to return because the contract offer nullifies their desire to be a loyal employee."
Ellis Franklin, an international vice president of the union, said the company's total offer would actually work for workers 19 percent in least benefits.
Passengers not warned before jumbo jet crash
By United Press International
MEJORADA DEL CAMPO, Spain — Survivors of a Colombian jumbo jet crash that killed 181 people said yesterday that they did not know anything was wrong as the plane approached the Madrid airport.
Spanish government officials, families and friends of the victims packed a funeral service in an airport chapel while investigators, including a fourman team from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, site for the cause of the crash of the Avianca airlines Boeing 747 on Sunday.
The NTSB investigates all crashes of U.S. made commercial aircraft.
MEDICAL EXAMINERS CONTINUE
patients of victims of an airport hanger
Pedro Tena, director of Spanish Civil Aviation, said the search through the charred, scattered debris would continue for several days.
"This is a Sherlock Holmes kind of investigation because little things can change."
Roldolo Amaya, Aviana's European director, said the airport's final plan would be to upgrade the runway.
passengers and crew aboard had died.
One of the 11 survivors, Patrick Negers, 29, who lives outside Paris,
said he "thought it was a nightmare" when he found himself and his family in the flaming wreckage.
Negers, whose wife, Elizabeth, 26, and their two children, Kathy, 4, and Ludovic, 20 months, also survived, said. The couple's stewardess as the jet came in to land
"Suddenly the plane lost altitude very quickly." he said.
THE LAST thing he remembered, he said, was seeing flames coming from the roof of his house.
"I saw the airplane in flames and I thought it was a nightmare and I touched the ground to see if it was real." She said. "I didn't know I'm here and I'm with the children."
He said that during the first moments I saw no one else, no bodies, not the ones we were in.
The jet came to rest belly up, torn to pieces that were strewn over the ground.
Another survivor, Hugo Bernal Cortes, in his 30s, from Colombia, said that he did not hear a warning before the crash either.
Cortes found himself hanging
upside down by his seatbelt
School desegregation is not money scheme,lawyer says
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS—An attorney for the St. Louis School Board yesterday denied charges that the landmark voluntary desegregation plan was only a play for the city to finance these improvements in its schools.
"We're using every available dollar to desegregate our schools." Kenneth C. Brostron, the attorney, "The city board isn't reaping benefits. We aren't; paying anyone dividends. It's for the kids."
The cost of the plan was the main topic of a two-hour hearing before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court previously denied financing of the plan and heard oral arguments to resolve them.
THE COURT TOOK the case under advisement and was expected to issue a ruling in January.
Attorneys for the state and the Justice Department questioned parts of the plan which required Missouri to pay half of the costs to
desegregate St. Louis schools, which was estimated at $50 million.
Broston taught the school board and the St. Louis County school districts that have agreed to participate in the program were following a federal mandate to integrate St. Louis schools.
ALTHOUGH NEITHER THE state nor suburban schools have been found guilty of discriminatory actions, proponents of the desegregation plan said blacks were routinely bused into the city before the historic 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed such practices.
Under the plan, which went into effect this fall, Inner-city blacks can voluntarily transfer to predominantly white schools in suburban St Louis County. By 1988, as many as 15,000 black city students are expected to attend suburban schools.
Charles J. Cooper, a Washington attorney representing the Justice Department, said the desegregation plan would be acceptable only if a suburban jail the state and suburban schools were liable for the program."
'Human shield' threat forces halt to deer hunt
By United Press International
IFSWICH, Mass. — "Human shield" protestors vowing to throw themselves in front of hunters' rifles forced the cancellation of a controversial deer hunt yesterday at a coastal nature reserve.
"They were going to put themselves in danger and put themselves in a position that they would have to be arrested," said Wayne Mitton, a spokesman for the 1,400-acre Crane Memorial Reservation. "We were not prepared to have that kind of confrontation."
A small group of animal lovers who had picketed the scenic reserve over the weekend had planned to sneak inside.
when the hunt began yesterday, they planned to act as human shields to prevent the shooting of 75 of the 185-member white-tailed deer herd — which wildlife experts said was needed because of overpopulation.
DOZENS OF HUNTERS who expected to participate in the state-sanctioned, five-day hunt were told late Sunday that it had been canceled.
were going to stand up and keep them from shooting the deer," said protest organizer Dorothy O'Brien of Plymouth. "This victory is just like a dream. This is my Thanksgiving, that our deer have been saved."
The Trustees of Reservations, a charitable corporation that manages the Crane Memorial Reservation, decided to call off the hunt, which would have been the first time in three years deer hunting was to be allowed there.
"When the hunters came around, we
The trustees and wildlife officials will review other options for reducing the herd, such as resettlement, Mitton said.
The trustees and the Ipswich Board of Selectmen along with state wildlife officials had approved the hunt by 75 persons a day.
SUPPORTERS CONTEND CRANE'S Beach was overpopulated with deer, which would lead to many of the animals starving, endangerment of vegetation and the spreading of disease.
**but the animal lovers said that the deer were virtually tame because they were so accustomed to seeing people and such a slaughter would be inhumane.**
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