NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1983
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Rumsfeld named new envoy
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan tapped Republican troubleshooter Donald Rumsfeld as his new Middle East envoy yesterday and added to "use the talents of our best minds to a achieve a just and lasting peace."
Reagan reaffirmed his long-stalled Middle East peace initiative in announcing the former defense secretary and White House chief of staff he is his new "point man" in a real cracked by crises and uncertainty.
"We intend to use the talents of our best minds to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East," Reagan said.
Reagan and Rumsfeld appeared in the press room to announce the appointment.
RUMSFELD WILL, TAKE a leave of absence from his post as president of G.D. Searle & Co. of Skokie, III., a giant drug manufacturer, to take the envoy job, for which he will get no government compensation.
Rumsfield will retain his corporate post and will continue collecting his salary, which in 1982, with bonuses, sold $444.583, a Searle spokesman said.
Asked whether the challenge of bringing peace to the Middle East is "a no-win job." Rumsfeld replied simply, "I guess time will tell."
"The fact that the problems there are intractable and difficult and have persisted over long periods doesn't
mean that the United States should ignore them," Rumsfeld said. "Rather, I think it suggests that it is what is intended," that is what is intended," he said.
WHAT IS RUMSFELD REPLACES ROBERT McFarlane, who was named Oct. 17 to succeed William Clark as White House national security adviser
Rumsfeld, 51, is a former four-term Illinois congressman, and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and Cost of Living Council under President Nixon. He also served as U.S. ambassador to NATO.
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Reagan praised Rumfield's "distinguished career in public service," as well as "the talent and vigor that I want to bear on these weighty problems."
Rumsfeld said he will begin work "almost immediately" and devote all his time to the job "for what would be a rather extended period of time.
Reagan said the peace proposals he set forth in September 1982 still offer "the best chance for a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict."
"No one's come up with a better proposal since," Reagan said. "I'm confident that progress in Lebanon will add momentum to the serious efforts that are going on to establish this broader peace."
WITH CRITICAL TALKS on Lebanese national reconciliation way in Geneva, Switzerland, Reagan
WASHINGTON — President Reagan announces his special Middle East envoy, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a press conference at the White House. Rumsfeld, who has held several posts under the Nixon and Ford administrations, succeeds Robert McFarlane who was recently named Reagan's national security adviser.
challenged the leaders of Lebanon's warring factions to "put the problems of the past aside" and join together in progress toward a broad peace.
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Greyhound to resume service within 2 weeks despite strike
By United Press International
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Greyhound Lines said yesterday that it would reopen its strike-bound nationwide bus system within two weeks, using either employees who agreed to take pay cuts or hundreds of unemployed who want the strikers' jobs.
John W. Teets, chairman of the parent Greyhound Corporation, set the timetable for reopening the nation's largest bus system, which shut down at midnight. Wednesday when 12,000 employees went on strike.
More than 7,000 drivers were participating in the walkout, which began over union rejection of a company-proposed pay cut, which it says is necessary to correct reported losses of $2 per mile on every route Grewould operates.
COMPANY SPOKESMAN Dorothy Lorant said that when operations resumed, striking employees would be invited to return to work. She said that if they did not, the company would have no trouble filling their jobs.
the 500 people outside?" They're not talking about passengers, but job applicants that we haven't recruited."
"It's absolutely mind-boggling the calls we're getting from our terminals," Mrs. Lorant said. "They're asking. What are we going to do with
The Boston bus terminal was surrounded with barbed wire and security guards on the roof filmed picketers below. Terminal windows were covered to prevent picketers from seeing drivers being interviewed.
Mrs. Lorant said 550 people lined up outside the Cleveland terminal, 700 in locations in New York, 200 in Birmingham, and 200 outside the Chicago garage.
THOUSANDS OF frustured travelers experienced delays yesterday as Greyhound, which carried 57 million passengers, marked its buses and locked its terminals.
However, Norman Sherlock, president of the American Bus Association said there were plenty of seats available on buses throughout the city. Greyhound was only one of hundreds of bus lines that operated intercity runs.
The Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Union Locals rejected the company's proposal of a 9.5 percent pay cut. Union leaders contended that it
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In Phoenix, Connie Luna, 52, of Indio,
Calif., who was traveling to Detroit,
said, "It's going to take me 63 hours
 instead of 38. They're giving a birthday
 or my grandson and I don't know
 if I'll be able to make it. This is a
 mess."
MRS. LORANT AGREED that some travelers were caught in the labor dispute as it began, but she said no one was stranded.
Scott Hanson, delayed in Memphis,
Tennessee was angry with the striking
workers.
"They have to understand, too, they have jobs where a lot of people don't." Hansen said.
"We had interline agreements," she said, "and in some cases we flew people. We flew six people from Fargo, N.D., to Winnipeg. To the best of our ability, we took care of anybody in the system last (wednesday) night."
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