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Public workers strike in Argentina
By United Press International
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — About $50,000 public employees began a 24-hour strike yesterday to demand higher pay, and financial sources said they would not be able to meet a $300 loan repayment due Thursday.
The sources said Argentina would ask for a 30-day extension on the payment.
About 350,000 school teachers,
demanding a starting salary of $208
dollars a month compared to the
$149 dollars a month, walked off
their jobs.
They were joined by judicial and customs house employees. Police in
two provinces, Cordoba and La Pampa, have been on strike five days.
FINANCIAL SOURCES said that Argentina does not have enough foreign exchange to make the payment for a short-term loan granted early this year by a private banking consortium.
Argentina is awaiting a new infusion of cash, from the International Monetary Fund to pay off its foreign debt of $40 billion, but the IMF first demands more austere economic policies.
Government sources said President Reynaldo Bignone will soon take measures to refinance the debt of his government, now owing bankers about $300
million, as well as order steps to refinance other government entities.
Argentina must pay $181 billion to creditors by the end of the year — an estimated $7.2 billion for public sector and deficit plagued state enterprises.
THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT has called presidential elections for Oct. 30, the first free elections in Argentina since 1973, and as part of the heralization process strikes, the military过程 in 1976, were recently declared legal.
Since then teachers have gone on several 24-hour walkouts and police strikes have plunged the provinces of Queens and New York into a state of provinces are expected to follow suit.
Water may pose health danger
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Growing contamination of precious U.S. ground water poses a threat to public health and should be measured by a national survey, the authors of a study on the environmental problem said yesterday.
The experts made the recommendation as they released a report, "Ground Water Contamination in the United States," which they touted as the first comprehensive overview of the nation's ground water problems.
Ground water is the source of about half the nation's drinking water and is used in large quantities for irrigation and for industrial purposes.
"We really do not know the extent of the contamination of ground water in the area," said Mr. Nielsen.
research director of the Environmental Assessment Council of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The council sponsored the two-year study
PYE, ONE OF the study's authors,
said there had been "no national survey of ground water contamination and the effect it with various degrees of intensity."
Ruth Patrick, another author and a leading expert on water pollution biology, predicted a major scientific undertaking to examine the nation's growing problem would likely uncover more contamination and more effect on human health."
John Quarles, the third author, told reporters that while a series of federal laws address portions of the problem, "No existing federal statute focuses explicitly on the protection of ground water in an overall sense."
"The most severe weakness which runs throughout this collection of ambitious, costly and important federal programs is that we have no coherent strategy for attacking the problems of ground water contamination," said Quarles, a top authority on environmental law and former deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
THE STUDY NOTES that while only 1 percent to 2 percent of U.S. ground water is currently classified as concrete scientists believe the problem is growing.
Ground water is contaminated by a wide range of substances, the study said, noting that septic tanks "are the highest-ranking source of wastewater ... discharged directly into ground water."
Soviets arrest U.S. diplomat on spy charges
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Counting on "Soviet humanism" toward women and children, an expelled U.S. diplomat took his wife and daughter on a family trip as a pretext to advance his spy agenda, the Soviet media said yesterday.
The Communist Party newspaper linked the arrest of Leningrad Vice Consul Len David Augustenborg and attempts to penetrate Soviet borders.
"Espionage — military, economic and political — is one of the lines of the general policy of the Reagan administration," Pravda, the newspaper, said. The State Department Monday protested what it called the physical
mistreatment of the couple by Soviet officials. The department gave no details.
A U.S. EMBASSY manwould not say whether the Augustenborgs already had left the Soviet Union after we were declared to be unwelcome there.
Augustenborg and his wife Denise were apprehended by KGB agents Sunday on the highway leading from their consulate in Leningrad to Zelenogorsk 25 miles away, Soviet television said.
It said the couple claimed to be heading for a family outing with their infant daughter.
Pravda said Augustenborg "took with him his little daughter when going out for an espionage operation in order to make it appear as a pleasure trip out of town. He calculated on Soviet humaneness, on our love for children."
signed in detail by the U.S. intelligence agencies," Soviet television said.
'But, the actual aim of the trip was quite different — to conduct the espionage activity deliberately de-
PRAVID SAID he planned to pick up a "spy container" on the road near Leningrad that was placed there by a Soviet citizen recruited to spy for the U.S.
"When the car braked to a stop near a milestone where the container was planted, Mr. Augustenborg did not venture to go out to get it," Pravda said. "He sent his wife. They know our respect for women."
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