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University Daily Kansan, August 23, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Official blasts Reagan stand on sex discrimination, quits
WASHINGTON — A disgruntled Justice Department official who worked on the administration's project to eliminate sexually discriminatory laws resigned yesterday, the day after she had blasted President Reagan's commitment to women.
President Reagan's commitment to women:
Barbara Honegger, a $7,000-a-year special assistant at the Justice Department, said she had realized a month ago that "Ronald Reagan never intended to enforce equal rights for women."
"The president made a promise to the American people on Dec. 21, 1981, in an executive order he signed with force of law, that he would identify and correct every single remaining sexually discriminatory federal statute.
"To date, not a single statute has been corrected." Honegger said on NBC-TV's Today Show. She announced on the program that she was resigning.
reagining.
In Los Angeles, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said that Honegeger's suggestion that Reagan was not committed to rooting out discrimination "was just not true."
French commander arrives in Chad
NJAMENA. Chad — The commander of the French garrison arrived in Ndjamena yesterday accompanied by elite airborne commandos and he faced a difficult job in halting the invasion of the former French colony by Libyan-backed rebels.
His arrival came as diplomatic sources said U.S. officials were in the country for consultations on resuming $25 million in aid pledged by President Reagan. Only $10 million, consisting of surface-to-air missiles, i.eeps, trucks and uniforms, has arrived so far.
"I am here and I have a difficult job ahead," the French commander, Brig. Gen. Jean Poli, said in a brief press statement at the military headquarters.
Poli, 54, arrived aboard a French Air Force DC-8 along with more than 100 black-bereted French airborne commands.
Poles plan slowdown despite threat
WARSAW, Poland — Poland's Communist Party newspaper yesterday warned workers that they risked pay cuts if they heeded the Solidarity underground's call for a nationwide slowdown this week.
Solidarity underground's call for action came in Gdansk, Leh Walesa, leader of Solidarity, a banned union, said that chances for success of the protest were uncertain but that union activists would go ahead with their campaign.
More than 1,000 people had gathered expecting a speech by Wales and a march to a Solidarity monument outside the shipyard's main gate. But the former union chairman sent everyone home and said that no mass demonstrations would occur until next week.
Attorney admits sex crimes by client
AKRON, Ohio — A defense attorney for Edward F. Jackson Jr., a physician, conceded yesterday that the physician had had forced sex with 22 women, one of them a nun, and had committed 38 other felonious acts of which he has been accused.
Jackson, an internist and father of two teen-age girls, has pleaded not guilty and innocent by reason of insanity in Summit County Common Pleas Court to 96 charges, which are being heard in two separate trials. The trials are taking place 130 miles from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, on a change of venue.
"We acknowledge to you that Dr. Jackson committed the acts for which he has been charged, no question about it," lawyer John Bowen told prospective jurors at the start of jury selection. "Very frankly, I would deserve him as a Dr. JackeyMr.Hyde. I contend he is a sick man and is us."
Skydivers die in fiery plane crash
STANWOOD. Wash. — Skydivers enjoying a weekend outing tried frantically to jump from their airplane after the plane, without warning, headed into a spiraling, 12,500-foot nose dive that killed 11 passengers, survivors said yesterday.
Fifteen of the 24 parachutists, some of whom were already poised to jump when the trouble began, got away from the plunging aircraft and survived. But nine skydivers, the pilot and co-pilot were unable to escape and died in the fiery crash Sunday.
The plane, a twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar, crashed nose-first at 6:30 p.m. on a rural road 40 miles north of Seattle. Sunday was to have been the fourth and final jump by the group of recreational parachutists.
Irish Protestants to lobby Congress
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Protestant politicians angry over recent visits to Northern Ireland by pro-Catholic U.S. groups announced plans yesterday for a Friends of Ulster network in the United States.
High on the list of priorities for the lobby group will be the case of a Belfast-based planmaker, Short Brothers and Harland, which is seeking a U.S. Air Force contract for 18 aircraft worth $40 million.
Two U.S. fact-finding groups visiting Northern Ireland, including one led by Rep. Dick Ottinger, D-N.Y., said last week that Short's bid should be rejected because of hiring discrimination against Catholics by the firm.
State hoists flag,claims tiny island
State officials said the flag, placed on the tiny, dung-covered spit of land between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, symbolized a victory over the Islamic State.
NANTUCKET, Mass. — Massachusetts officials yesterday sealed their claim to a small island south of Cape Cod with a state flag. They said that by their planting of the flag, they proved the existence of the island, which federal officials have not been able to locate.
The state wants control of the channel to protect the environment against possible oil drilling and to preserve the area for recreational use. The end of the fight, which has lasted 10 years, could have implications for other states that try to claim coastal and channel rights.
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Locally, today will be hot with highs in the upper 90s. South to southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be fair with lows in the low to mid-70s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the low to mid-90s.
Unions seek OK of AT&T proposal
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — With a tentative national agreement in hand, negotiators sought yesterday to reach local agreements that could end the 16-day nationwide telephone strike by midweek.
The national pact, designed to last three years, is subject to ratification by the rank and file, but union leaders said 675,000 striking operators and technicians could be back on the job Thursday morning if local agreements are reached with 34 bargaining units of the Communications Workers of America.
CWA spokesman Duayne Trecker said yesterday that the local bargaining units had been asked to wrap up individual negotiations by 11:30 p.m.
"We hope to have local negotiations wrapped up by midnight Wednesday and we will call an end to this strike just
"ASSUMING THOSE LOCAL
contracts are completed
members are committed."
But, appearing on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" yesterday, Watts said, "If the company attempts at the last minute to take away some benefits from the local level, that undoubtedly would give us a very serious problem."
Watts said no "real roadblocks" seemed likely in the local bargaining
as quickly as possible "CWA President Glen Watts said."
As soon as the local issues are resolved, officials said, the contracts will be printed and offered to the client. The deadline for formal approval is Oct. 8.
OFFICIALS OF THE CWA, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Telecommunications International unions signed the national pact with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. on Sunday.
Members of the CWA, which represents 325,000 phone workers, and two other unions struck the unions and executives have filled in for the strikers, and
services seemed to operate well despite delays in installations, repairs and maintenance.
The pact provides for pay raises averaging 16.4 percent over the next three years and contains a number of job security provisions sought by workers concerned about the court-ordered breakup of AT&T.
AT&T Vice President Rex Reed called the agreement a "balanced settlement" but said it could result in higher telephone rates.
"Wage increases do impact on phone rates, he told reporters. But he said it is not the case."
uctivity might enable the Bell System to hold down costs.
WATTS SAID HE expected 'pro-du-
sive' increases sufficiently to cover
the need for equipment.
He estimated that the contract had $3 billion worth of improvements. The contract would raise the current average hourly base wage of $12.33 to $16.59.
"Indirectly, I suppose, there would be some small consideration in rates as far as this increase is concerned, but by and large wages are not a significant matter in rates in our industry," the union leader said.
AT&T spokesman Charles Dynes called the agreement "an excellent
"It's good for the company, good for the workers and it's good for the customers," Dynes said.
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