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October 17, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily
KANSAN
Workers at Disneyland vote to accept contract
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Striking Disneyland workers voted last night to accept a new contract that contains a two-year wage freeze, ending a three-week walkout at the Magic Kingdom.
The divided rank-and file voted 696-292 to accept the contract, and will return to work today.
"There's a real mixed reading out there," labor negotiator Bob Gahle said after addressing a packed union hall to recommend ratification of the proposal, which ended a three-week strike by ride operators and other workers.
Labor leaders said the proposal includes a two-year wage freeze for the 1,800 union members and "concessions" by Discounts on medical benefits and subcontracting.
Major banks lower prime rate
NEW YORK — Most of the nation's major banks, headed by Citibank of New York, lowered their prime lending rate yesterday to $12.4% from $12.9%, declining to match a $12.4% prime posted by Bankers Trust.
In addition to Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty Trust, Marine Midland and Chemical Bank, First National Bank of Chicago and Bank of Boston adopted a base lending rate of $12^{th}$ percent.
The banks' move on the prime lending rate is a lagging reaction to a sharp drop in their cost of money since early September.
United Press International
Boat accident leaves 100 dead
LAGOS, Nigeria — More than 100 people drowned Sunday when a river ferry capsized in western Nigeria. Ondo state government officials said yesterday.
A report in the state-run Daily Sketch newspaper said the boat had been traveling to Lagos when it capsized and sank early Sunday morning about 150 miles west of the capital. The newspaper said more than 100 people drowned.
Ugliest pair on campus picked
INDIANA, Pa. — The lucky woman picked for a blind date with Bruce Morgan will show up for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania on Saturday at Saturday Saturdays. Saturday bag a over her head.
Morgan and Katie Neidhold, the lucky woman, are the winners of contests to pick the ughest college man and woman. Their blind date is armed at raising money for the family of Amanda Starry, 3, of Indiana, Pa., who has spinal meningitis.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
DENVER — People work to free a pickup truck from about orado yesterday, causing accidents and closing schools and 16 inches of snow in suburban Denver. A blizzard struck Col- businesses.
Rebel leader criticizes peace talks
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A rebel leader yesterday accused the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador of "flatly" refusing a cease-fire offer made during Monday's peace talks and ignoring a chance to end five years of civil war.
The two sides did agree to form a commission to hold ongoing peace negotiations, and another meeting was scheduled for November.
Other leaders contradicted rebel leader Guillermo Manuel Ungo's statement, saying
it was "ridiculous" to think the country's five guerrilla armies would stop fighting immediately.
the main achievement of Monday's talks was "the government recognized for the first time that we are a legitimate power." He also said the Reagan administration backed the dialogue solely "to gain time" until 1986, when Gen. Paul Gorman, head of the U.S.
CALM WAS REPORTED on El Salvador's military fronts yesterday, but guerrillas said they planned to proceed with a drive to shut down transport on major highways to-morrow.
Southern Command based in Panama, has predicted the Salvadoran army will be strong enough to defeat the rebels.
Ungo, who returned to his exile home in
Ungo was one of six rebel leaders who met Monday with a five-member government delegation led by President Jose Napoleon Duarte for a peace summit in La Palma, a mountain village 43 miles north of San Salvador.
Rebel Commander Fermin Cienfuegos said
Panama after the talks, said during an interview by Colombian radio that the rebels had offered a ceasefire "but the answer of the government was to refuse our proposal."
Snowstorm hits Denver and region
By United Press International
A surprise autumn blizzard buried eastern Colorado under as much as 3 feet of snow and chest-high drifts yesterday, stranding travellers in the city and businesses in Denver and nearby communities.
Snow also swept across the border into western Kansas yesterday, where it fell most of the day. Goodland received four inches of snow. The snowfall ended yesterday afternoon except for in the Hill City area. Snow fell from east of a line from Goondawal to Leoit to Garden City and west of a line from Stockton to Hays to Ness City.
The blizzard, spiked by 45-mph winds, was part of a massive storm system that stretched from southern Idaho to western Nebraska.
Lt. Ron Adams of the Colorado State Patrol, who has worked five years in the Colorado mountains, said the storm was "as bad as I've ever seen it for this time of year."
Schools throughout the six-county Denver metropolitan area were closed, and many businesses told non-emotional employees to stay home. Gov. Richard Lamm declared a "snow day" and gave many state workers the day off.
The storm grounded traffic at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, one of the nation's busiest airports.
Interstate 70, the main east-west artery through Colorado, was closed in both directions from Denver. Interstate 25 was closed southbound from Denver and many smaller highways in eastern Colorado were impassable.
Three-foot drifts buried sections of the Denver area. The Regional Transportation District said conditions were "not conducive to operations" and were to be evaluated on main streets cleared by snowplows.
South of the snowbelt, wild storms spawned tornadoes and hail as large as baseballs. Two people were injured and dozens of homes were destroyed by twisters that skipped across northwestern Arkansas.
Three twisters damaged buildings and uprooted trees in the Arkansas towns of Dora, Summers and Cedarville. Baseball-scaled hair bombarded West Fork, Ark., and hailstones pelted portions of western Nebraska and Missouri.
Five people were injured, one critically, by a tornado accompanied by heavy rains that touched down in two rural southwest Missouri towns on the Webster-Christian county line, damaging at least 51 homes.